Discover that the way we live depends on our environment. From valleys and foothills to high mountain ridges, learn how communities and people adapt to the different features of the Earth. Understand the kind of work and lives people must lead to adapt to different levels of rainfall, temperature, and natural resources. (Guide available online)
Producers: SchoolMedia, Inc.
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Understanding Maps: Key to Everywhere
Relate the three-dimensional world in which we live to the two-dimensional world of maps by taking a plane ride over a neighborhood and translating the view onto a flat map. This program demonstrates the points on a compass, how different types of maps show different things, what symbols and scales are, and what a globe is. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) What is a map? (3) Direction (4) Distance (5) Different maps show different things (6) symbols (7) Trip planning (8) Grid maps (9) globes (10) compass (11) Review and Conclusion.
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Globes & Us
Learn about latitude and longitude, grids, degrees, minutes, seconds, time zones, scale, legends, keys, cardinal and intermediate directions, hemispheres, and more. Live action and animation help simplify these concepts. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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The Five Themes of Geography
Join five enthusiastic students in their high-tech “Social Studies Lab” to learn about the five themes of geography: Location, Place, Human-Environment Interactions, Movement, and Regions. Visit locations around the world to understand how geographers study the earth and the people who live here. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Maps: Types, Symbols, and Terms
Learn about the world of information available to map readers. Understand the common and practical uses of maps – from finding one’s way across town to finding the yearly rainfall in England. See examples of how symbols on a map stand for real features. Recognize relief, topographical, political, historical, population, and many other kinds of maps. Learn how grids are used on both globes and maps to find locations – and much more! DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Landforms #1
Take a ride in a “traveling machine” to learn about the form and function of landforms. Appreciate the beauty and utility of the world’s natural features, and see how communities are made unique by the landforms around them. Highlights oceans, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, plains, valleys, plateaus, deserts, islands, and more! DVD features include interactive quiz, slide show, video “clips” aligned to standards, on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Mountains,(3) Hill (4) valleys (5) Bodies of water (6) lakes (7) Land near water (8) Desert Landforms (9) Plains (10) Review and Conclusion.
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The Importance of Water
Students learn that water is essential to life. Discover many places that water can be found on Earth, and learn about the different forms of water in the ground and in the air. Follow the water cycle, and learn how clouds form. Understand many ways we use water including bathing, cooking, transportation, and food production. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Rocks: The Solid Earth Materials #1
With the help from a Rock Wizard and a little imagination, students discover that the Earth is made up of rocks, and rocks are made of minerals. Discover the three ways rocks are formed and many of the properties of rocks and minerals – like size, shape, color, and texture. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Uses of Rocks and Minerals
The rocks and minerals that form within the Earth are used to make many important materials. Watch how rocks are mined, processed, and then constructed into glass, cement, bricks, houses, roads, and other objects used in our everyday lives. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) What is a rock? What is a mineral (3) building materials and glass (4) Transportation (5) Gemstones (6) History of Rocks and Minerals (7) How rocks and minerals are taken from earth (8) Rocks that don’t need to be processed (9) Rocks and minerals that have to be combined to be used (10) Mining (11) Review.
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Taking Care of Our Earth
Students learn to care about their environment with the help of four animated characters as they take a tour of a landfill. Natural resources are identified and shown as students learn how important it is to conserve them. They also discover how reducing, reusing, and recycling benefit our environment, and how air and water pollution can hurt it. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.