educational television programs

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.

Have you ever wondered exactly how our Universe is put together? How is it built? And how it actually works? This is ultimate guide to the Cosmos will show as never before the inner workings of our planet, the Solar System, the galaxies and the Universe itself. This series investigates the nuts and bolts of our cosmos, exploring a whole range of fascinating celestial phenomena and how they came to be the way they are. Experts and mind-blowing CGI, take viewers under the celestial hood to tell the greatest story of all--the story of how we and everything around us began.

Bonus program: How to build a beating heart: "Scientists are using tissue engineering to harness the body's natural powers to grow skin, muscle, body parts and vital organs, even hearts." -- video.nationalgeographic.com.

This season returns with interactive tests designed to mess with your mind and reveal the mechanics of your brain. Hosted by Jason Silva, the show features mind-bending and illusion-shattering experiments to reveal the mysteries of your brain.

Contains an episode of the television program "How It's Made," with behind-the-scenes footage that reveals the construction methods and materials used to create nails and staples, safety glasses, fabrics, and bicycles.

Contains "Cyberchase" segments that look at math topics, including patterns in nature, two- and three-dimensional geometry, direction and distance, and timekeeping, and show how math can help solve problems in the real world.

Collects eight episodes of the animated television program, "WordGirl," introducing sixteen vocabulary words, and following as WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face battle a variety of villains, including Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy, Dr. Two-Brains, Mr. Big, Lady Redundant Woman, and more.

Teaches about spiders and their hunting skills, the nocturnal activities of bats, and the mysteries of sound during a trip to a haunted house.