| How life on earth began is one of those questions everyone, including children, wonder about. Without getting too technical or scientific, children in this program approach the topic by looking at matter and how advances in technology are allowing scientists and physicists to look further in space and deeper into the tiniest parts of matter. They are making discoveries that let us go back billions of years, to help us understand what all living things are made of and to have a better idea of how life as we know it originated. 06DR PI 11 min. |
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"This production makes use of student drawings and
student narrators. Classroom teachers Maria Louisa Bedin, Gabriella Pelli,
and Franco Panora should be congratulated for their efforts because this was
undoubtedly a wonderful learning experience for their classes." -EMRO
Review Why do people have different skin colors? Why do birds have wings and people don't? Why aren't we all alike? These are genetic questions that kids often wonder about and in this program kids help kids understand it's all a matter of DNA and RNA. They show that DNA is like an architect; but instead of building houses, it builds living things. It builds them by communications to the cell using only 4 letters in its alphabet; making 3-letter words; then sentences. Messenger RNA copies down sentences that DNA gives and tells the cell the work it has to do. This "language" is a blueprint for each of us and affects who we are and what we look like. 06DR PI 11 min. |
| Kids love to learn about astronomy and the solar system. In this program they discover the sun is our private star that gives us life every day. With its mass force it keeps all the planets in place. It's like a big game that has four rules (forces): the "Force of Gravity," a friendly force that helps planets spin, keeps them all together, and holds everything in place; the "Electromagnetic Force" that says positive and negative attract each other; like two magnets it holds the atoms of all matter together; "Strong Nuclear Force" that comes from the nucleus of the atom; like glue it holds the core together; "Weak Nuclear Force," which controls the tiniest particles in the nucleus and keeps the particles in the nucleus from crashing into each other. 06DR PI 11 min. |
| Why does the Earth remain suspended in the air? What makes the earth go round? Why does the Earth go around the Sun? These are the kinds of questions all children ask and wonder about. In this program children use experiments to help children visualize the wonders of gravity, mass or density, and weight. Planets and stars we see make "funnels" in space, which are like their "voices"; the heavier or denser the star or planet, the bigger the funnel, the louder its voice. Different sizes and densities affect how all the heavenly bodies move in space. 06DR PI 11 min. |
| Children are curious about all kinds of things, and in this program they learn about how they learn. They discover it takes much more that just "brains" to learn, people also use their senses, their bodies, and their desire for knowledge. Kids see that learning is a natural thing that can be a wonderful experience. And they can learn from all kinds of things, such as books, television, radio, from all kinds of people, such as relatives, teachers, librarians, and friends, and from all kinds of experiences, such as discussions, experiments and using instruments. 06DR PI 11 min. |
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"Highly Recommended. This unique and succinct program is
narrated by the voices of different children. The visuals, drawn by
children, are clear and informative. The organization of information is
clear and logical, and the topics are discussed in terms that young children
will understand." -School Library Journal Where is intelligence located? What are our brains made of? Are there machines that can think like us? These are the kind of questions children help children understand in this program. First, they learn that the brain is like a three-story house consisting of the spinal cord, the brain itself, and the cerebral cortex. Each is clearly explained. Then we see the brain is divided into two parts, two hemispheres, and is connected by millions of nerve cells or neurons. Neurons make thousands of exchanges per second, know as synapses, and the more that take place the better a person understands. 06DR PI 11 min. |