Summary: Join Scout and his friends as they learn letter sounds with the help of some amazing animals! Scout, Violet, Eli and Penny long to learn about new animals. When their magical toy car, Axle, whisks them away to a farm, they discover a remarkable alphabet collection and ABC antics ensue! As the friends get in shape with an athletic alligator, console a sad seal, converse with a high-pitched...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Me DVD Leap Phonics 2011Summary: Key scenes of MacBeth are enacted by classically trained actors, then analyzed and interpreted by internationally renowned Shakespeare scholars. Insightful comments help explain meaning, characters, motives, background action and plot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TeleMedia Productions 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 MACLidwell, William.
Summary: There's more to colors than just aesthetics. There's an actual science behind how colors work on your eyes and your brain. And the secrets that scientists are uncovering offer astounding revelations on how colors influence the way you think, feel, and behave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 752 HOWSummary: Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages - fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 MEDSummary: Based on the unforgettable Open University and Television for Schools programs of the 1970s. Through a series of gloriously deadpan experiments, we observe a colony of ants build an igloo, receive a telephone call from a brain, discover why ghosts can't whistle, and reveal the largest number in the world. Science has never been so silly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOOSummary: Nutrition researcher Neal Barnard, M.D. reveals groundbreaking research and scientifically proven results to turning back the clock on diabetes. Today the disease affects more than 24 million children and adults in America. Through Dr. Barnard's low-fat vegan diet, diabetics and non-diabetics alike will experience medical results including weight loss, blood glucose control, and reduced heart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DPTV Media 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nutrition researcher Neal Barnard, M.D. reveals groundbreaking research and scientifically proven results to turning back the clock on diabetes. Today the disease affects more than 24 million children and adults in America. Through Dr. Barnard's low-fat vegan diet, diabetics and non-diabetics alike will experience medical results including weight loss, blood glucose control, and reduced heart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DPTV Media 2009
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD TAKBurger, Edward B.
Summary: Discover classical mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history, ideas that have shaped cultures. Explore the fourth dimension, conincidences, fractals, the allure of number and gemoetry, in understandable terms. No formulas, problems, equations, techniques and drills that remind us of school, but thinking that opens doors and minds and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 510 JOY PART 1Call number: DVD 510 JOY PART 2
Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 VIKCall number: DVD 948.022 VIK
Summary: Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan, M.W. is one of only a few hundred people in the world and one of only 26 in the United States to achieve the title of Master of Wine, the highest qualification in the global wine community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVECall number: DVD 641.23 EVE
Summary: Learn to read with songs and games, this program teaches phonics rules, where kids can control the pace advancing as they master a new skill. The songs and stories are shown in live action and animated characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment ; Rock 'n learn 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ROCSummary: In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Changing the course of rivers has changed the course of history. Award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay goes to extremes to bring you an unprecedented look at the power of dams. From the banks of the Nile to the top of the Hoover Dam, you'll meet the courageous and ambitious builders, relive the deadly disasters, and discover the little-known personal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBS Boston Video 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DAMSummary: "Look beyond epic battles and meet some of the ordinary people who made an extraordinary impact on World War II"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 940.5309 UnsungSummary: Presents instruction on identifying butterflies found across the United States. Covers butterfly biology, lifecycles, and behavior. Explains how to attract butterflies to backyard gardens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MasterVision 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.789 AUDSummary: Learn vocabulary related to everyday life, idioms along with sentence examples and an ASL sentence structure. This DVD takes you on a trip to the Long Island's wildlife park.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 AMESummary: Learn how to reject the notion that aging is an evil. The rewards of growing older are emphasized and practical steps for remaining healthy are offered. Learn the best approach to diet and exercise, how important sleep is, and much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.04 WEIFovell, Robert G.
Summary: Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Robert G. Fovell, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, on meteorology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 METSummary: Follow Dr. Kenny Broad as he dives into blue holes, the underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. With an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists, Broad investigates the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this spectacularly beautiful 'alternate universe.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EXTSummary: In a new age of information, rapid innovation, and globalization, how can children be prepared to compete? Discover how the new science of learning can help reimagine the future of education for all children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SCHSummary: Eight-year-old AJ and his monster truck, Blaze, go on a series of adventures solving problems involving science and math. Let's blaaaze into four high-speed races with the Monster Machines! Help Blaze and AJ use adhesion to stop Zeg from bouncing away and acceleration to get Darington to the Stuntmania Super Track. Plus, win a sailboat race with the right parts and wind power, and even team up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A children's television show about tools and how they work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2007