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Economy in and between Communities
A5109
- This engaging program will grab and hold your students attention as they are introduced to the key concepts surrounding our community's economy. They will learn the difference between goods and services in both the public and private sector. Lots of real life visuals show people at work—production workers and service workers—and helps students unde... |
1-3 |
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Everybody needs Food
A5705
- Food is one of our four basic needs. Everybody needs food whether they live in an arid desert or a snow-covered forest, and what they eat is largely determined by where they live. Learn that food doesn't magically appear in a supermarket but comes from farms, ranches, the sea, etc. and that halfway around the world a "supermarket" might be an open-... |
K-3 |
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Everybody needs Shelter
A5706
- Understand that shelter is one of our four basic needs, and witness dozens of human shelters—igloos to mansions—from equator to poles and sea to mountaintop. Learn how shelters protect families from the elements and how shelters are often built with materials that are available locally. |
K-3 |
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Forest Habitats
S1102
- Visit deciduous and evergreen forests to see the plants and animals that make this ecosystem their home. Discover how living things change over time and adapt to their surroundings. Learn that living things depend upon their environment and upon each other to survive. |
2-5 |
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How Communities are Alike and Different
A5105
- Discover that all communities—big or small and in different areas—have things in common. Learn that people in a big city might work in a factory, while a person who lives in a small mountain town might make a living by logging. Learn that many children in a farming community belong to 4-H and show animals at fairs for fun, while children in the cit... |
K-3 |
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How Communities Grow and Change
A5104
- Tour the Historic California State Rail Museum with young Shelby and meet the "Conductor" of a journey through time. Students will learn how the first settlements made an impact on future communities. They'll discover how communities have grown and changed leaving behind historical landmarks and paving the road for technological developments in tra... |
K-3 |
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How our Economy Works / All about Earning and Spending Money
A5708
- In this engaging video students learn that people work to earn money so that they can satisfy their basic needs and wants, and that everything we spend money on is either for goods or services. They learn what a job is and the difference between production workers and service workers. They are introduced to the concepts of saving and banks. |
K-3 |
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Learning about Natural Resources
S1201
- Reduce/Reuse/Recycle are meaningless words to students who do not have a clear understanding of the importance of natural resources. In this engaging production students first learn about the three types of natural resources: inexhaustible, renewable, and nonrenewable. Next, identify the earth's wide variety of natural resources—air, water, oil, co... |
K-4 |
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Production Workers / And the Goods They Make
A5703
- Learn about the people who make or grow the goods we need—production workers. See how these workers make trucks and houses and grow food for the community. Understand simple explanations of the terms goods and services, consumers, income; and learn why people work. |
K-3 |
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Service Workers / And the Services They Provide
A5702
- Learn about the workers who serve our communities and the services they provide—police officers, fire fighters, sanitation workers, grocery clerks, and others. Discover that providing a service means doing something to help someone else. Terms like goods and services, consumers, and income come alive in this visually rich presentation . |
K-3 |
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