Explores the form and function of various natural landforms, including mountains and hills, valleys, bodies of water, shores, desert landforms, and plains.
Introduces students to key concepts related to the economy of a community, discussing the difference between goods and services, wants and needs, and looking at the role of taxes, personal responsibility, and work.
A little girl decides to bring home tadpoles after hearing her mother read her a story about frogs, and they watch as the tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.
Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born.
Presents three stories by Robert McCloskey, including the title work about a family of mallard ducks that makes its home in Boston's Public Garden with the help of some non-feathered friends.
Although he is rich and successful, musical superstar Franz Liszt is restless until he meets the gypsy Josy, a gifted young musician, and wagers that he can turn the wayward boy into a world-class musician.
Ten-year-old Jamie O'Flaherty, in a Dublin jail for stealing, gets a chance to redeem himself, when he is bailed out by composer George Frideric Handel who needs Jamie to sing in the first performance of "Messiah" in 1742.
A twelve-year-old girl in 1875 Paris, whose father is a soldier stationed in Seville, learns the story of Carmen the gypsy from her piano teacher, composer Georges Bizet.
A dramatization of the 1957 Civil Rights stand at Little Rock Central High School, when Ernest Green, one of nine African-American students to integrate the all-white school, faced harassment in order to graduate.
