Introduces students in grades five through eight to the similar characteristics all mammals share as well as the features that make them different, describing how they survive in different environments and why mammals are more advanced than other animals.
Discusses the crucial events that occur during birth, growth, maturation, and reproduction in the lives of various animal species; investigates the transformation of a milkweed bug from larvae to adult step by step; and examines the captive breeding program for endangered cats at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Examines the evolution, physical characteristics, behaviors, environments, and life cycles of amphibians, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders.
Beginning with Darwin's revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution--the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion.
Contains two episodes of the CBS News series "You Are. There" which reconstructed significant historical events and presented them as on-the-scene news stories, looking at Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941.
Contains two episodes of the CBS News series "You Are There" in which significant historical events are reconstructed and presented as on-the-scene news stories, looking at the capture of John Wilkes Booth twelve days after the assassination of President Lincoln, and the first Texas oil strike in 1901.
Presents a historical recreation of D-Day, June 6, 1944, as American, British, and Canadian troops from fleet of 4,000 ships invade Western Europe from the coast of France and begin an assault on Hitler's Atlantic wall.
Contains two episodes of the CBS News series "You Are There" which uses dramatic reenactments and real reporters to provide viewers with an inside look at the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and take them to the scene of the Gettysburg Address.
