This video provides an historical background to population growth and presents different perspectives on how many people the earth’s resources can support. Through sample studies, the issues surrounding population change and growth are explored: India, fertility rates & wealth, education, status of women; Rwanda, genocide, mass migration, refugee camps; China, the One Child Policy & population control.
Languages: English
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Canada and World War I
For many, WW1 marks the beginning of nationhood. But the cost to Canada was high – nearly one in ten of her soldiers was killed. The moving story of Canada at war and on the home front is told using soldiers’ letters, period songs, archival footage, photographs and posters. Topics include: trench warfare, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendale, women’s role, recruitment and conscription and casualties.
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Canada and World War 2
This best-selling video looks at Canada’s involvement in the Second World War. Topics include declaration of war; Canadians at war on land, sea and air; the fall of Hong Kong, Dieppe, campaigns in Italy and France, the battle for the Atlantic; the home front – war economy, women’s role, domestic politics, conscription issues, and internment of Japanese-Canadians.
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World Water Resources
CHINA: The 3 Gorges Dam – will be the largest in the world. It will involve the forced relocation of over 1 million people, and the destruction of hundreds of cultural artifacts and heritage sites. ISRAEL: water conflict – the situation between Israel and Jordan, conservation strategies employed in an arid land. AUSTRALIA – a unique wastewater treatment project poses one solution. Can we feed the world’s growing population without irrigation?
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F.A.P. – Psychological Factors
The things that go on in an athlete’s mind can greatly affect their physical performance. Two of the key psychological factors affecting performance are the athlete’s motivation and their ability to manage their level of anxiety and arousal. These factors are examined in detail under the following headings: Motivation – intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; positive and negative motivation; reinforcement: social, material and internal. Anxiety, arousal and the inverted u hypothesis. Managing anxiety – concentration skills; mental rehearsal; visualisation; relaxation; goal setting.
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The Western Front – WW1
This video continues on from “The Causes of WW1”. The video concentrates on the Western Front where all the major combatants believed the war would be won or lost. After four years of the bloodiest conflict the world had seen, and after nine million casualties, it was won by the Entente. Topics include Schlieffen plan, the miracle of the Marne, mobility gives way to entrenchment, entrenchment leads to the slaughter of 1916/17, Verdun, Somme, Ypres, life in the trenches, the March 1918 offensive, and the collapse of the Central Powers.
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Wetlands
The nature of wetlands are defined and we look at the location of wetlands throughout the world. In addition, the video examines in detail a wetland area located next door to the site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Being surrounded by one of the world’s major cities, the problems which have plagued Homebush Bay, as well as the solutions now being implemented, are typical of many wetland areas worldwide.
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The Life Cycle of Wasps and Bees
Wasps and bumblebees have a special type of social system. Their colonies are made up of many sterile female workers, who care for the offspring of one or a few fertile queens. Topics include after emerging from hibernation, the queen starts the new colony by herself; female workers are produced and start to forage; unfertilized eggs (males) are laid; males and new queen emerge, the colony disintegrates and the new queens hibernate.
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Waves in the Ocean (Senior)
This is a remake of the best-selling 1985 video of the same name. Updated with graphics/animation, exciting new footage and a specific science/physics focus, this film provides an excellent summary of the nature of waves, as illustrated by waves in the ocean. Topics covered include: how waves are formed by the wind; elliptical paths of water particles in a wave; wave characteristics – amplitude, wave height, wavelength, period, speed, frequency; interference; reflection; refraction; diffraction; translatory waves; why & how waves break.
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Waves in the Ocean (Junior)
An inspirational film showing the beauty and order behind the movement of the ocean wave. Topics include how waves are formed by the wind; eliptical paths of water particles in a wave; reflection off cliffs; bending by shallow water; sets; how to catch a wave.