This program talks to celebrated children’s writer, Margaret Clark, about sentences and paragraphs. Margaret reads from her books to illustrate key points and receives help from a leading young Melbourne comedian and mime artist, Richard Jones. The program is funny, highly informative and definitely not boring!
Producers: VEA Group Pty Ltd
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Our Earth in Motion
Why does the sun rise in the east? Why does the moon change shape? How do tides happen? This program explains in detail how the Earth and the Moon move with respect to each other and the Sun, why we have day and night and different time zones. Why we have four seasons every year, two tides and the different phases of the moon. This program will enhance student understanding of key concepts that are effectively demonstrated through clear graphics and animation.
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Pushing the Limits: In Athletic Performance
In 1903, W.G.George ran one mile in a world record time of 4 minutes, 12 seconds. His coach said “the probability is that this record will never be broken.” In 1954, both Roger Bannister and John Landy broke the “four minute mile” and to this day, these records continue to be broken. This program follows the performance of today’s record-breakers in distance running in order to understand the fundamental question: is there a limit to human athletic performance? Interviews with Dick Telford, Craig Mottram, Kerryn McCann and Nick Harrison cover the following topics: Training and diet, Coaching, Psychology, Money, Drugs, Male / female differences and health risks.
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Our People: Our Business: An Overview of the Human Resource Management Function
This program introduces human resource management as part of the total process of successful business management, including: Defining the HR function; Describing the HR role in the organization; Identifying factors that influence HR.
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Reality Bites!: Sex, STDs, and Contraception
This program explores the important issues for modern teenagers. Understanding sex and sexuality is a key component addressed in the program, as is decision making, being sexually active, practicing safe sex, and dealing with unwanted pregnancies.
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Party Drugs
So-called ‘party drugs’ such as Ecstasy, Speed and GHB fuel endless nights of dancing at Australian clubs, parties and music festivals. Following the true story of a 21-year-old student named Emma, this program looks at the short and long term effects of these drugs, ways people can minimize harm if using party drugs, and places people can access further information. Experts featured include Dr Cameron Duff of the Australian Drug Foundation; Alan Eade of the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and Andrew Bruun of the Youth Substance Abuse Service.
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Resilience: Bouncing Back
Best mates Ange and Tom the puppet, explore what it means to be resilient. Based on the work of leading psychologist Emmy Werner, the program suggests that people who are resilient have: 1) someone who cares for them 2) something to do and 3) something to hope for. While the issues are deep and significant, the program is fast, bright and entertaining, giving young people handy tips on: anger management, problem solving, being assertive (‘I messages’), goal setting and having a positive attitude. Interspersed with Tom and Ange’s exploration of resilience are comments from young people themselves. This is an engaging program that will help students look positively to the future.
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Personal Hygiene
This program explores issues associated with young people and personal hygiene. It examines ways of achieving and maintaining healthy hygiene practices and focuses on keeping the skin clean, looking after hair, dental hygiene, nasal care and hand washing. A separate section at the end of the program covers aspects of personal hygiene during menstruation. The program features comments from Department of Human Services, Dr Rosemary Lester, and dental hygiene recommendations from Dr Meredith Metia on behalf of the Australian Dental Association. This program is an excellent resource on personal hygiene. This program explores issues associated with young people and personal hygiene. It examines ways …
In this correspondence course, students learn how to make a realistic assessment of personal qualities and attributes, develop self discipline and self belief, and maximize the potential that is present inside each and every one of us.
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Risky Situations
This program is about a range of risky situations that can typically confront teenagers of a lower high school age. Risk is defined, and the concept of negative and positive consequences is explored. Sections covered by the program include: what are risky situations; how do we get into them; what are the likely negative risky situations young people are faced with; what are the consequences of our choices and strategies for dealing with risky situations. The material is covered using acted scenarios – one depicting a shoplifting scene and the other depicting a party where alcohol and cigarettes are being consumed by minors. For both scenarios, a range of endings and therefore consequences is acted out, which contrasts the different outcomes according to the decisions made by the people involved. The program also uses a young people’s forum to thrash out some of the issues covered, where the participants give a range of responses to different questions.
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Personal Identity: Tattoos, Body Piercing, Art, Culture and Self Expression
Body art and adornment have been used by people and cultures to express themselves as individuals and as a function of social bonding for tens of thousands of years. This program looks at the growing popularity and acceptance of tattoos and body piercing and how it is frequently used as an expression of personal identity. The program provides an overview of the history of body decoration and speaks to a range of people who talk about what it means to them personally. The program also looks at the intersections between graphic design, graffiti, tattooing, technology and the design of needles and jewellery. The program considers the similarities in body beautification and modification which can be seen in fashion, fitness regimes and body building, cosmetic surgery, dieting and liposuction.