Summary: Focusing on techniques suggested by parents, teachers, and childcare professionals, this program features strategies for dealing with emotional and behavioral challenges in young children. The primary topic is encouraging friendships, while several activities designed to channel aggression and address frustrations are also included. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Spotlighting techniques provided by parents, teachers, and childcare professionals, this program features helpful strategies for early childhood education. Topics include the importance of art, science projects in the home, integrating math activities, and learning through building with blocks. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Using ideas from parents, teachers, and childcare providers, this program presents down-to-earth methods for effective early childhood education. Topics include creating a print-rich environment, making story time a regular practice, encouraging writing skills, implementing literacy activities, and fostering language development. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Using approaches from parents, teachers, and childcare providers, this program presents reliable methods for addressing childhood emotions and behavior problems. Topics include conflict resolution, self-control, tantrums, positive discipline, separation anxiety, sharing, self-esteem, emotional concepts, temperament, and overcoming isolation. Several activities are illustrated. Hosted by former...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: It's a little play with all the big subjects in it, wrote Thornton Wilder in a 1937 letter to Gertrude Stein about what has become his most renowned and frequently performed work. Set at the turn of the 20th century, Our Town reveals the ordinary lives of the people in the small town of Grover's Corners, U.S.A. The play's themes of love and marriage, the transitory nature of existence, and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: It might seem contradictory, but decisions about how to end a company are just as important as the dreams that give birth to it. There may even be reasons that make a pre-planned exit strategy mandatory, such as the specific needs of investors. This video explores various end-game scenarios for business owners, helping to clarify long-term goals for anyone on the verge of creating a company...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Philosopher and scientist Dan Dennett argues that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes and are not what we traditionally think they are. In this TEDTalk, Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. “Dan Dennett is our best current philosopher,” says AI...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, the time is 1901 and the place is America's collective memory. But Thornton Wilder's Our Town is not the sentimental nostalgia piece most people perceive. This program hosted by Eli Wallach offers wide-ranging and extraordinarily deep insights into the play from those who arguably know it best: Our Town alumni who over the years have brought the play to life...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: More and more Americans are looking for opportunities to exert some measure of control over where and how they die. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families, and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong - a premise he supports with intriguing research as well as his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. In this TEDTalk, Gilbert presents findings from his exploration of satisfaction and contentment, sharing simple experiments that viewers can apply to their own lives....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this fascinating and entertaining film, eminent Harvard scholar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., guides viewers through the process of creating their own family histories, based on the experience of discovering his own ancestors and those of the TV pioneer, educator, and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey. Richly illustrated with clips from the popular PBS documentary, Oprah’s Roots: An African American...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Are your students getting ready to "take off" and live on their own? Anthony is! In this video, he asks a pilot, his father, and his friends for advice on how to make moving away a successful experience. In the process, viewers will get an overview of things to consider as they make their own plans: budgeting, time management, adjustment issues, support systems, and more. Correlates to all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In this program, the orchestra uses lighthearted cafe music from the Milhaud ballet set in a Paris nightclub to illustrate how the use of various keys adds color to the musical landscape. Different instruments, performing the pieces in major and minor keys, give listeners a firsthand glimpse into how key changes add interest to music.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Would the collapse of the Soviet Union have been possible without American sponsorship of Islamic fundamentalism? Did U.S. policies pave the way for 9/11? Does the American media help sustain Osama Bin Laden’s popularity? This documentary examines those questions, studying the machinations of key players—the CIA, Bin Laden, Afghani mujahideen and opium traders, Presidents Carter and Reagan, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Boss is for young people who love a challenge, are doers, and have lots of energy. The BIZ WHIZ QUIZ will help them identify characteristics that are necessary if they want to be in charge. Boss talks about the various hats people who own a business must wear, such as a business planning hat and a marketing hat. Entrepreneurs of all ages offer insightful hints into a variety of businesses,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A job interview is a crucial opportunity to shine-but before that happens, a would-be employee needs to sell his or her abilities in writing. This program helps students identify, organize, and promote their skills and experience during the application phase of a job hunt. Starting with a period of personal reflection and goal-setting, the video guides viewers through the critical components of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: One in three children arrives in kindergarten unprepared for the challenges of school. Hosted by former teacher Debi Gutierrez, this program presents information and insights that will help in the care and education of young children with special needs. Topics include recognizing and understanding special needs, speech and language delays, hearing and visual impairments, and autism. The program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As children begin school and other new experiences, what happens to the values, behavior, and expectations they have learned at home? Why do so many young people follow the crowd? And when does conformity become a bad thing? This program explores those questions, visiting a group of 25 seven-year-olds who are learning to cope with peer groups and situations. Children and parents are given tasks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The stock market surged through the 1920s and jazz was everywhere in America. Now, for the first time, soloists and singers took center stage, transforming the music with distinctive voices and unique stories. This program introduces Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues, whose songs eased the pain of life for millions of black Americans; Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazz star, inspired...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: With no lack of people willing to cash in on smuggling drugs into the U.S., reducing user demand is the key to unraveling America's drug problem. In this ABC News program, three recovering teenage substance abusers candidly reflect on their experiences with drugs. Topics include how they deceived their parents for years at a time, stole money from family and friends to pay for their habits,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Fold-up Cars: Two women push an odd, folded-up vehicle onto street, put it together, drive away.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Summary: No sport is more American than baseball, but, contrary to popular opinion, the game likely predates the birth of our nation and has substantial roots overseas. This program explores baseball's origins as a folk pastime and depicts the early phases of its complex evolution. Refuting the myth that Civil War general Abner Doubleday single-handedly invented the game, the film looks at parallels in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Death, which sooner or later comes to all, is treated as a strangely taboo subject in America. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking-and talking-about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that most Americans show toward speaking about death, patients and medical professionals alike come forward to examine the end of life with honesty,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Whether they want to or not, four out of five Americans will likely die in hospitals or nursing homes, and the care they get will depend on both who is providing it and who is footing the bill. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers introduces crusading medical professionals-including staff members of the Balm of Gilead Project in Birmingham, Alabama-who have dedicated themselves...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005