Depciting the importance of a good focus to a good game, this video clip shows children playing with a rimmed tray with a hole in the center. The empty container below clearly defines the goal of getting the ball to roll through the hole by tilting the tray. The tray is large enough to require a player on each side. To control the path of the ball the children need to split their attention between their own moves and their partners’ moves. An audience...

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.

In this video clip, three two-year-old girls enjoy playing an invented game. The girls work to coordinate their movements, accommodate a third player, and lend structure to their play by singing refrains from a familiar nursery rhyme.

This video clip shows how a young boy’s curiosity causes him to pull up to a standing position to see what he can see. As he crawls across the floor, Connor appears to know that he wants to stand, and he recognizes that the shelf on the opposite wall will give him support. Notice how the teacher reads his intentions as she moves the teddy bear so that Connor can see it without turning away from the shelf he is holding. She then gingerly offers Connor...

From jewelry to science to fashion, African visionaries are bringing concepts to reality.

This episode features an artist getting global attention for her embroidery work, a woman who is able to get huge details into paintings smaller than a penny, and a makeup artist who has made the human face her canvas.

This documentary looks at political, industrial, medical, and transportation revolutions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The American Revolution inspired other nations to revolt for freedom and liberty. The Industrial Revolution pioneered mass production, led to mass consumerism, and turned Britain into a world power. Steam powered engines and railway networks decreased travel time and facilitated urban migration. However, industrial megacities...

Beethoven's darker side is contrasted with his sense of humor in the development of Movement 4 of his String Quartet Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major. In the final episode of his musical education series, Maestro George Marriner Maull revisits a number of previously presented musical devices, such as sequence, that are found in the work. He explains the sonata form's ternary components - exposition, development, and recapitulation - and analyzes components...

Replacing our bestselling Better Breastfeeding, this comprehensive program instills confidence by emphasizing a woman's natural ability to breastfeed. Following International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations, this research-based teaching tool emphasizes how parents can improve their chances for breastfeeding success. Content includes: advantages of laid-back breastfeeding, skin-to-skin...

Energy is the strongest force in the universe. But where did it come from? This program covers the origins of energy, energy through the ages, physical and chemical changes, and the definition of energy. We’ll also explore energy in different forms, including fire and its discovery, calorific energy, the invention of machines, petroleum, windmills, photosynthesis, the Sun, energy reserves, and mechanical, electrical, and luminous energies.