Learn about the people who make or grow the goods we need – production workers. See how these workers make trucks and houses and grow food for the community. Understand simple explanations of the terms goods and services, consumers, income, and learn why people work. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) People work to earn money (3) Products that workers make (4) Homes are products (5) Artists are production workers (6) People choose their work for different reasons (7) Cooperative companies (8) Review.
Languages: English
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Everybody Needs Clothing
Discover that clothes are needed to retain body heat and to protect against the sun. Learn about the materials that make clothing, how cloth was made in the past with a spinning wheel and loom, and how it is made today in automated cloth mills. See how clothing has changed throughout the ages and how people wear different clothes as needed – bathing suits for swimming, special clothing for fire fighting, etc. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Everybody Needs Food
Food is one of the four basic needs of families. Everybody needs food whether they live in an arid desert or a snow-covered forest, and what they eat is largely determined by where they live. Learn that food doesn’t magically appear in a supermarket but comes from farms, ranches, the sea, etc. and that halfway around the world a “supermarket” might be an open-air marketplace without refrigeration where people must buy food daily. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Everybody Needs Shelter
Understand that shelter is one of the four basic needs of families, and witness dozens of human shelters – igloos to mansions – from equator to poles and sea to mountaintop. Learn how shelters protect families from the elements and how shelters are often built with materials that are available locally. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Civil War
Witness the conflict between North and South and the South’s eventual secession that led to a rush to arms, pitting countryman against countryman. This program utilizes exciting re-enactments, artifacts, and interviews to explore key battles of the Civil War, life on the Northern and Southern home fronts, and the role of African Americans in the war. Concludes with the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the Confederacy. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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How Our Economy Works: All About Earning and Spending Money
During this engaging video, students will learn that people work to earn money so that they can satisfy their basic needs and wants, and that everything we spend money on is either for goods or services. They learn what a job is and the difference between production workers and service workers. They are introduced to the concepts of saving and banks. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Producers (2) Income (3) goods and services (4) Consumers (5) Smart choices (6) Saving money (7) Wasting money (8) Review.
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Causes of the Civil War
This compelling program reveals how the interests of the industrial North and the agricultural South (the Cotton Belt) came to clash over critical issues such as plantation slavery, and how these issues eventually led to the secession of the southern states. It journeys along the Underground Railroad, highlighting the resistance of slavery, and introduces viewers to an American hero, Abraham Lincoln, and his momentous political and social vision. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Learning about Money
With the help of two friends, students learn that money has value and comes in many denominations (from a penny to a 100-dollar bill). Students will go inside one of our country’s mints to discover how coins are made. Lastly, they will learn that every country has its own unique money and see some of the currencies used in different countries today. (1) Introduction (2) History of money (3) Currency (4) Where is money made? (5) How coins are different (6) Paper currency (7) Value (8) Review (99) End
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Expedition of Lewis and Clark: 1804-1806
Witness Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the West, complete with diary excerpts, encounters with Native Americans, the beautiful and threatening landscape, and a summary of their objectives and accomplishments. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Early Explorers: The Age of Discovery
Venture into the unknown with young Diego as he follows the footsteps of his ancestors as they explore the New World of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages across the fearsome seas and the arduous treks across the rugged landscapes open a new world to Diego as it is related to him in a letter from another explorer, his NASA astronaut father. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.