Science
...Any Time, Any Place
Designed to assist every child care worker to become a more skilled and competent professional, through observing teachers and children in action in different child care settings, with multicultural, multiethnic children three to five years old.
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Guidance and Discipline
Observe child care in action and listen to the lively and informative discussions of expert teachers observing along with you.
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Animals
Recognizes children's fascination for animals. We observe them prepare a worm house, take nature walks to find insects, spiders, worms and butterflies. Discoveries are made about how living things move, how their bodies are covered with fur, hair, scales or shells; how they have differing numbers of legs and how they eat specific foods. 2000 (28 minutes) |
Learning Environment
Structuring the environment and organizing the schedule to reduce conflicts and to guide young children to develop self confidence and self help skills. Includes balance between quiet and active activities, teacher-directed and child-initiated activities. Includes great tips for nap and story time and even how to use computers with different ages. 1994 (36 minutes) |
Curriculum
How your curriculum can more fully serve the needs and interests of e every child and improve discipline, too. "It's not the facts we teach, it how children feel about themselves as learners. That is the most important message we can give children through curriculum." 1994 (35 minutes) |
Teacher/Child Interaction
Helping children to develop self-discipline, problem-solving skills and a stronger sense of themselves. Included is the importance of modeling appropriate behavior, trying to stay away from "no", giving children options, arbitrating disputes, allowing children to express negative feelings and helping children to understand other viewpoints. 1994 (39 minutes) |
Plants
We observe children compare likenesses and differences of seeds. They plant seeds in soil or cotton bails to observe germination and growth. Teachers describe further exploration of different methods of propagation such as seed, leaf, root and stems. They also compare tasting raw and cooked fruits and vegetables. 2000 (28 minutes) |
The Human Body
An "up close and personal" look at children as they participate and learn in activities such as tooth brushing, hand washing, preparing and eating nutritious snacks and meals, resting and napping, and as they track their height. With outdoor play comes discovery of how bodies work, and how individual body parts function. As they use their five senses in exploring the natural and physical world, we see them begin to understand differences land likenesses between themselves and their classmates. 2000 (28 minutes) |
Weather, Light and Shadows
The use of thermometers to track temperature change, how temperature affects the type of clothing to wear, using a lamp and screen to study shadow indoors, following bubbles to observe wind direction. The teachers describe other activities such as walking in the rain to sensitize children to the force of downpours, collecting snowflakes and playing with snow. 2000 (28 minutes) |
Motion and Machines
Children play and learn on inclines, make teeters and use workbenches. We observe them using an electricity board and experiment with magnets. They learn about angles or ramps and inclines and note change in speed of cars rolling down. 2000 (28 minutes) |
Water and Sand
Working in water, children experience objects sinking and floating, making waves, fill and empty containers and watch as paddle wheels illustrate the power of water in making things move. They get a hands-on learning experience with wet sand and dry sand, noting how both differ and what can be done with each. They also explore mud. 2000 (28 minutes)
$115.00 each vhs
$650 series of 6 videos |
Path to Math
Children develop higher-level thinking skills through their own efforts rather than through memorizing predetermined knowledge through rote learning. In these programs children use their sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch to gain general and specific information that will contribute to the development of concepts. |
| One To One Correspondence: ComparingGradually, a child recognizes that one group of things has the same number of things as another group. Sample activities include matching pairs, distributing materials, placing one toy on each of several block, returning materials to shelves. Children find a relationship between two things on the basis of some specific characteristic. Sample activities include playing with blocks (size, shape), sand (heavy, light), water (full, empty), cooking, (hot, colt, etc.) 1996 (21 minutes) |
Sets and Classification:
Seriation (Ordering)
Children put things together based on a characteristic; Classification: children join or separate sets. Seriation (ordering): Children compare more than two things put them in order in terms of common elements, learning that "three is more than two." |
Shape: Parts and Wholes
Children learn to recognize and name shapes by playing with toys in various shapes, eating varied-shape crackers, using shapes in creative activities, blocks, movements. Children learn wholes have parts. Later they learn that parts are fractions of wholes. Samples activities include experiencing things that have parts (bodies, cars, puzzles), separating sets (dishes, toys), dividing wholes (cookies). 1996 (28 minutes) |
Space: Measurement
Children learn relationships in space: direction, position, distance...and the use of space: organization, pattern, construction. Children use a formal or informal standard for determining length, weight, volume, and quantity. 1996 (29 minutes) |
Number and Counting:
Numerals
First rote counting, children recite numerals names in order; then rational counting. Children learn that each number symbol represents an amount, gradually putting recognition of numerals together with counting. 1996 (33 minutes)
$115.00 each vhs
$550 series of 5 videos |
The Teacher's View
This video deals with how teachers think about guidance and discipline, the influences affecting them in determining what they consider either acceptable or challenging behavior, and why they think children's behavior should be considered as "mistaken" rather than "wrong". Teachers discuss the importance of teamwork and staff support in helping them deal with the challenging behavior more prevalent in the new millennium. |
Coping With Challenging Behavior
Teachers describe the concept of positive guidance, and what they need to know about children before they find the appropriate techniques for dealing with challenging behavior. Teachers discuss how they help children learn problem-solving techniques as an alternative to challenging behavior. Also addressed is the issue and meaning of "time-out" and its use in the classroom. In addition, teachers raise their concerns in balancing individual vs. group needs.
$115.00 each vhs
$550.00 series of 5 videos |
Diversity
Four innovative training videos that were created especially for other child care professionals by experienced, caring practitioners from various ethnic backgrounds. They open minds, bring to light diversity issues, and improve parent-staff relations! |
Diversity and Communication
This program shows sample areas of disagreement (mostly around neatness/messiness and toileting) and people learning to understand and respect diversity. Through viewing diverse opinions among and across cultures, we see that disagreement is healthy and that even people of the same cultural background can have different ideas about how things should be done. 1996 (34 minutes) |
Diversity and Conflict Management
Conflict and discipline, children's privacy, and self-feeding is role-played, and subtle power plays can be seen. The conflict management process shown is called RERUN Reflect...Explain...Reason... Understand...Negotiate. 1996 (27 minutes) |
Diversity, Independence and Individuality
Focusing on diverse reactions to scenes of children learning to be independent individuals, this video shows how valuing independence and individuality define teaching approaches, feeding, toileting and napping practices. Examples are not necessarily how "things should be done," but were chosen for their potential to stimulate open discussion around important care giving issues. 1996 (30 minutes) |
Diversity: Contrasting Perspectives
Child caring days go more smoothly, parent relations improve, when staff can explore contrasting perspectives and respect those contrasts. This program depicts variations on themes of independence, inter-dependence and individuality in the delicate issues involved in day-to-day care giving. 1996 (29 minutes)
$115.00 each vhs
$420 series of 4 videos |
EMERGENT LITERACY:
• Origins & Skills
• The Role of Parents and Teachers
• Teacher Strategies & Assessments
• Activities In A Print Rich Environment
29 min./each . . . .Sr High, College, Adult
$115.00 each . . . $415.00 series of 4 titles |
VISUAL ARTS:
• Drawing & Finger Painting
• Painting
• Modeling
• Construction
29 min./each . . . Sr High, College, Adult
$115.00 each . . . $415.00 series of 4 titles |
