How we see ourselves influences who we are. In this video, a student named McKenna helps viewers understand why good self-esteem is so important and what they can do to improve their own. Interviews with a developmental psychology expert and a high school basketball player reinforce why good self-esteem is a such valuable thing to have. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.

This program discusses the importance of developing a positive code of ethics in school. Subjects covered include positive ethics and their benefit to teens; negative effects of bad ethics; developing good ethics; cheating and "white lies"; negative effects of gossip and rumors; and ethics and their effects on one's future. A concise overview of the many ethical challenges faced by teenagers every day. Correlates to all applicable National and State...

For adolescents making the transition to young adulthood, risk-taking activities are an essential part of the process. With this program, you can help your students to distinguish between positive risks-like trying out for a sport or learning to drive-and negative risks as well as to seriously consider the ramifications of substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, road rage, and bullying/cyberbullying. The development and shaping of personal...

This program follows the social development of two young children, Max and Ellie, from the ages of two to five. Examples of multiple attachment, language development, imitation and identification, cooperative play, self-awareness, gender identification, and social conformity are captured on film and clearly identified with onscreen labels as the children broaden their awareness of the world through interactions with each other, family members, and...

Helping children to grow and bloom properly also means taking into account their biological rhythms. This program seeks out holistic approaches to education that more scientifically organize the school day and strike a better balance between intellectual and physical development. Educators, psychologists, a geneticist, a philosopher, and others consider topics such as the times of day when students are most ready to learn and the role of play in the...

Although facial and body hair are the most visible signs of male puberty, the process of becoming a man actually involves major organs like the heart and lungs. No one demonstrates that better than 14-year-old Jesse, whose physique is developing rapidly-while Mark, at almost the same age, poignantly awaits even the first hint of change. Meanwhile, 12-year-old choir member Dominic struggles to maintain the purity of his voice; 11-year-old Andy, to...

In this video, viewers will discover the basics of communication alongside students Anne and Ben. By speaking with a communications professor and seeing professional actors demonstrate the importance of body language, Anne and Ben learn how to communicate more clearly through active listening and nonverbal communication. Online communication-e-mail, texting, Facebook-is also examined. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards...

We assume all events are caused by something. Yet we happily refer to random chance be it a freak accident, or the state of quantum particles. Might causality be a fiction and inexplicable events written into the character of the universe, or with greater understanding could we find an explanation for everything? Sponsored by BBC Focus Magazine. The Panel Templeton prize winning cosmologist George Ellis, Imperial College string theorist Michael Duff...