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Energy Ant
Animated presentation on why we must conserve energy resources. Energy Ant tells what energy is with everyday examples.
Grade Level: K-2
Running Time: 8 mins
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All About Conservation of Energy (Energy for Children Series)
Since fossil fuel supplies are limited and energy consumption is rising globally, it is essential that children understand that they can play as important a role in energy conservation as their parents and teachers do. Kids learn that by carpooling with friends, riding their bikes, turning off lights when they leave a room and recycling they are helping to reduce energy consumption. Young viewers will learn that renewable resources like the sun, wind and moving water are all promising energy resources, although each has drawbacks. Kids will also discover that garbage, a kind of biomass, can be an energy resource too!
Grade Level: K-4
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Common Ground: The Water, Warth, and Air We Share
Based on the book written and illustrated by Molly Bang, as well as introduced and read by the author. An allegorical story of an overgrazed town commons teaches children about the concepts of conservation and responsibility for natural resources and the Earth.
Grade Level: K-4
Running Time: 13 mins
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Let's All Recycle
Woody Woodpecker, Los Angeles County's official recycling mascot, explains the importance of the new "three R's": reducing what we throw away; reusing items whenever we can; and recycling household items, such as newspapers, aluminum, and glass. Youngsters learn that the Earth's resources are limited, and that their participation in conserving energy is valuable. Conserving through waste reduction and product reuse in addition to recycling is emphasized.
Grade Level: K-5
Running Time: 8 mins
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EE-YI-EE-YI-OH
Educating young children about energy efficiency and protecting the environment are easy with this entertaining animated video. In this classic barnyard tale, farm animals learn how to use energy wisely.
Grade Level: 1-6
Running Time: 11 mins
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More
More is a little video with a big message. In an entertaining, yet thoughtful way, it shows how our desire for "more" is destroying the Earth's resources. With the single word-MORE-and a series of animated images, the program provides a gentle warning. Technological advances, new products and processes can be helpful, but the resources of our world are finite. The program provides inspirational media collaboration for the reduce/re-use/recycle topic in Ecology, Earth Science, and Biology units, and a hot topic for discussion for Technology and Society units.
Grade Level: 3-6
Running Time: 4 mins
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Pigopolis
Children will want to use energy wisely after they see what happens to a group of greedy, energy-wasting pigs. Youngsters enjoy watching this animated video and learning about the important role energy plays in their lives.
(Companion booklet--Learning to Use Energy Wisely)
Grade Level: 3-6
Running Time: 13 mins
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Why We Conserve Energy: The Witch of the Great Black Pool
Unique animation in this video explains how many different machines are used in the Land of the Scatterpods and how the black soup (oil) is being used in excess. Emphasis is placed on how and why families should conserve energy.
Grade Level: 3-8
Running Time: 12 mins
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Learning About Ecology
This program focuses on the world of nature. The study of Ecology is defined as well as animal populations, communities, ecosystems, and habitats. Footage of animals in their natural habitat helps to explain the relationship between animals and their environment. Viewers see that what an animal eats determines its role in the habitat. People also have an important connection to nature. Showing how pollution can have a devastating effect on nature, viewers are encouraged to take care of the environment that we share with all kinds of animals and plants.
Grade Level: 4-8
Running Time: 13 mins
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Alternate Energy
This program is designed to fascinate and empower the viewer with ideas ranging from eco-tips for home and community to the challenges facing the global environment. It will focus the viewers attention on the importance of the environment in our daily lives as well as planet Earth's health for its inhabitants, including flora and fauna.
Grade Level: 6-12
Running Time: 60 mins
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Recycling (Earth Aid Series)
Ed Begley, Jr. demonstrates a wealth of innovative tips that cost nothing but help reduce waste through recycling, reuse and pre-cycling. In one day, the U.S. disposes of more than 90 million bottles and jars, 46 million cans and 25 million TV sets. Recycling has become a must in order to preserve the delicate balance of the natural systems that are vital to life on this planet.
Grade Level: 5-12
Running Time: 17 mins
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Energy Choices: A Changing Environment (Part 2)
This videotape and teacher's guide, developed as part of the ENERGY, THE PULSE OF LIFE series, presents factors that contribute to increased energy consumption in North America. The video uses original footage, archival material and animations as well as interviews and amusing musical sketches to cover the topics of environmental change and alternative energy sources. Subsequent segments examine the ability of the environment of absorb energy use, present examples of how we can conserve energy, and provide an overview of clean, alternative energy sources. In sample activities, students simulate a public meeting to discuss a new power plant, write a funny song about how to change energy use habits, and use data from their home's heating bills to calculate the payback period of using a high efficiency furnace.
Grade Level: 8-12
Running Time: 43 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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