Students learn about simple metamorphosis, complete metamorphosis, and the entire insect lifecycle. Includes live, close-up footage of a painted lady butterfly, waxworm moth, silkworm, milkweed bug, and more. Detailed animations give students a unique perspective of the world’s largest animal group. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction/Theme (2) The Amazing Lives of Insects (3) Simple Metamorphosis (4) Complete metamorphosis (5) Metamorphosis review (6) Life Cycle.
Languages: English
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Insects
Students discover what characteristics make insects different from all other animals. Learn that there are more insects than any other kind of animal on Earth. Watch the ways that special body parts help insects meet their needs for food, water, air, and shelter. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Identifying Insects (2) Three Body Parts (3) The Exoskeleton (4) Reproduction.
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Animal Lifecycles
Children learn that living things grow and change. They learn to compare animal parents and babies. They see that some animal babies do not look like their parents. From tadpole to frog, egg to chicken, caterpillar to butterfly, and puppy to dog, students are introduced to and learn the stages of the life cycles of animals. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Food Chain Mystery
Follow the flow of energy through the food chain from the sun to producers, consumers, and decomposers. Vivid animations use a linear food chain and an energy pyramid to demonstrate how energy passes through the food chain. Other concepts include photosynthesis, predator-prey relationships, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Energy in habitats (3) Plants (4) Animals (5) Producers and Consumers (6) Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores (7) Decomposers (8) More food chains (9) Energy pyramid and food web (10) Review (11) Conclusion.
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Weathering and Erosion
The surface of the land has undergone many changes over its history. Water, rain, snow, and wind – they all continually shape and form the Earth. Take students on a journey to discover how physical weathering, chemical weathering, and erosion occur. Identify that the destructive forces of erosion and weathering are slow processes that change the surface of the earth. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Geographical Features: Landforms
Combining stunning NASA and live footage with state-of-the-art animation, gives students a clear understanding of the physical features that shape our earth. Terms like escarpment, plateau, butte, outlier, and atoll are shown in their natural states with examples highlighted on an animated globe. Learn the names of these landforms and where they are found. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Geographical Features: Bodies of Water
From the largest bodies of water – the oceans – to tiny streams and tributaries, students recognize the diversity of naturally occurring sources of water. Stunning NASA and live footage show seas, bays, lagoons, and other bodies of water, while examples of their locations are highlighted on an animated globe. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction/ Oceans. Produced by Mazzarella Productions
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The Water Cycle
With the help of Luke Warm, a weatherman on the water channel, two young baseball players come to understand why the big game might be rained out as they are introduced to the key elements that make up and affect the water cycle. They discover the process by which the Earth’s water supply has been recycled over millions of years, centering on three stages: evaporation, condensation and precipitation. They follow the trail that water takes after it falls from the sky and passes through each of these three stages. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Desert Habitats
Take a video field trip to some of the driest regions of the Earth to learn how different plants and animals adapt to little rainfall and extremes in temperature. Discover how different animals find food, water, and shelter. See the characteristics that allow desert life to thrive. Discover how rainfall and differences in temperature between day and night affect life in the desert. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) What is a habitat? (2) What is a desert? (3) Extreme temperatures (4) Plants survive in the desert (5) Precipitation (6) Animals survive in the desert (7) High desert (8) Sandy desert (9) Valley desert (10) Review and Conclusion.
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Rocks: The Solid Earth Materials #2
Travel deep inside the Earth to discover how rocks and minerals are formed, to learn about the three types of rock, and to understand how rocks change over time through weathering and erosion. See the entire rock cycle and learn how geologists determine the properties of rocks. Learn about the structure and composition of minerals. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Introduction to geology (3) Rocks (4) Minerals (5) Gemstones (6) Rock formation (7) Weathering and erosion (8) The rock cycle (9) Review and Conclusion.