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Why Kids LOVE eFantasmic
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NOVA from PBS Videos are now online. These are actual videos that your child can watch online! You can also get these videos from your local library for your convenience.
Each video is divided up into chapter, so your child doesn’t have to do it all at once. Each chapter also includes written transcript, so your child can also read about each chapter as well as watch the video!
This way your child can watch the videos online anytime, or check them out from your local library. Almost every library on the planet includes these videos.
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This one-hour program is divided into five chapters. Child prodigy and naturalist E.O. Wilson has made some astonishing discoveries based on these amazing little creatures.
Everything from how he takes a larger perspective view of things to solve problems, the chemical language of ants, their sociobiology, and the future of our planet. |
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Curriculum Price: $8.95 + Free Instant Delivery -or- FREE With Subscription
Online Resource Link: This curriculum is based on the online video at the PBS website, or from your local library. Your child will watch the video (online or DVD), then use this curriculum to learn more, and create Portfolio Sheets.
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SEEING THE BIG PICTURE Ant expert E.O. Wilson has spent his career studying tiny creatures. Yet what sets him apart is his ability to step back and see the grand scheme of things.
running time 9:55
Curriculum Includes: Parents Guides, Basic Vocabulary Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Vocabulary Discussion Sheets, Basic Concepts Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Concepts Discussion Sheets, Pre-Reading Parents Guide, Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets, Establish Purpose Worksheets, Chart Of Retention Worksheets, Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets, Power Reading Parent’s Guide, Power Note Taking Worksheets, Final Eval Worksheets, 2 Crossword Puzzles, 2 Decoder Challenge Puzzles, 2 Word Searches, 2 Missing Word Puzzles, 2 Spelling Scrambles, and more!
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Curriculum Price: $8.95 + Free Instant Delivery -or- FREE With Subscription
Online Resource Link: This curriculum is based on the online video at the PBS website, or from your local library. Your child will watch the video (online or DVD), then use this curriculum to learn more, and create Portfolio Sheets.
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THE CHEMICAL LANGUAGE OF ANTS Newly appointed to Harvard, Wilson ignores charges by molecular biologists that his work with ants is mere "stamp-collecting." He goes on to discover ants' extraordinary means of communication, which opens up whole new areas of study. running time 10:05
Curriculum Includes: Parents Guides, Basic Vocabulary Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Vocabulary Discussion Sheets, Basic Concepts Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Concepts Discussion Sheets, Pre-Reading Parents Guide, Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets, Establish Purpose Worksheets, Chart Of Retention Worksheets, Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets, Power Reading Parent’s Guide, Power Note Taking Worksheets, Final Eval Worksheets, 2 Crossword Puzzles, 2 Decoder Challenge Puzzles, 2 Word Searches, 2 Missing Word Puzzles, 2 Spelling Scrambles, and more!
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Curriculum Price: $8.95 + Free Instant Delivery -or- FREE With Subscription
Online Resource Link: This curriculum is based on the online video at the PBS website, or from your local library. Your child will watch the video (online or DVD), then use this curriculum to learn more, and create Portfolio Sheets.
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SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ITS DISCONTENTS Wilson realizes that the chemicals governing an ant's behavior must have a genetic basis. Does this hold true for other animals, including humans? His answer, the 1975 book Sociobiology, unleashes a firestorm of controversy. running time 8:34
Curriculum Includes: Parents Guides, Basic Vocabulary Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Vocabulary Discussion Sheets, Basic Concepts Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Concepts Discussion Sheets, Pre-Reading Parents Guide, Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets, Establish Purpose Worksheets, Chart Of Retention Worksheets, Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets, Power Reading Parent’s Guide, Power Note Taking Worksheets, Final Eval Worksheets, 2 Crossword Puzzles, 2 Decoder Challenge Puzzles, 2 Word Searches, 2 Missing Word Puzzles, 2 Spelling Scrambles, and more!
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Curriculum Price: $8.95 + Free Instant Delivery -or- FREE With Subscription
Online Resource Link: This curriculum is based on the online video at the PBS website, or from your local library. Your child will watch the video (online or DVD), then use this curriculum to learn more, and create Portfolio Sheets.
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PRESERVING LIFE ON EARTH As the controversy slowly dies down, Wilson turns his attention to a new crisis: the ongoing loss of biodiversity. In the Florida Keys, he undertakes a groundbreaking experiment that provides data critical to the new field of conservation biology. running time 11:06
Curriculum Includes: Parents Guides, Basic Vocabulary Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Vocabulary Discussion Sheets, Basic Concepts Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Concepts Discussion Sheets, Pre-Reading Parents Guide, Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets, Establish Purpose Worksheets, Chart Of Retention Worksheets, Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets, Power Reading Parent’s Guide, Power Note Taking Worksheets, Final Eval Worksheets, 2 Crossword Puzzles, 2 Decoder Challenge Puzzles, 2 Word Searches, 2 Missing Word Puzzles, 2 Spelling Scrambles, and more!
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Curriculum Price: $8.95 + Free Instant Delivery -or- FREE With Subscription
Online Resource Link: This curriculum is based on the online video at the PBS website, or from your local library. Your child will watch the video (online or DVD), then use this curriculum to learn more, and create Portfolio Sheets.
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78 YEARS YOUNG Now in his sixth decade at Harvard, Wilson launches his Encyclopedia of Life and continues writing books and actively campaigning to protect what's left of the world's endangered ecosystems. running time 10:41
Curriculum Includes: Parents Guides, Basic Vocabulary Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Vocabulary Discussion Sheets, Basic Concepts Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Concepts Discussion Sheets, Pre-Reading Parents Guide, Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets, Establish Purpose Worksheets, Chart Of Retention Worksheets, Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets, Power Reading Parent’s Guide, Power Note Taking Worksheets, Final Eval Worksheets, 2 Crossword Puzzles, 2 Decoder Challenge Puzzles, 2 Word Searches, 2 Missing Word Puzzles, 2 Spelling Scrambles, and more!
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This one-hour program is divided into five chapters. This video is about the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs.
This video covers from the beginning when Spanish explorers of 1774 rediscovered the temples and ancient hieroglyphs of the Maya to the process of actually deciphering the Mayan codes. |
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Curriculum Price: $8.95 + Free Instant Delivery -or- FREE With Subscription
Online Resource Link: This curriculum is based on the online video at the PBS website, or from your local library. Your child will watch the video (online or DVD), then use this curriculum to learn more, and create Portfolio Sheets.
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THE FORGOTTEN MAYA TEMPLES In 1774, Spanish explorer Jose Calderon rediscovers the temples of Palenque and the ancient hieroglyphs of the Maya, a people whose culture was decimated by the Spanish conquistadors. running time 9:11
Curriculum Includes: Parents Guides, Basic Vocabulary Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Vocabulary Discussion Sheets, Basic Concepts Discussion and Worksheets, Advanced Concepts Discussion Sheets, Pre-Reading Parents Guide, Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets, Establish Purpose Worksheets, Chart Of Retention Worksheets, Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets, Power Reading Parent’s Guide, Power Note Taking Worksheets, Final Eval Worksheets, 2 Crossword Puzzles, 2 Decoder Challenge Puzzles, 2 Word Searches, 2 Missing Word Puzzles, 2 Spelling Scrambles, and more!
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