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NEW RESOURCES FOR HEALTH AND HOME ECONOMICS
Breakfast: Most Important Meal of the Day (1700727)
Mental and physical benefits accrue from eating a good breakfast. Topics include metabolism, blood-sugar levels, nutrients, the food pyramid and recommended breakfast foods. Material is presented in chapters. 
Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2007
McIntyre Media
Subjects: Food—Study and Teaching; Health, Health Promoting Schools, Home Economics
Budgeting Basics (1700718)
Synopsis Like many students, Rachel exits college with a whopping student loan and heavy credit card debt. She discovers that debt, taxes, everyday expenses, and a few unexpected bills can turn a tidy salary into a hole in her wallet. In this program, Rachel gets a financial makeover, learning the value of preparing a budget and sticking to a spending plan.
Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12) (MS)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2007
Learning Seed
Subjects: Careers-Personal Finance, Personal Finance
 Cake Decorating (1700720)
Beautify your cakes with direction from Chef Rick Forpahl, an experienced cake decorator. Learn proper hand techniques and how to use tools and equipment. He demonstrates basic decorating techniques including star, rosette, sweet pea, roses, stems, writing, and leaves.
Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12) (MS)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2007
McIntyre Media
Subjects: Cookery; Food—Study and Teaching
Design Basics: The Elements (1700725)
This DVD introduces color, line, shape, form, pattern and texture, the elements of design. It uses examples taken from history, nature, interior design, fashion and architecture to illustrate each element.
Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2002
Learning Seed
Subjects: Home Economics; Design
Exploring Healthy Relationships (1700721)
Follows two families as their teenage children negotiate relationships with parents, siblings, friends, teachers and even employers. It is an intimate portrait of how real families in this new millennium work (most of the time) and do not work (some of the time). Not only will students learn a new "relationship vocabulary," they will get a firm grasp on ways to have healthier relationships. They will also learn to accept mistakes made by parents and other adults with understanding and humor. An extensive teacher's resource book allows this program to be used over four days as part of a mini-curriculum.  Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2001
Human Relations Media
Subjects: Human Relations
Parenthood: Are You Prepared? (1700722)
Viewers follow a diverse group of young parents, and a pregnant teen, through their daily tasks. The video is broken down into four sections: emotional preparation, physical preparation, financial preparation and social preparation. Program emphasizes key teaching points including: parenthood requires maturity; a stable home environment; a reprioritizing of your life, time and money. Teens will learn that being a parent is a demanding job that needs careful consideration before it happens.
Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)
DVD, 2008
Human Relations Media
Subjects: Parenting; Pregnancy—Adolescent; Pregnancy
 Snack Attack (1700729)
This DVD is filmed at a high school with a healthy food vending program. Information about food labels, fats, and cholesterol is provided as well as tips from registered dieticians and students.
Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)DVD, 2005
DVD, 2005
Learning Seed
Subjects: Health, Health Promoting Schools, Home Economics; Food—Study and Teaching; Snack Foods
Understanding Fabrics (1700726)
Covers the basics: the definition and manufacture of fabrics, types of weaves, knits, and finishing, and blended fabrics. Clips showing factory machines used to produce fabric will help students understand how fabric is made.
Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2007
Learning Seed
Subjects: Home Economics; Fabrics—Study and Teaching
Wash Up! It's In Your Hands (1700719)
Hand washing is the most important thing we can do to prevent getting sick. Health Canada and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have proven it. This 12 minute video gives simple facts about hand washing - why it's important, when to do it, and, most important, how to do it properly. Along the way, students also learn about microorganisms, viruses, and bacteria.
Kindergarten to Grade 3, Intermediate (Grades 4-6) (PI)
Teacher's Guide Available online from CRC Catalogue
DVD, 2008
Mythic Productions
Subjects: Health, Health Promoting Schools, Hygiene
Global Issues for Students Series (7 DVDs)
This series provides an indepth analysis of current world problems. Sparked by technology such as the Internet, we have entered a new era of globalization — a level of interconnection unprecedented in world history.
One of the most important results of this new wave of globalization is our heightened awareness of how the importance of human rights, the vast differences between rich and poor, the spread of disease, and the use of Earth's resources affect us all.
Programs in this series focus on modern global issues, their historical roots, and the exploration of varied viewpoints and solutions. Using comprehensive news footage and commentary from some of the world's leading experts, students will gain a greater understanding of the most important issues affecting the world today. Online Guide.
Africa: Challenges in the 21st Century (1700377, DV)
Genocide (1700378, DV)
Global Economic Issues (1700379, DVD
Global Environmental Issues (1700380, DV)
Global Science and Technology Issues (1700381, DV)
Human Rights (1700382, DV)
Latin America: Challenges in the 21st Century (1700383, DV)
Middle School (Grades 7-9), Secondary School (Grades 10-12)
DVD, Close Captioned, 2004
Schlessinger Media
Teacher's Guide Available Online in CRC Catalogue
HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY STUDENTS
The Curriculum Resource Centre has a number of new learning resources focusing on healthy habits, eating right and nutrition, body hygiene and dental care.
Titles include:
Beyond Nutrition: Eating for Health - DVD with Teacher's Guide (1700320) Middle, Secondary
Big Mac Under Attack - DVD (1700429) - Middle, Secondary
Dental Care for Pre-K to Age 12 - VHS - (8811849) - Primary, Elementary, Secondary
Germs and Viruses: A Self Defense Guide - DVD (1700448) - Intermediate, Middle, Secondary
Goofy's Health Hits - DVD with Online Teacher's Guide (1700419) - Primary
Healthy Appetites - VHS (8809940) - Intermediate, Middle, Secondary
Health and Nutrition - DVD (1700389) - Intermediate, Middle
Healthy Habits for Kids (Ages 7 to 12) - DVD (1700462) - Primary, Intermediate, Middle
Healthy Habits for Life - Body Hygiene - VHS(8811875) - Primary, Intermediate
Healthy Kids Learn Better: Comprehensive School Health - BCTF Lesson Aid (9902226) Primary to Secondary
Germs and Viruses: A Self Defense Guide - DVD (1700448) - Intermediate, Middle, Secondary
Janey Junkfood's Fresh Adventure! - DVD (1700288) - Primary, Intermediate
Janey Junkfood's Fresh Adventure! - VHS (8811801) - Primary, Intermediate
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR CHILDREN SERIES (9 DVDs)
Join archaeologist Arizona Smith and his young detective-in-training as they delve into the clues of the past to unlock mysteries of the world's ancient civilizations. Through spectacular recreations, beautiful location footage and illustrated maps, discover how ancient peoples lived, ate, dressed and worked. These civilizations were multifaceted, each with unique leaders, systems of government, trade, religion and culture. By exploring archaeological sites and artifacts, art, architecture, writings and even human remains, we understand how historians have come to know about life many centuries ago and how these civilizations influence our lives today.
 Ancient Aegean (1700352, DV)Ancient Africa (1700353, DV)
Ancient China (1700354, DV)
Ancient Egypt (1700355, DV)
Ancient Greece (1700356, DV)
Ancient Inca (1700357, DV)
Ancient Maya (1700358, DV)
Ancient Mesopotamia (1700359, DV)
Ancient Rome (1700360, DV)
Schlessinger Media
DVD, Close Captioned
Teacher's Guide Available Online in CRC Catalogue
THE PERIODIC TABLE FOR STUDENTS SERIES (5 DVDs)
Join us as we investigate the links between chemistry and real life, using the most successful arrangement of scientific data ever devised -- the modern periodic table! This fascinating series reveals layer after layer of meaning contained in this simple table with dynamic graphics and exciting lab footage. From the history of the table, to its organization and structure, to its many uses, The Periodic Table for Students examines the relationship between atomic structure and the properties of matter. Each title includes a closer look at some of the many patterns found in periods and groups of elements that combine to create the world around us.
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table (1700361, DV)
The History of the Periodic Table (1700362, DV)
Properties of Compounds (1700363, DV)
Properties of Elements (1700364, DV)
Using the Periodic Table (1700365, DV)
Middle and Secondary Students
DVD, Close Captioned
Teacher's Guide Available Online in CRC Catalogue
Schlessinger Media
Eyes of Nye - (13 DVDs)
Visionary science educator Bill Nye, creator of one of the most popular and effective science shows of all time, is back! In The Eyes of Nye—his brand-new series for teens and grown-ups—Bill explores the science behind important and sometimes controversial issues, from "Cloning" to "Pseudoscience," "Antibiotics" to "Addiction," and more.Disney presents The Eyes of Nye Classroom Edition DVDs for middle and secondary school students to hear from leading experts, analyze the facts, and evaluate the most controversial scientific issues. Bill covers the science behind today's cutting edge issues. Correlated to national science standards. The DVDs feature scene selection, printable educators guides, web links to additional resources, and clips correlated to activities in the on-disc educators
guide.
The Eyes of Nye - Addiction (1700173)
The Eyes of Nye - Antibiotics (1700174)
The Eyes of Nye - Astrobiology (1700175)
The Eyes of Nye - Cloning (1700176)
The Eyes of Nye - Genetic Diversity (1700177)
The Eyes of Nye - Genetically Modified Foods (1700178)
The Eyes of Nye - Global Climate Change (1700179)
The Eyes of Nye - Human Characteristics and Adaptations (1700180)
The Eyes of Nye - Nuclear Energy (1700181)
The Eyes of Nye - Population (1700182)
The Eyes of Nye - Pseudoscience (1700183)
The Eyes of Nye - Sports (1700184)
The Eyes of Nye - Transportation (1700185)
History's Turning Points Series (10 DVDs)
History's Turning Points I
Now on DVD, History’s Turning Points is a thirteen part series on decisive moments in world history. Each turning point in history has behind it a story and a set of principal characters whose dilemmas and conflicts form its dramatic core, and whose unique personalities influenced the outcome of events. How would the development of one of the world’s greatest civilizations, China, have been different without the ruthless ambition of it's first emperor, Chin? Would the British have won Quebec in the eighteenth century without the tenacity and devotion to duty of General John Wolfe? New facts, often from indigenous sources, have emerged to add to our understanding of these crucial events and these, together with the latest historical research and documented first-hand accounts, bring each turning point vividly to life.
 Battle of Salamis, The Great Wall of China (1700027)Battle of Actium, Conquest of Spain (1700028)
Black Death, Siege of Constantinople, Conquest of the Incas (1700029)
Marriage of Pocahontas, Battle for Canada, Zulus at War (1700030)
Battle of Tsushima, Russian Revolution, Atomic Bomb (1700031)
History's Turning Points II
This best selling series offers thirteen journeys into moments in time that changed the course of history. These docu-dramas, with dramatizations carried out at the actual sites of the events and some newly released historical footage, provide perspectives of these events that only visual interpretations of the latest in historical research can provide. Fly with the Wright Brothers, storm the Bastille, learn how television was created and what it meant to the war in Vietnam. All these things and more, in the educational hit series History's Turning Points II.
The Plot to Kill Hitler, Revolution in Paris (1700032 )
Search for Troy, The Television Explosion (1700033 )
Rise of the Mob, Shot Started the Great War, Spanish Armada(1700034)
The Incredible March, Battle of Britain, First Flight(1700035)
Napoleon Invades Russia, Crisis in Korea, Battle for Vietnam (1700036)
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