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An illustrated overview of military life that provides information on training, intelligence, weaponry, troops, prisoners of war, guerrilla fighting, and more. Includes clip-art CD.

Uses photographs to offer a detailed look at different types of rocks and minerals, exploring how they are created and their many uses. Includes a CD-ROM with clip art.

An overview of the universe that covers the planets of our solar system, Earth's moon, asteroids, meteors, the Milky Way, star birth and death, and other topics; and features colorful illustrations, diagrams, and satellite images. Includes wall chart and CD-ROM with clip-art.

Contains a video presentation that explains parts of a whole, converting fractions and decimals, adding and subtracting fractions, equivalent fractions, common denominators, working with decimals, and fractions and decimals together; and includes a CD-ROM with a teacher's guide, quizzes, handouts, and classroom materials.

A collection of inspirational quotes and reflective sayings designed to influence, encourage, and motivate educators, with illustrations on the accompanying CD-ROM that can be used in PowerPoint presentations, memos, newsletters, banners, and more.

Contains 125 mini-lessons, which take twenty minutes or less to complete and include activities, that are designed to help students in third through sixth grade better understand bullying, addressing how to manage anger, resolve conflict, build empathy, and get along. Includes a CD-ROM.

Presents teaching strategies, reproducible worksheets, and activities designed to help students ages nine through sixteen master the basic math skills they might be struggling with. Includes a CD-ROM with additional games, activities, and resources.

Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.

This Discovery Channel series narrated by Oprah Winfrey contains 12 chapters that can each be watched alone. The chapters deal with concepts of adaptation by focusing on a specific example. The adaptations adressed include life cycle, survival through schooling, speed, and camouflage, competition for resources, gills, symbiosis, and habitat specialization. The featured fish include: silvertip shark, fringehead, mudskipper, flying fish, convict fish, stream goby, barbels, clownfish, anchovies, sardines, sea dragon, and snapper.

Offers advice to school library media specialists on how to write grants to obtain technology and other materials and services for library media centers; and outlines the entire grant application process, from idea to submission, along with a CD of examples of funded grants, sample resumes, and fund-raising materials.