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Gr 9 Up—Students learn about the components of a solid resume and engaging cover letter and how to avoid common pitfalls...
Gr 2—6—Using still photos, live-action footage, and computer animation, this film briefly describes why plants are important to people, plant parts and functions, how different plants reproduce, their life cycle, and plant uses...
Gr 7 Up—Hazing has evolved from harmless pranks to physical, emotional, and sexual harassment and abuse as a result of the degrading and demeaning activities that have become part of this rite of passage...
PreS-K—While the animal mascots—Doodle Rooster, Bell Cow, and Harvey Horse—are rather lackluster and animated with very basic, limited movements, the film makes up for that shortcoming with a variety of games and footage of all kinds of working tractors, farms, farm animals, and children doing chores and having fun...
Gr 9 Up—As the film opens, Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone (Farrar, Straus, 2007), an extraordinary memoir about a boy growing up during Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s and the plight of child soldiers, shares his humanitarian outlook before a spellbound audience...
Gr 7 Up—Paulette Mitchell, cookbook author, narrates a short history and current status of Hong Kong, Zhujiajiao (the Venice of China), and Shanghai while wandering through the streets and food markets with one of the locals she interviews in an extra segment...
PreS-K—Created by composer Belinda Takahashi, this production introduces young children to the musical concepts of tempo (allegro/adagio), dynamics (forte/piano), and style (legato/staccato)...
Gr 7 Up—Did you know that drivers on cell phones have the same risk of causing fatalities as drunk drivers? This sobering public service film offers illuminating new research on the subject of distracted driving, which increasingly endangers teens' lives...
Gr 8 Up—The potential consequences of sexting, including social notoriety, blackmail, suspension or expulsion from school, arrest, and felony charges in some states are candidly explained The film begins with a dramatization of a girl sexting a photo of herself and its disastrous consequences...
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