This program reviews the changes brought by the Pilgrims, how the colonists established Williamsburg, and how settlers advanced into the West. More Details

This program is about how rules are linked to safety, that they are designed to support fairness and that there are consequences for breaking them. This helps the students see that the rules of their classroom community are just as important as the rules in their town. More Details

An environmental scientist who provides clean water to the city of Philadelphia explains how this water is used in homes, parks, and swimming pools and to fight fires. More Details

A family doctor explains that all kinds of people visit him in the medical center for check-ups and referrals to specialists. More Details

A firefighter named Kevin talks about his job, detailing his training as a young man to his present day-to-day activities. More Details

This program illustrates how the history of different geographic communities and the jobs that people do there are directly related to the environment. More Details

A pharmacist and a professor of pharmacy tell viewers what they need to know about medicines and drugstores. More Details

An enthusiastic recycling coordinator takes viewers through the recycling process for cans, plastics, and newspapers, emphasizing the useful products and hundreds of jobs that are created by recycling. More Details

A second-grade teacher explains that she loves observing how her students change over the course of the year. Her students relate why they love her and how she helps them learn. More Details

This program defines community in a global context that includes all the countries of the world and both urban and rural populations and stresses that diversity is the fundamental strength of all communities. More Details

Answering the question, "Why do people work?" this program introduces key economic concepts such as wants, needs, money, economy, goods, services, importing, and exporting. More Details

Violence touches almost every teenager in America. This dramatic program features interviews with, and profiles of, teens whose lives have been impacted by violence. More Details

What is the price of attaining the "perfect" appearance? Who sets contemporary standards of beauty? This Parents' Choice Award-winning program examines the growing trend of childhood obsession with body image. More Details

Recent surveys revealed that 160,000 children stay home from school every day because they fear what other kids may do or say to them. A new form of bullying prompted the creation of two words: Cyberbullying, cruelty on the Internet, and Bullycide, one child driving another to suicide. More Details

With technology comes great freedom, but also great responsibility. Within seconds of logging on to a computer, children may be exposed to graphic language, hurtful gossip, pornography, and predators. "Smart parents understand that if you live near water, you need to teach your child to swim," a cybercamp director observes in this essential program. "If you live in the Internet age, you need to teach your child how to be safe online." More Details

This shattering program explores the different reasons why kids drink and reveals how alcohol affects kids differently than adults. More Details

In this compelling program, overweight and formerly obese teens share the agony of being subjected to verbal and physical bullying. They discuss the devastating impact being an overweight kid in America has on their self-esteem. More Details

This important program asks if troubled kids act the way they do because they feel isolated and unconnected to those around them. More Details

Teen addicts speak in their own words about how their lives spiraled out of control after using drugs. More Details

This eye-opening program illuminates how this abuse is skyrocketing among teenagers. It is estimated that four million Americans, ages 12 and up, are using over-the-counter and prescription medicine for non-medical reasons. More Details

Viewers will hear the powerful true stories of kids who have struggled with self-injury, from Andrea, whose legs bear scars from razor blade cuts, to Chad, a bright and athletic student who ultimately took his own life. This compelling and emotional program explores the causes of these dangerous behaviors, and emphasizes the importance of children communicating their pain so they can get the help they desperately need. More Details

There are an estimated three million cases of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) a year among teenagers alone. This essential program offers straight talk about STDs and the heavy price young adults are paying for having unprotected sex. More Details

The pain bullies cause is not always physical, and the weapons they use are often invisible: teasing, exclusion, and name-calling. Their victims may experience a loss of confidence, a drop in grades, and a fear of people and school. In this wrenching program, bullies and victims speak out about the nature of bullying and its devastating legacy. More Details

"Teens Beating the Odds" reinforces the positive role parents can play in developing their children's self-confidence by reassuring them that obstacles are not permanent, pervasive, or personal. More Details

This eye-opening program features positive examples of spoiled kids who turned their lives around when they learned the difference between what they need and what they want. More Details

This program explores how peer pressure can cloud judgment, and distinguishes between positive risks that are a normal part of childhood development and negative risks that could have lifelong implications. More Details

Whose prayer is America’s prayer? Lincoln’s great second inaugural address exemplified America’s civil religion at its best when he said, "the prayers of both could not be answered . . . the Almighty has his own purposes," that Americans must "achieve . . . lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." But some historians say an interventionist American civil religion also exists that may not set the example of America as "the city on the hill," in its own or the world’s eyes. More Details

These gripping, unflinching programs feature true stories and real adolescents having frank discussions that allow kids to confront and solve issues they face every day. More Details

This eleven-part series shows seven of the helpers on whom communities depend. Each community helper discusses his or her role and how it relates to children's lives. Five programs show how history, size, and geography reveal differences and similarities in communities and how rules and work help communities serve most people's needs. More Details

Teenage narrators introduce and explain the New Food Pyramid stressing that diet and exercise are the keys to looking and feeling good and developing self-esteem. They explain why Americans need a New Food Pyramid and the significance of the shape of the pyramid and the stairway to the left of the icon. More Details

Fast-paced game show for 4-8 year olds, introduces the USDA New Food Pyramid and its six categories: Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk Products, Meat & Beans and Oils (or fats). Each food group is briefly introduced, then food facts are reinforced in game show questions and follow-up activities that isolate weights and measures. More Details

This program identifies all the major bones, muscles, joints, and cartilage in the human body, how they work together, and how to care for them. More Details

This program shows how the inhalation and exhalation of oxygen works with the blood system and how smoking pollutes it is then shown. More Details

This program explores how the digestive system works and how to use the food chart to eat healthfully, also revealing all the physiological details of the esophagus, the large and small intestines, and the stomach. More Details

This program describes how blood circulates through arteries, veins, capillaries, and valves. Also covering the effects of infection, nutrition, exercise, and smoking. More Details

This program shows what constitutes sexual harassment in the school environment, as well as positive ways to deal with it. The information will appeal to contemporary viewers. More Details

This program describes sexual harassment in a manner appropriate to pre-teens and young teens. Provides examples of inappropriate behavior, as well as ways to deal with them. More Details

This series covers the skeletal/muscle system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, and the circulatory system, demonstrating to viewers the structure and processes of their bodies. More Details