Appearance
15 minutes, grades 1 – 4
The Professor helps Deepika understand
that appearance is simply how a person looks on the outside –
clothes, weight, body shape, color and size. She visits some
extraordinary people like Ukumbwa Sauti who help to illustrate
that appearance doesn’t show whom you really are inside.
Clean Kids
15 minutes, grades K - 3
One hygiene “crisis” after another is
averted as the Clean Kids use their battery of surveillance
equipment to monitor their friends in the neighborhood. The
Clean Kids have lots of good advice – about brushing teeth,
washing hands, showering, care of hair and nails and about the
importance of clean, neat clothes. This delightful program
will help youngsters see that being a Clean Kid is just part
of growing up.
Conflict Resolution for Students
Series: Bullying, Conflict with Authority, Crisis
Intervention, Harassment, Peer Conflict, Peer Pressure, Sexual
Harassment, Student & Adult Conflict
11 – 22 minutes each, grades 6 - 12
Viewers are provided with the skills they
need to address such dilemma-filled situations as dealing with
bullies and addressing peer pressure from friends. Each
episode is comprised to two delicately constructed vignettes
that address both sides of a given scenario, with time
built-in for in-class discussion so that students can discuss
what they have seen with teachers and their peers. The videos
also include a follow-up section where characters discuss the
featured situations objectively, providing students with the
framework for dealing with similar scenarios in their daily
lives.
Diversity: The World of Ethnic Man!
35 minutes, grades 5 – 12
After over 500 live performances
nationwide, Teja Arboleda’s critically acclaimed Ethnic Man!
Finally comes to video! Using his powerful autobiography as a
catalyst, this video seeks to help educators move their
students beyond restrictive notions of multiculturalism into a
greater understanding of people and their cultural
backgrounds.
Everybody’s Ethnic: Your Invisible
Culture
21 minutes, grades 7 - adult
Culture is like eye color. Your eye
color is obvious to anyone who sees you, but you cannot see
the color of your own eyes without some kind of reflection.
Everybody’s Ethnic helps viewers hold a mirror to their own
culture. Discover yourselves by exploring other cultures.
Families Growing Together: Doing Something
Right
16 minutes, parents
Teaches parents to notice and encourage
their children when they overcome difficulty or take new
growth risks. Children’s self-esteem improves with positive
feedback, and they feel included and more involved in family
dynamics.
Families Growing Together: Sex and
Drugs
16 minutes, parents
Most parents find it difficult to discuss
topics such as drugs and sex with their children. It is
extremely important to discuss these topics in a basic way for
children to learn to not keep secrets. This also creates
trust, brings dignity, and lays the foundation for later open
communication.
Families Growing Together: Teens
and Boundaries
16 minutes, parents
Children need to explore to learn about
the world and their place in it, but they also need their own
limits for interpersonal skills and safety. Boundaries given
to children by parents teach them to also respect other’s
boundaries toward them.
Food: A Multicultural Feast
24 minutes, grades 7 – adult
This video examines the multi-cultural
origins of many foods we take for granted. Why do our
supermarkets sell food for cats but not cats for food? Why do
other cultures eat things such as sheep’s eyeballs and insects
we may consider “gross”? Understand the answers to these
questions and you are well on your way toward multi-cultural
understanding.
Friends First Series: Me, Myself,
And I (Self-Confidence); Just Do It? (Self-Restraint); Get
On-Line (Communication); Virtual Relationships (Healthy
Relationships); From Here to There (Goals and Ideals)
12 minutes each, grades 6 – 9
Contemporary teens known as the Friends
First S.T.A.R.S. (self-control, trust, abstinence,
responsibility, and self-respect) mentor middle school teens
through the relationship issues they face on a daily basis.
HIV and AIDS: Staying Safe
15 minutes, grades 4 – 6
This video introduces adolescents to some
of the basic facts about HIV and AIDS in a sensitive and
careful way, preparing them for some of the difficult
decisions they will make as they approach their teenage
years. Through discussion, demonstration and animation, the
kids will see what the virus does inside the body, why it
leaves the body so vulnerable to other infections, and how HIV
develops into AIDS.
Hurting on the Inside: Girls and
Bullying
18 minutes, grades 6 – 12
We know that girls do more than their
fair share of bullying and sometimes it can be very hurtful
and demeaning. Look at how girls bully, why they do it and
how it can be dealt with successfully and brought under
control.
I Am the Boss of My Body
18 minutes, grades K – 4
Just like you are boss of your toys or
your dolls, you are in charge of your body. This thoughtful
program takes a difficult subject and presents it in a clear,
strong, and positive way to students. They will feel
empowered as they begin to understand their rights.
I’m Normal, You’re Weird:
Understanding Other Cultures
24 minutes, grades 7 – adult
This video demonstrates that much human
behavior is cultural – how people line up to wait, how they
use ice in their drinks, how they view appointments and time,
and even how they define honesty. Learn how some cultures
elevate the individual, while others place the group at the
pinnacle of importance.
In Your Face: Why Courtesy and
Respect
22 minutes, grades 7 – adult
This video contends that respect for
others is basic to civilization. Learn how to avoid
attach-defend cycles that turn minor disputes into potential
blow-ups. Show your students how to stand up for their rights
and still show respect and courtesy.
It’s Not Funny!: Teasing – It’s a
Real Bummer for Everyone
35 minutes, grades 5 – 9
This video examines the reasons kids
tease with a view to changing their behavior. For every kid
who is pushed around physically (bullied), many more are
tormented by taunting about obesity, stuttering, slow learning
and a myriad of other “failings.” Sexual harassment is
addressed.
Just Around the Corner – For Girls
15 minutes, grades 3 - 5
In this video, Megan – captain of the
soccer team, admired big sister, and self-assured teenager –
talks to younger elementary-level girls about what to expect
during puberty. Charming animated figures help to explain
physical and emotional changes and when to expect them,
menstruation and the female reproductive system, and the
importance of good hygiene and healthy habits.
Just Around the Corner – For Boys
15 minutes, grades 3 - 5
In this video, Todd – promising art
student and easygoing teenaged big brother – helps to prepare
boys for the big changes coming with puberty. Lighthearted
animated figures help to explain physical and emotional
changes and when to expect them, the male reproductive system,
common experiences of puberty, and the importance of good
hygiene and healthy habits.
Kindness
12 minutes, grades 5 - 8
Karen’s always getting made fun of by
some kids at school. Peter has been calling Joey a nerd.
Together, a group of children learns compassion, kindness, and
the importance of not fighting fire with fire.
Looking for Love: Dating, Violence
and Choices
20 minutes, grades 7 – adult
Presents a soft approach for young women
experiencing their first love relationships. Discusses the
tremendous peer pressure to be “dateable” which can result in
poor choices and the acceptance of abuse. Girls learn the
difference between “male behavior” and abuse, such as jealous
anger, making all the decisions, criticizing, forcing sex,
manipulation and withholding love and affection.
No Way!…to Treat Others
27 minutes, grades 7 - 12
No Way is the message on bullying that
all teenagers need to hear, and also send to each other. This
video can be the dramatic stepping-stone for students to get
beyond casual acceptance of bullying to the willingness to do
something about it, starting with themselves.
Once Upon a Feeling
19 minutes, grades K – 3
This video will teach your students that
it’s important to name their feelings and to share them.
Grandpaw explains that all children have difficult feelings,
and even though they’re hard to understand, feelings should be
accepted as part of our nature.
Picking Off Our Kids, One at a Time
– Bullying Prevention for Junior and High School
22 minutes, grades 7 – 12
looks at how the whole school can work
together to achieve positive change. Scenarios look at: peer
pressure, stereotyping, two vs. one, physical intimidation,
isolation, racism, sexual harassment and more.
Race
15 minutes, grades 1 – 4
The Professor helps Isabella understand
that race, which is skin color, hair texture and facial
features, is not a true measure of our identity, and that
every human being is of the same race. Some engaging people,
including Dr. Warren Perry, explains that in our society race
and skin color have been unfairly used against some people.
The Unbiased Mind
23 minutes, grades 7 - adult
Without pre-judgment and bias we could
not handle everyday mental tasks. But these thinking habits
become dangerous when they replace critical thinking or serve
to judge classes of people. Use this video to help viewers
avoid everyday thinking traps such as stereotypes, the
“blindness of normality,” cause and effect errors,
confirmation bias, and our built-in “blind spot.”
Wash Those Hands!
9 minutes, grades 1 - 5
Describes how the simple act of hand
washing helps prevent the spread of illness. A narrator
explains the benefits of hand washing for everyone and
demonstrates the best step-by-step technique for washing and
drying hands.
What’s the Difference?
20 minutes, grades K - 3
Grandpaw teaches Baxter, and his friend
Pickles, that being afraid of someone, or something, just
because of differences is wrong, and that love, not what we
look like, is what counts.
Why You Buy: 21st
Century Advertising
23 minutes, grades 7 - adult
Today’s ads often make no claims for the
product and use subtle tactics to get around our substantial
defenses against commercial arm twisting. This new video
looks at person-to-person selling, direct mail, ads and
emotions, and TV commercials to reveal how they sneak under
our persuasion radar.
Why Kids Smoke
23 minutes, grades 4 – 6
This entertaining yet informative program
examines the reasons kids are drawn to experimenting with
cigarettes. Captivating animation, candid interviews with
real kids, staged debates and original music provide an
engaging way to educate students about how peer pressure and
advertising play important roles in why kids smoke.
Words Can Hurt
19 minutes, grades K – 3
Baxter learns to have consideration for
others, and to appreciate his individuality. Students will
learn the importance of understanding emotions, and the value
of controlling hurtful anger, respecting the feelings of
others, and learning to apologize.
