Scotscam
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
Posing as doctors and air force pilots, a charming fraud artist supreme travels the world flying first-class and staying in five star hotels -- the…
Simple DNA Extraction
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
Using simple materials and tools, extract visible strands of DNA from fruit cells.
The Amazing Dipping Duck
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
Explore what makes the dipping duck dip, and what it can tell us about the weather!
The Amazing Flowing/Non-flowing Fluid!
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
Cornstarch and water combine to make a marvellous substance that looks like runny goo until you apply pressure to it, at which point it turns stiff…
The Biology of Lakes, Ponds, Streams, and Wetlands
By BioMedia Associates - 2006
This program introduces students to organisms that live in weedy shallows, open water, bottom debris, stream habitats and wetland habitats. The…
The Egg-Splosion!
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
The rate at which combustion can take place is determined by the availability of oxygen. In this demonstration, hydrogen burns slowly until there is…
The Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Global Warming
By Rees Films - 2006
What exactly are greenhouse gases? Are they really causing climate change? Global warming has suddenly become the hottest environmental issue, and…
What Does a Sparkplug Do?
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
Replicate the controlled explosions unleashed inside your car engine hundreds of times every second!
Who's Abused?
By Distribution Access - 2006
When most people think of victims of abuse, they think of women and children. Family Violence affects a surprisingly wide range of people. This…
Why Does the Wind Blow?
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2006
Air has mass and exerts pressure on the earth's surface. Differences in pressure cause the air to move! These demonstrations illustrate just how…
A Daring Flight
By WGBH - 2005
On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot set out on his epic flight across the English Channel, marking the first long-distance flight over…
Beginning Maps: Models and Places
By SchoolMedia, Inc. - 2005
Students discover the relationship between the real world, small models of real locations and the purpose of maps. Engaging models of a neighborhood…
Economy in and between Communities
By SchoolMedia, Inc. - 2005
This engaging program will grab and hold your students attention as they are introduced to the key concepts surrounding our community's economy. They…
Hitler's Sunken Secret
By WGBH - 2005
One of the most daring resistance operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, with its cargo of "heavy water…
How Leaders and Events Shape Communities
By SchoolMedia, Inc. - 2005
Page is reluctant to run for class president until a great leader from the past shows her what leadership is all about. Students will be inspired by…
Josef Penninger
By Distribution Access - 2005
Gene Specialist Josef Penninger speaks about his discovery of a cure for lung failure diseases while studying the SARS virus.
Les ours polaires: Guide de sécurité
By Safety In Bear Country Society - 2005
Ce programme contient des renseignements importants sur la façon de réduire vos chances de rencontrer un ours polaire et la maniêre appropriée de…
Polar Bears: A Guide to Safety
By Safety In Bear Country Society - 2005
This program contains important information on how to reduce your chance of encountering a polar bear and how to respond appropriately if you do meet…
Polar Bears: A Guide to Safety - Inuktitut version
By Safety In Bear Country Society - 2005
This program contains important information on how to reduce your chance of encountering a polar bear and how to respond appropriately if you do meet…
Purpose and Construction of Maps
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
When a map is built, are we showing the physical world, or are we merely projecting our world view onto a piece of paper? Each map has a hidden set…
Science and War
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Historians debate whether war is essentially destructive or constructive for the development of science. Certainly both world wars used scientists…
Science and War
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Historians debate whether war is essentially destructive or constructive for the development of science. Certainly both world wars used scientists…
Science in the Renaissance
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Using Galileo as an example, this program delves into the ongoing relationship between science and power, and how first the Church, then the nobility…
Southern Manitoba: Creepy, Crawly Critters
By Summerhill Entertainment - 2005
In this episode of CG Kids, Sid and Idee are going on a bug hunt in Manitoba. First off, they head to Oak Hammock Marsh, a Ducks Unlimited…
The Age of Empire
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
As European nations ventured out to grab other lands - and to fight their European rivals in other theatres - they believed they had the right and…
The Challenge of 20th Century Biology
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
The race for the structure of DNA, just over 50 years ago, is a wonderful story of intrigue and personalities, and gives us a very interesting…
The End of Classical Physics
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Einstein, Planck and other physicists of the early 20th century proposed a world of relativity which stood in sharp contradiction to the certainties…
The Great Bazaar of Science
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
The importance of Arabic thinkers has long been overlooked, and considered merely as an interlude and repository for Greek and Roman knowledge, but…
The Origin of Species
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Who was Darwin? What is his argument? And what is its relationship to the brutal social Darwinism that, in some ways, led to the First World War?
Was There a Scientific Revolution?
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Exactly what was the scientific revolution? Common wisdom would have us believe a progression of thought from the obscurantist "Dark Ages" to the…
Wetlands: Evaporating Habitat
By Summerhill Entertainment - 2005
In this episode of CG Kids, Sid and Idee check out the wetlands of Canada when Eldon sends them on a search for the elusive "Marsh Monster". First…
What is Science?
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
What are the underlying assumptions, good and bad, we have about science and scientists? What is the relationship between science and technology…
Where is Science Headed?
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Will science destroy us or transform us? As science turns inward to the manipulation of our genetic structure, and extends our senses through digital…
Why the Greeks?
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Why did the thinkers and society of pre-Christian Era Greece have such a profound effect on the development of rational thought and "scientific…
Women's Role in Science
By Broadview Press Inc. - 2005
Is science a masculine enterprise, suited to the male intellect and unsuited to the female? Or has science developed in an insular male world for so…
A Closer Look at Earth
By SchoolMedia, Inc. - 2004
From above and below the surface, students take a closer look at what makes the third planet from the sun so special. They learn to read clues to…
Advanced American Sign Language Workbook
By Alberta Advanced Education - 2004
This workbook which accompanies the series is designed to assist learners in developing ASL skills through self-paced modules augmented by formal ASL…
America's Stone Age Explorers
By WGBH - 2004
Who were the first Americans and where did they come from? The conventional view is that they arrived here around 13,500 years ago, but startling new…
Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land
By WGBH - 2004
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dark, inhospitable cave located in a canyon near the Dead Sea was a secret refuge for Jewish refugees fleeing for their…
Bonding Between Atoms
By Classroom Video - 2004
Bonding Between Atoms covers the following topics; electrons in clouds around atoms, the electrons of halogens outer shell, the electrons of alkali…
Bonding Between Molecules
By Classroom Video - 2004
Bonding Between Molecules covers the following topics; the biscuit molecule, icing bonds between atoms and butter bonds between molecules, hydrogen…
F.A.P. - Nutrition and Sport
By Classroom Video - 2004
The basis of good nutrition is balance: our intake needs to be balanced with our needs. Physical exercise increases the need for all the essential…
Great Escape
By WGBH - 2004
The movie "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen, was based on fact - on the most daring and technically ingenious prison escape of World War II…
How Customs and Heritage Shape Communities
By SchoolMedia, Inc. - 2004
Something as simple as food has a rich cultural history. From this springboard students take a look at the heritage of many people groups in the…
Julia Child - America's Favorite Chef
By WGBH - 2004
Julia Child was not a natural-born cook - when she married, she could barely boil an egg. But she fell in love with French food, and soon enrolled at…
North Africa
By Cerebellum Corporation - 2004
The Standard Deviants are your tour guides as they study the diverse histories, cultures, economics and physical characteristics of distant (and…
Waves in the Ocean (Senior)
By Classroom Video - 2004
This is a remake of the best-selling 1985 video of the same name. Updated with graphics/animation, exciting new footage and a specific…
A-Z of your Head
By Channel Four Learning - 2003
A-Z of Your Head looks at the variety of mental health issues that affect young people. It tries to de-stigmatise mental health problems and…