Educational CD\'s & Videos

Dickens' beloved story of miserly Scrooge, ghostly visitors and human compassion. The 0. Henry and Bret Harte masterpieces make holiday literature year-round favorites on this masterful recording. Includes: A Christmas Carol; The Gift of the Magi; Dick Spindler's Family Christmas; Winner of: Film Advisory Board Award Storytelling World Award INDIE Finalist Booklist Editor's Choice Award Timeline: Victorian England and 1850 (California Gold Rush) Learn More

Filled with laughter, tragedy and astonishing triumphs, this storytelling biography will entertain and inspire listeners as they experience touching personal moments, Lincoln's famous wit, great ethical issues, military battles, and the complete Gettysburg Address. With vivid descriptions of Lee, Grant, Stephen Douglas, Mary Todd Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and more, one will remember anew why Abraham Lincoln holds a special place in our history and in our hearts. Approximately 70 Minutes. Includes: Pen and Paper; Young Abe Lincoln; Stephen Douglas and Mary Todd; The Run-up to War; Lincoln vs. Douglas; President Lincoln; War! Gettysburg and Vicksburg; The Gettysburg Address (full text); Victory and Loss; Abraham Lincoln and the Heart of America; Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Winner of: 2004 Children's Music Web Award Timeline: 1809-1865 (Civil War) Learn More

Mark Twain's humorous tale of childhood and adventure, burnished to gold by nostalgia, is one of America's most beloved stories. There are life lessons as adventures with pals Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher turn serious. This recording is filled with Twain's wise, witty observations of human nature. As surely as the mighty Mississippi, Tow Sawyer will carry you and your family on a journey you will never forget. Includes: Preface; Whitewashing the fence; Becky Thatcher; Huck Finn; In the Graveyard; Pirates; An Unexpected Witness; Buried Treasure; The Cave; Endings. Winner of the Film Advisory Board Award Timeline: 1840s (United States) Ages 7+. Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Learn More

These uproarious American folk stories will have you laughing out loud and pondering. You'll meet Paul Bunyan, taller than the trees and mightier than the rivers; Johnny Appleseed, whose gentle generosity make him a beloved legend; and Pecos Bill, whose outrageous Texas-sized exploits make him the greatest of all cowboys. There's even one of Jim's own tales, a tongue-twisting, hilarious tale of the Old West. The entire family will listen to this recording over and over again. Includes: Paul Bunyan; Johnny Appleseed; Pecos Bill; The Fastest Draw in the West. Winner of the Film Advisory Board Award. Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Ages 5+. Timeline: 1800s (United States) Learn More

The perfect recording when a child is ready to move beyond listening to music to spoken word. Features delightful tellings of Aesop's Fables, plus lively tales from Grimm, Chaucer and others. Includes: The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Lion and the Mouse; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Crow and the Pitcher; City Mouse and the Country Mouse; Goat Gets Away; The Cat Who Went to Church. Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Winner of the NAPPA Gold. Timeline: 300 BC (Aesop) through Renaissance Europe. Ages 3+. Learn More

Transports the listener to the magical world of the Arabian Nights. Scheherazade, who first spun the tales, leads into a selection of stories with a unique fascination. Includes: Scheherazade; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Fisherman and the Genie; The Bird Who Speaks. Winner of the 1990 Parents' Choice Gold Award. Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Ages 5+. Timeline: Medieval Arabia, Persia Learn More

Audio Memory® Math Addition Songs CD. Groove to the addition beat with 19 catchy songs! Get these songs stuck in your students’ heads, and they’ll always remember their addition facts. • Features 19 original songs created and produced by professional musicians and teachers • Teaches counting 1-20 and helps students transition from counting to adding • Reinforces addition facts from 1 + 1 to 9 + 9 • Uses catchy melodies and rhyming lyrics as mnemonic devices • Includes XX-page Activity Book with reproducible masters • Grades K+. Ages 5-7. From Educational Insights. Learn More

Audio Memory® Math Multiplication Songs CD. Groove to the multiplication beat with 22 catchy songs! Get these songs stuck in your students’ heads, and they’ll always remember their multiplication facts. • Features 22 original songs created and produced by professional musicians and teachers • Reinforces multiplication facts from 2 x 2 to 12 x 12 • Uses catchy melodies and rhyming lyrics as mnemonic devices • Includes XX-page Activity Book with reproducible masters • Grades 3+ From Educational Insights. Ages 8-11. Learn More

Audio Memory® States & Capitals Songs DVD. Groove to the geography beat with 9 catchy songs! Get these songs stuck in your students’ heads, and they’ll always remember their states and capitals. • Features 9 upbeat, original songs created and produced by professional musicians and teachers • Adds to the fun of the songs with animated graphics, creating a multi-sensory learning experience • Reinforces all 50 state and capital names and locations as students sing along with catchy melodies and rhyming lyrics that serve as mnemonic devices • Grades 3+. Ages 8-11 (Cover may not depict current edition offered for sale). Learn More

Date: 62 AD Setting: Ancient Britain and Rome Main Event: Roman Invasion of Britain Beric, a dashing, young British chieftain, must fight for liberty from the forests of his homeland, where he defies legendary Roman legions, to the Roman Colosseum, where he must employ gladiatorial skills to defend a persecuted Christian girl. G.A. Henty provides fascinating details of life in a Roman villa, in the imperial palace, and in the villages of the tribal Britons; and accurately shows the strengths that allowed the Romans to conquer their empire and the weaknesses that would end it. 9 Hours on 7 Cd's. Ages 7+. Read by Jim Weiss. Learn More

Enchanting favorite tales, plus delightful songs to dance to and sing along with. The Twelve Dancing Princesses (includes song: Dance Away Home) Snow White and Rose Red (includes song: Snow White and Rose Red) The Sleeping Beauty Winner of: •Pegasus Award •Film Advisory Board Award Timeline: Medieval/Renaissance Europe. Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Ages 5+ Learn More

Black Beauty Book and CD by Dorling Kindersley Classics. This edition, with is innovative use of photgraphy and narrative illustration, makes it possible for children of all ages to enter and enjoy the real world of Anna Sewell's original novel. Complete with music and sound effects. Learn More

Black Beauty Workbook & CD. Bring the Classics to Life Read-Alongs. These read-alongs have been adapted into 10 short chapters aimed at introducing students to great classic literature, while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Expertly paced narration provides sound effects to keep interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. Each book includes 100 comprehension questions that test for main idea, critical thinking, inference, recalling details, and sequencing. Contains 60 vocabulary exercises in modified Cloze format, and defines and uses new vocabulary in context, prior to each chapter. Includes exciting illustrations in every chapter and answer keys at the back of each book. Reading levels were measured by the Fry Readability Scale and written using McGraw-Hill's core vocabulary. Each audio CD includes a word-for-word reading directly from the chapter pages in the book broken into 10 chapters with exciting sound effects. Workbooks and CD's can be used together or independently of each other. Reading Level 2. Interest Level 2-adult, ESL, ELL

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Bring the Classics to Life Read-Alongs. These read-alongs have been adapted into 10 short chapters aimed at introducing students to great classic literature, while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Expertly paced narration provides sound effects to keep interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. Each book includes 100 comprehension questions that test for main idea, critical thinking, inference, recalling details, and sequencing. Contains 60 vocabulary exercises in modified Cloze format, and defines and uses new vocabulary in context, prior to each chapter. Includes exciting illustrations in every chapter and answer keys at the back of each book. Reading levels were measured by the Fry Readability Scale and written using McGraw-Hill's core vocabulary. Each audio CD includes a word-for-word reading directly from the chapter pages in the book broken into 10 chapters with exciting sound effects. Workbooks and CD's can be used together or independently of each other. Reading Level 4. Interest Level 2-adult, ESL, ELL.

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Bring the Classics to Life Read-Alongs. These read-alongs have been adapted into 10 short chapters aimed at introducing students to great classic literature, while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Expertly paced narration provides sound effects to keep interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. Each book includes 100 comprehension questions that test for main idea, critical thinking, inference, recalling details, and sequencing. Contains 60 vocabulary exercises in modified Cloze format, and defines and uses new vocabulary in context, prior to each chapter. Includes exciting illustrations in every chapter and answer keys at the back of each book. Reading levels were measured by the Fry Readability Scale and written using McGraw-Hill's core vocabulary. Each audio CD includes a word-for-word reading directly from the chapter pages in the book broken into 10 chapters with exciting sound effects. Workbooks and CD's can be used together or independently of each other. Reading Level 1. Interest Level 2-adult, ESL, ELL.

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Building Thinking Skills® Level 1 Software for Grades 2-3 provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. In this software adventure, you and your team of critical thinkers must complete the verbal and figural activities in each of the ten underground levels to rescue Dr. Cognito and restore order to the lab. With both verbal and graphic instructions, this lively adventure nurtures independent learning, superior thinking, and communication skills. Features 38 activities, over 800 questions Can be played in adventure mode or practice mode Detailed spoken and graphical instructions for each question On-screen and printable guide Adjustable scoring rubric for varied abilities Self-grading On-screen and printable student data Saves unfinished activities Fun word search reward games On-screen and printable reward certificates System Requirements: Platform: Windows® 7/Vista/XP/2000/Me/NT/98; Media: CD-ROM; CPU: 200 MHz or faster; RAM: 128MB; Platform: Macintosh® OS X (10.3+); PowerPC/Intel based Mac; Media: CD-ROM; CPU: 200 MHz or faster; RAM: 128MB; Learn More

Building Thinking Skills® Level 2 Software for Grades 4-6 provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. In this software adventure, you and your team of critical thinkers must complete the verbal and figural activities in each of the ten underground levels to rescue Dr. Cognito and restore order to the lab. With both verbal and graphic instructions, this lively adventure nurtures independent learning, superior thinking, and communication skills. Features 43 activities, over 900 questions Can be played in adventure mode or practice mode Detailed spoken and graphical instructions for each question On-screen and printable guide Adjustable scoring rubric for varied abilities Self-grading On-screen and printable student data Saves unfinished activities Fun word search reward games On-screen and printable reward certificates System Requirements: Platform: Windows® 7/Vista/XP/2000/Me/NT/98; Media: CD-ROM; CPU: 200 MHz or faster; RAM: 128MB; Platform: Macintosh® OS X (10.3+); PowerPC/Intel based Mac; Media: CD-ROM; CPU: 200 MHz or faster; RAM: 128MB; Learn More

Ancient stories of bards and warriors told with passion and sensitivity, enhanced with music from acclaimed pianist, Paul Machlis. Includes: The Bard; Dectera and Fifty Maidens; Cuchulain's Name; The Wooing of Emer; Angus's Dream; Oisin's Journey; Finn MacCoul and the Battle for Tara. Winner of the Nappa Gold Award, Film Advisory Board Award, and Storytelling World Award. Timeline: 500 AD (Ireland). Read by engaging storyteller Jim Weiss. Ages 7+. Learn More

Critical Thinking in United States History uses fascinating original source documents and discussion-base critical thinking methods to help students evaluate conflicting perspectives of historical events. This process stimulates students' interest in history, improves their historical knowledge, and develops their analytical skills for assessment tests. Methods: For each lesson, students examine two or more perspectives of an event using analysis and evaluation skills such as identifying types of reasoning and evaluating sources. Through debating historians' evidence, inferences, analogies, and assumptions, students come away with a deeper understanding of specific events. They also learn to examine any historical, or current, event with a more critical mind. Instruction/Answer Guide includes objectives, teaching suggestions, focus questions, and answers. Use of the guides is highly recommended. This Book on CD allows you to install and print the Student book and the Instruction/Answer Guide from your own printer. This book on CD is a useful alternative to photocopying. 136 pages. Grades 6-12. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Eyewitness Amphibian DVD. Imagine leading a double life - in water and on land. Leap into the fascinating world of frogs, toads, and salamanders, and get a close-up look at the amazing variety of colors, shapes, and sizes in the amphibian family. Narrated by Martin Sheen. 30 minutes. DVD. Learn More

Eyewitness Fish DVD. Based on the revolutionary book series, this DVD collection is the ultimate guide to natural history. Journey into a three dimensional "virtual museum" where live action photography creates the sensation of being inside the picture. State of the art special effects and stunning graphics bring the natural world to life. Narrated by Martin Sheen. 30-minute DVD.

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Eyewitness Insect DVD. Examine the wonders of the insect world through macrophotography and startling 3-D graphics that reveal the true importance of these amazing creatures. Narrated by Martin Sheen. 30 minutes. DVD. Learn More

Eyewitness Ocean DVD - Based on the revolutionary book series, this DVD collection is the ultimate guide to natural history. Journey into a three-dimensional "virtual museum" where live action photography creates the sensation of being inside the picture. State of the art special effects and stunning graphics bring the natural world to life. Narrated by Martin Sheen. Learn More