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Ensure the continued health and well-being of mother and baby as they make the transition from hospital to home. This video presents the most current need-to-know discharge information-including postpartum recovery tips, feeding basics, newborn care, and when to call healthcare providers. Content includes: Mother Care & Warning Signs, Baby Blues & Postpartum Mood Disorders, and Breastfeeding Basics. This special version includes all the same essential...
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Influenced and educated by her parents, Frankenstein’s author, Mary Shelley, grew up in a world of radical artists and writers. Her immortal novel explores various themes of early-19th-century Romanticism. This clip looks at Mary Shelley’s background and major influences on her thinking and writing, giving students of English literature a broader understanding of the nature and significance of this notable work.
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This video clip shows how three-year-old Max cannot close his zipper purse. Justin announces, “I will teach him.” As Justin starts to zip his own purse he tells Max, “Now watch this. I can do it. Hold on the bag and pull.” It highlights how young children teach by demonstration.
24) Snow Animals
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Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to survive, and even thrive, in winter. For animals this is the toughest time of year, and preparations start early. In autumn, Siberian chipmunks collect food in their cheek pouches to stockpile in their burrows, while caribou make an epic journey to new feeding areas away from the worst weather. With the arrival of winter, the American bobcat has to...
25) Tricycle Tour
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In this video clip, three-year-old Ella enjoys helping her younger friend Grace, have a ride on a tricycle. In her leadership role, Ella is challenged to guide the tricycle with a seated passenger. Notice that Ella is able to maneuver the tricycle more easily by pushing it backward.
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In this video clip, four-year-old Dusk and his friends are interested in building a track for their racecars. As a provocation, some of the chairs are lined up in the classroom. The children see this line of chairs as a good location for their track. Dusk decides to extend the line of chairs and recruits his friends to help. Listen as he repeats the words “more, more, more!” Watch how Marty responds and how the boys get to work, spurred on by...
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This video shows two year olds initiating a game of Peek-a-Boo on the playground. It begins with two toddlers playing Peek-a- Boo over a fence. While they are enjoying this game, a third child attempts to join by popping up on one side of the partition. When this is unsuccessful, he leaves. Other children join in and the rules change.
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We know that round spaces afford conversation, enclosed spaces afford intimacy, and high spaces afford achievement – for children as well as adults. However some features of a classroom might not be commonly identified for what they afford. In this video clip, four two-year-old children race back and forth between a wall mirror and a cushioned corner. A study of this clip reveals yet another affordance of space. Let’s call it “bounding events.”...
29) Pretend Washing
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When children act out a scene in pretend play they let us know a great deal about their understanding of the physical and social world. Take for example, this video clip of two three-year-old girls pretending to wash their hands. It shows that they understand that washing requires a back and forth scrubbing action, a movement not required when you are simply rinsing your hands or warming your hands. It also provides a sense of their strategies for...
30) Asia
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What happened when early humans ventured out of Africa and into Asia? Where did they go and whom did they meet along the way? The latest evidence suggests they left far earlier than previously thought and interbred with other types of ancient human such as Homo erectus, Neanderthals and also the Denisovans, whose existence was established only five years ago when geneticists extracted DNA from a tiny fragment of finger bone. Because these ancient...
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In this video clip, a two-year old demonstrates Executive Function by deliberately working to solve a problem. Watch as the child persists for more than two minutes in her efforts to put on her shoes. Notice that the girl has already invented strategies to make the task more manageable. In the context of Executive Function, the child evidences her ability to break the problem down into smaller steps, or subfunctions. Although the goal is clear, the...
34) Sick Baby
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This video clip shows four year olds Emma, Brenna, and Julia caring for a baby with a ‘boo-boo’. Brenna animates the Mom (doll) who feeds the baby. Julia talks on the telephone. As the children explore their conceptions about friendship, illness, treatment, doctors, police officers, mommies, and telephone conversations, we learn how dramatic play supports children’s social and emotional development.
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In this video clip, two infants discover the joy of disappearing and re-appearing on opposite sides of a climb-through tunnel. In the second segment, the screen is divided into a replay of the peek-a-boo episode in the background and on the lower left we see a clip of the boy looking at this same episode on a computer screen. We see the boy stoop several times while he looks at the peek-a-boo episode on the computer. His actions can be seen as evidence...
36) Differentiation
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This video explores what differentiation is and gives three differentiating strategies to use in the classroom.
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In this video clip, five year olds Golden and Emma are playing a game of checkers. Golden is teaching Emma how to play. Notice how patient and flexible he is as he tries to explain the rules and she doesn’t quite follow. Golden seems to demonstrate an understanding that Emma is making sense of the game in her own way. Notice the different ways he scaffolds her learning.
38) Infant Climb
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This video clip shows two infants crawling and climbing in their classroom, illustrating how infants explore their world with their whole bodies.