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Real World Science Series I
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Our Price: $287.95
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DVDs Include:
Fossils and Dinosaurs
Habitats
Our Solar System
Rocks and Minerals
Seeds and Plants
Simple Machines
Trash and the Environment
Weather and Climate
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Real World Science Series I: Fossils & Dinosaurs
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Our Price: $39.95
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Real World Science programs are designed to make science relevant in a child's everyday life. Peer hosts introduce live-action, concrete situations to help teach scientific concepts and principles. Colorful graphics, animation and detailed diagrams are used throughout the program to reinforce the learning process. These informative and fun-filled DVDs will enhance every elementary and middle school science curriculum.
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Real World Science Series I: Habitats
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Our Price: $39.95
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Live-action footage of animals as well as animated sequences show why habitats are important. Students will explore the tundra, deserts, grasslands, forests, and waterways of the world and learn about the plants and animals that live in each.
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Real World Science Series I: Our Solar System
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Our Price: $39.95
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This program surveys the celestial bodies that make up our solar system: sun, moon and nine planets. Describes how gravity works to keep the planets in orbit and depicts how they rotate and revolve - each at a different pace. This series of engaging and informative programs uses live footage, colourful graphics and animation to introduce students to scientific concepts and principles and show how science relates to everyday life.
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Real World Science Series I: Rocks and Minerals
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Our Price: $39.95
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Uses live footage of various rock formations to explain the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock. Describes the changes wrought by weather, water, erosion and other factors. This series of engaging and informative programs uses live footage, colorful graphics and animation to introduce students to scientific concepts and principles and show how science relates to everyday life.
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Real World Science Series I: Seeds and Plants
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Our Price: $39.95
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Diagrams plant parts and defines osmosis, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, xylem, sepal, pistil, stamen, corolla and stigma. Examines pollination, fertilization and germination. This series of engaging and informative programs uses live footage, colorful graphics and animation to introduce students to scientific concepts and principles and show how science relates to everyday life.
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Real World Science Series I: Simple Machines
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Our Price: $39.95
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Illustrates the workings of six simple machines used in everyday life. Demonstrates function and purpose of the inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, wheel axle and pulley. This series of engaging and informative programs uses live footage, colorful graphics and animation to introduce students to scientific concepts and principles and show how science relates to everyday life.
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Real World Science Series I: Trash and the Environment
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Our Price: $39.95
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Takes viewers on a trip to a recycling center, landfill and town dump to alert them to what happens to trash and garbage after they throw it away. Offers ways solid waste problems might be alleviated. This series of engaging and informative programs uses live footage, colorful graphics and animation to introduce students to scientific concepts and principles and show how science relates to everyday life.
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Real World Science Series I: Weather and Climate
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Our Price: $39.95
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Gives students an inside look at the relationship between air, water and heat and how these elements interact to make weather happen. This series of engaging and informative programs uses live footage, colourful graphics and animation to introduce students to scientific concepts and principles and show how science relates to everyday life.
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Real World Science Series II (Physical Science)
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Our Price: $143.95
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Real World Science Series II : Electricity
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Our Price: $39.95
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Electricity and Forces shows you how these and other amazing and invisible forces work, along with the awesome impact they have on our everyday lives.
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Real World Series II: Magnetism
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Our Price: $39.95
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Real World Science programs are designed to make science relevant in a child's everyday life. Peer hosts introduce live-action, concrete situations to help teach scientific concepts and principles. Colorful graphics, animation and detailed diagrams are used throughout the program to reinforce the learning process. These informative and fun-filled DVDs will enhance every elementary and middle school science curriculum.
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Real World Science Series II: Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
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Our Price: $39.95
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Explores the various properties of matter in its three basic states: solid, liquid and gas. It explains how matter changes states with changes in temperature. In addition, it discusses the various ways to measure mass and observe
its properties.
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Real World Science Series II: The Scientific Method
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Our Price: $39.95
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Real World Science: Scientific Method explores the steps of the scientific method, from defining the problem to drawing a conclusion. It discusses various ways to gather information, as well the importance of forming a clear hypothesis. It also helps students understand how to analyze data, conduct valid experiments and state their conclusions.
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The Power Of Choice
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Our Price: $79.95
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In this program comedian/teen counselor Michael Pritchard visits high schools in San Francisco, Denver, New York City, and Biloxi, Mississippi to show young people how to be V.I.P.'s -to use Vision, Initiative, and Perspective as tools for making good choices. Among the many topics they discuss are peer pressure, self esteem, parent relations, teen pregnancy, and drug and alcohol use.
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Depression And Suicide
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Our Price: $64.95
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This program, which was videotaped in two high schools still reverberating from recent suicides, presents a clear minded look at what to do if you or someone you care about is at risk. Host Michael Pritchard and teens in Phoenix and South Bend, Indiana identify the signs frequently exhibited by people who are at risk for suicide and discuss the recommended procedures for intervening. In addition, they examine ways of coping with the depression and stress that often leads to suicide, and encourage people to ask for help when they feel themselves at risk. As one student emphatically puts it, "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
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Communication With Parents
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Our Price: $64.95
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In this program, comedian/teen counselor Michael Pritchard visits high schools in Nashville and Boston to explore the critical issue of teen-parent communications. Through probing dialogue and hypothetical situations, they examine some of the ways in which family communication gets blocked, and consider what kinds of choices they can make to improve the situation.
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Raising Your Parents
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Our Price: $64.95
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In this program, host Michael Pritchard and high school students in Washington, D.C.; San Rafael, CA; Columbia, S.C.; Boston, and Atlanta take on the age old question of how to make their relationship with their parents work better. By defining what they want in their relationship with their parents, and examining how their own actions affect that relationship, these teenagers uncover some of the keys to getting what they want in the teen/parent alliance.
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Acting On Your Values
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Our Price: $64.95
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In this program, comedian/youth counselor Michael Pritchard, talks with students in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Minneapolis, to discover how our values can guide us in making choices that are right for us. It is a candid exploration of the values on which today's teens base their lives, where those values come from, and what meaning they have, as teenagers grow toward adulthood.
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Self-Esteem
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Our Price: $64.95
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In this program, host Michael Pritchard and high school students from Albuquerque, Detroit, Dallas, Wichita, and Columbia, S.C., discuss self-esteem: what is is, what it does for us, how we can enhance it, how we can undermine it, and how we affect the self-esteem of those around us. The underlying message of this show is that good self-esteem leads to good choices, and good choices lead to higher self-esteem. As one boy in Detroit said, "Really, the only thing that you can really count on in your life is that you know yourself. I have my self-esteem. I know what I can do. You have to take it from there."
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Coping With Presure
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In this program, comedian/teen counselor Mike Pritchard and students from St. Louis; New York City; Cleveland; Detroit; Columbia, SC.; and Gainesville, FL, talk about the pressures they face, from academic competition to peer acceptance to parental expectations. In small group dialogues, they grapple with ways of keeping pressure in perspective and handling it in a manner that serves their best interests.
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Drugs And Alcohol Part 1
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Our Price: $64.95
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In this program, host Michael Pritchard encourages teenagers to come to grips with the question of what to do when "just say no" and "just say yes" just won't do. Students from high schools in Atlanta and Albuquerque talk openly and honestly about the choices (good and bad) they have made with alcohol and drug use. As one teenager relates, "I look back, it felt good then. Now I could cry. Once it wore off, I had to face myself again."
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Drugs And Alcohol Part 2
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In this program, Pritchard and high school students in Albuquerque; Atlanta; Cleveland; Madison, Wisconsin; and Fremont, California, examine how chemical abuse damages relationships, what you can and cannot do about it, and how to respond when a chemically dependent person asks you for help. It is a useful and enlightening look at what to do when someone you care about is hooked.
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Drinking And Driving
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In this program, comedian/teen counselor Michael Pritchard visits with teenagers in Los Angeles; Nashville; and Madison, Wisconsin, to talk about how to stay out of (or get out of) drinking/driving predicaments and still be cool. As one boy so honestly put it, "It's hard for guys like me who aren't very popular. Friendships I have with guys who brag about dope, drinking, and wild parties are important. A lot of times you just go along with it and tell yourself next time you won't do it. But then you go along with them anyway."
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Sex
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In this program, Michael Pritchard and students from Columbia, S.C.; Gainesville, FL; Wayne, NJ; Washington, D.C.; Dallas, TX; and New York City, take on the thorny issues they face in making decisions about sex. As they attempt to juggle runaway hormones, religious values, peer pressures, sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancies, these teens search for an answer to the age-old riddle of how to make choices tonight that you can live with tomorrow.
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Friendship And Dating
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In this program, host Michael Pritchard and high school students in Detroit, Wichita, Brooklyn, and Gainesville, Florida take a heartwarming look at how to create and maintain quality relationships. They identify the ingredients of good friendships, consider how their own actions affect those friendships, examine the dynamics and expectations of romantic and dating relationships, and discuss how these relationships change as we grow up. As one boy in Brooklyn said, "When I started dating, my Mom told me to treat girls the way I'd want boys to treat my sister." Pritchard's response: "You have a great mother."
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The Power Of Choice 12 Program Series
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Our Price: $649.50
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The Power of Choice with Michael Pritchard is a 12-part youth guidance video series aimed at empowering teenagers to make good choices in their lives. It teaches young people that they have the power of choice, that they are responsible for the choices they make, and that they owe it to themselves to choose the best.
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