See Kelso’s Choice in Action! Short, true-to-life vignettes help students see how kids just like them use Kelso’s Choices to solve everyday problems. The video is presented in two separate sections: Grades K-3 hosted by Kelso himself using Kelso’s Choice Wheel. Grades 4-5 hosted by a young teen using the brand new K.C.’s Wheel – a more developmentally appropriate wheel for pre-teens. Each section presents five different opportunities for kids to see KELSO IN ACTION.
Languages: English
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Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Spring Tide Farm
Jessie and Rebecca MacInnis are sisters and first-generation farmers and together they operate Spring Tide Farm, where they focus on mixed vegetable and cut flower production, growing in fields and greenhouses for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members, farmer’s market, and wholesale. Their farm is certified organic and they strive to adhere to the principles of agroecology. The film showcases their farming practices and discusses the importance of community.
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Independent Lens: A Fish Story – Public Performance
Fish Story is the tale of two women in a battle for the ocean. Angela Sanfilippo and Shareen Davis, born into fishing families, both married men who make a living from the sea. But their way of life is threatened when environmental organizations file a lawsuit that could put hundreds of fishermen out of business. With heartache and humor, this story finds the women at the center of a political storm as they try to save both fish and fishermen.
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Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Taproot Farm
TapRoot Farms is a mixed veggies, fruit and livestock farm (free-range hens for eggs, and pastured animals for meat and wool) using organic, agroecological and regenerative practices. The film discusses sustainable farming practices, sheep shearing and migrant workers.
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Depth of Field – Films About Farming – La Coopérative Ferme Terre Partagée
The Coopérative Ferme Terre Partagée is a worker cooperative in Rogersville, New Brunswick. Founded by four members in 2018, it produces organic vegetables and embraces farming that is in relationship with the land. Its products are sold almost entirely through organic baskets and local markets. Its members see agriculture as a political gesture that allows participation in an international movement of agroecology and that aims at the food sovereignty of communities.
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Depth of Field – Films About Farming – The Toasa Cooperative Ltd
The Toasa Cooperative Ltd is a worker-owned cooperative market garden that works to create a local, sustainable food system and to build community. The film showcases the co-operative model (benefits and challenges) and the goals of the farm.
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Fundamental Mathematics Super Pack
A great review for all skill levels. This essential math series will tell you everything you need to know about the fundamentals of integers, measurement, geometry, graphing, and solving those tricky word problems.
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Jill Tarter: Life, the Universe and SETI
Hollywood movies about aliens abound, but do they really exist? The real scientific search for life elsewhere in the cosmos is just as exciting as the “reel” version. SETI is at the forefront of this research and plans to extend even further out into the galaxy, looking for evidence of someone else’s technology. In coming decades, scientists will take a close look at places within our solar system where liquid water may exist and harbour life. Dr. Jill Tarter describes this research that some call the “archaeology of the future.”
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Leonard Susskind: The Black Hole Wars
The strange paradoxes and puzzles of the quantum behaviour of black holes and the things that fall into them led to a spirited battle of ideas between Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind and other scientists. Resolving the debate may change the entire current understanding of space, time, matter and information – is the whole world, for example, a quantum hologram?
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Jay Melosh: Death of the Dinos
Sixty-five million years ago dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Without warning, their world was swept away by an asteroid. Although the fact of this impact is established beyond doubt, how did it wipe out such a large fraction of the Earth’s inhabitants? Recent studies reveal disastrous effects including global wildfires, acid rain, ozone depletion and million-year long climatic changes. Concerns about the possibility of future impacts has led to a worldwide program to identify threatening asteroids and generated discussion on how to deflect an asteroid if one is found.