Summary: With the growing reliance on computer-based communication and the return of public interest in early schooling, much attention is being paid to the attainment of literacy. Filmed in several multicultural preschool and kindergarten classrooms, this program reviews underlying cognitive, social, and physical requirements for all formal education and then presents the literacy-specific...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: Nothing in human experience is quite so astonishing as the enormous changes that occur during the five short years that transform a newborn into an actively curious, exploring kindergartner. Filmed in 1996, this program examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities of and differences between their contributions to a greater understanding of the cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Preventive healthcare is crucial to the well-being of young children. This program covers vital health issues including vaccinations and immunizations, as well as how to recognize symptoms of serious illness. Recently developed vaccines for chicken pox and Hepatitis B are examined, and the myths that polio and diphtheria have been eradicated are addressed. Foundation health habits such as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Who better for students to learn from about early childhood professions than people already working in the field? Over the course of this video, a variety of high-energy, engaging professionals who work with children talk about some of the choices available to students today. Interviews include a kindergarten teacher, a Head Start associate director of operations, a public health nurse, an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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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Early, Hank
Summary: Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EAREarly, Hank
Summary: Private investigator Earl Marcus thought he'd conquered his demons after vanquishing the malevolent spirit of his fundamentalist preacher father, but faces a new terror when he investigates rumors of a place in the woods where a killer collects human skulls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARSummary: Is a baby actually learning something when he knocks down a stack of blocks? What happens in a toddler's mind when she "feeds" her teddy bear? Why does it take just as much work to bake an imaginary cake as a real one? This program explores the process through which young children begin to reason, plan, and solve both concrete and abstract problems. Emphasizing that babies are driven to make...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Although dogged by scandal after his term as Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim steered the United Nations through a precarious phase of global history-in which the Vietnam War and the space race were the most prominent of many international dramas. Waldheim's involvement in Turkish-Cypriot diplomacy and several attempts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and Central Asia are also notable,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A fear of the dark. A fear of thunderstorms. A fear of monsters in the closet. Even a fear of being sucked down the bathroom drain. Although they are frightening, childhood fears are generally a benign part of growing up. In this program, parents and experts share their insights about the fears that affect children at different ages. The use of such fears to chart a child's cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Life behind bars is a real pain in the butt. Just ask Earl, whose commitment to good karma has landed him in the big house. His shackled hands are full. There's a gang war to stifle and a gala prison prom to plan. Even conjugal visit day is one big headache! With a pregnant ex-wife and a hilariously inept prison guard for a brother, Earl suffers a karmic crisis and finally goes over the top!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYTower, Eric J.
Summary: Text and photographs look at how to build towns in Minecraft.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKIDS Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM Mine TowerSummary: 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: Earl is learning the hard way that when you do something bad, it has a way of coming back at you ten-fold. Hoping to turn his life around, he gets a list of deeds to make up for it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYKolmstetter, Michael.
Contents: Are you sleeping? (1:33) -- This old man (1:41) -- Medley: Farmer in the dell/Row your boat (1:18) -- Kum ba ya (2:16) -- Mary had a little lamb (1:24) -- Mozart's lullaby (2:30) -- Simple gifts (2:40) -- Medley: Lavender's blue/Golden slumbers (2:13) -- Spanish medley in A major (1:33) -- Good night my love (3:14) -- Twinkle, little star (1:53) -- Rock-a-bye baby (2:27) -- Do you know how many...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kolmstetter Musik 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV KOLHoagland, Alison K.
Summary: During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and work long hours in dangerous conditions--companies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.09774 HOASummary: Just a generation ago, pediatric cancers were almost always fatal. But today, 80 percent of childhood cancers are cured-young patients are disease-free and go on to live a normal life span. This program explores how doctors and researchers achieved this milestone, considered one of the greatest success stories in modern medicine. Also, scientists detail how research into pediatric cancer helped...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: To help improve the odds of being accepted by America's most desirable colleges and universities, increasing numbers of high school students are getting a jump on the competition by applying for early admission. This ABC News program looks at the controversial process and contrasts it with Georgetown University's nonbinding early action alternative. The marketing efforts of Georgetown-and of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Yalom, Marilyn
Summary: "This book is an effort to understand the effects of the experience on children of living through World War II in Europe and United States. It is based exclusively on first-person accounts recorded by people Marilyn Yalom had known closely as adults and after decades-long conversations with them. These friends convey wartime memories from childhood years spent in France, Germany, Hungary,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 YALSummary: An uncompromising look at child exploitation, this ABC News program features investigative filmmakers Len Morris and Robin Romano, who have exposed child labor operations around the globe. A gravel quarry in India, a Kenyan coffee plantation, a fishing platform on the Sea of Sumatra, even farms in the United States-the program shows how extensively these and other locations depend on child...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Haidt, Jonathan
Summary: After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Contents: The chill of an early fall (3:29) -- I've convinced everybody but me (3:19) -- If I know me (2:42) -- You know me better than that (3:01) -- Anything you can spare (2:18) -- Home in San Antone (2:24) -- Lovesick blues (2:55) -- Milk cow blues (4:51) -- Her only bad habit is me (3:17) -- Is it already time (2:47).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY STRCleary, Brian P.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations present numerous examples of adverbs and their functions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2005