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Gr 7 Up—Featuring a documentary filming style (no narration), hip music, important statistics, and interviews with teens, teachers, and medical professionals, this program underscores the dangers of distracted driving...
PreS-Gr 3—Laurie Berkner's lively music video features 16 participatory movement songs and enthusiastic multiethnic youngsters dancing and moving along to the beat, sometimes dressed in appropriate costumes...
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...
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...
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 9 Up—The programs in this series follow Jean-Michel Cousteau and his diving team across the globe as they study a wide range of animals and ecosystems...
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