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.
Subjects: Life Science
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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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Animal Features and their Functions
Heads, tails, wings, feathers, fur, and claws. Discover how these and other parts of animals help them live in different habitats. Learn how to tell what kind of food an animal eats, based on the shape of its teeth. See that the different parts of animals help us determine where and how they live. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Animal Body Coverings (3) Movement (4) Eating (5) Animals and People are different.
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Amphibians, Fish & Reptiles
Go underwater to witness how over 20,000 different kinds of fish live. Visit the habitats of frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, and more. Learn how to distinguish between these three types of animals with this informative and interesting lesson. 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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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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Habitats: Homes for Living Things
Peek into the habitats of different kinds of animals to see how they meet their needs. Visit a pond, a desert, a forest, a rainforest, and other habitats to discover how different animals and plants survive and thrive in these unique environments. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Classification of Living Things
A routine castle tour turns enchanting when King Philip shows up to teach a lesson in classification. Using examples from his castle, mnemonics for memorizing the 7 levels of classification, microscopic footage, and animation, King Philip makes sense of difficult concepts. From simple examples to an exploration of each of the five kingdoms, this tour provides a concrete foundation for a complex subject. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) System of Classification (3) The Five Kingdoms (4) Moneran Kingdom (5) Protists (6) Fungi (7) Plant Kingdom (8) Animal Kingdom (9) Review.