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Personal health & hygiene

2005
Explores the importance of basic personal hygiene, including tooth brushing, bathing, and proper skin care. Also covers the benefits of getting enough sleep, eating well, and exercising sufficiently.

What is a community?

2006
Whether a big city, a small rural town, or someplace in between, defines a community as where people live, work, learn and play. Discover things in common, such as local businesses, schools, city hall and the library, as well as how communities may differ. See people who work hard to make neighborhoods and communities a good and safe place to live, and learn one's part in a community.

Hanukkah, Passover

2004
Explores the symbols, customs, rituals and folklore underlying the celebration of Hanukkah and Passover. Presented with traditional songs, folk tales, and arts and crafts.

Nutrition

2005
Explains how the body uses food and how to consider balance and moderation when making food choices. Also explores food groups, healthy food handling, how to read labels effectively, and influences on food choice such as culture, advertising, and food fads.

All about the water cycle

2005
Discusses the process by which water is recycled throughout the Earth, centering on the 3 stages of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Includes hands-on activities.

Lewis & Clark

great journey west
2002
Presents an historical reenactment of Lewis and Clark's cross-country trek, retracing the route the expedition traveled over 200 years ago and providing insight into the challenges and obstacles faced.

Iron will

1994
A young man enters a cross-country dog sled race in an attempt to win the grand prize that will save his family from financial ruin.

Ethan Frome

2003
Frome, a lonely, poverty-stricken, nineteenth-century New England farmer, has long and faithfully cared for his bitter, invalid wife, but when his wife's distant young cousin comes to take over as housekeeper, she and Frome succumb to forbidden passion with tragic results.

The great Gatsby

2003
Presents an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel which chronicles the empty lives of an elegant, equivocal, man of means who is enthralled with an evasive, self-indulgent woman.

Hamlet

2007
Presents Kenneth Branagh's full-text production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance upon his uncle after being visited by the ghost of his father.

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