Discover the unique environment where the water meets the land that includes rocky and sandy shores, as well as tide pools, home to crabs, barnacles, and starfish. Demonstrates how tides and waves affect the other species that live in, on, and out of the water. Students discover the amazing living habitat of the reef. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Physical features (3) Adaptation (4) Sources of food (5) Shoreline (6) Shoreline Zones (7) Shoreline adaptation (8) Reef Habitat (9) Reef adaptations (10) Review and conclusion.
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Mammals #1
Introduce students to mammals and the things that make them different from other groups of animals. Discover the different parts of mammals such as backbones, fur or hair, claws, teeth, and horns, and see how these special body parts help them survive in their habitats. (1) Introduction (2) Mammals feed their babies mother’s milk (3) Mammals give birth to their young (4) Mammals are warm blooded (5) Mammal coverings (6) bats (7) senses (8) breathing (99) End (10) Food (11) Mammals on the move (12) Review (13) Credit
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Animal Adaptations
Welcome to Camp Wilderness! Join Counselor Tom and the campers of Team Five as they travel through the animal kingdom and learn about the adaptations animals have to make in order to live and prosper. This program covers both the physical and behavioral adaptations of animals in regards to getting food, water, oxygen, protection from predators, shelter, and reproduction. Students will learn just how important adaptation is in the survival of all animal species. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Basic Needs (3) Physical and behavioral adaptations (4) Adaptations to get food (5) Adaptations to get water (6) Adaptations to get oxygen (7) Adaptation to climate (8) Adaptation for protection from predators (9) Adaptations for reproduction (10) Symbiosis (11) Review
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Farm Animals: A First Look
With the help of some barn yard friends children will recognize that mammals are born alive, get milk from their mothers and grow to adulthood. Students will visit a working farm and learn about cows, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens, ducks, goats, and even cats and dogs. A perfect introduction to farm animals, this video explains what the male, female, and baby of each species are called, and recognize that baby animals always grow up to be the same kind of animal as their parents. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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The Executive Branch
Students learn how the Constitution established the Executive Branch and provided for the separation of powers and the relationship of the Executive Branch to the Legislative and Judicial Branches of the federal government. The powers granted to the Executive Branch are covered as well as the requirements for holding the office of President. Also, explains how the Presidency has evolved in terms of its influence and exercise of power since the Constitution was ratified.
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The Judicial Branch
The origins of the Judicial Branch and Supreme Court are addressed here, also an examination of the Supreme Court’s power to influence American history and society in profound ways. It shows how the exercise of this power has often been controversial and that the philosophy of the court can change as different justices are appointed and because of the political and social climates of the time. The supreme Court’s influence on other branches of the federal government is also revealed.
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Production Workers: And the Goods They Make
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.
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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.