Leapfrog Letter Factory Adventures: Great Shape Mystery

In this video, children see how Tad and Lily use what they know about 2D shapes to learn about 3D shapes. Sharing food provides a meaningful context to introduce fractions as equal parts of a whole. Children also observe many different ways to measure things.

Ounce of Prevention

Bugs Bunny and his friends teach children about safety regarding fires and other burn-causing injuries in the home.

Bookkeeping and You

An overview on how bookkeeping is an important skill, particularly when it comes to running a business, a farm, or your personal finances.

If You Made a Million

Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know! An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices Selection

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How Much is a Million?

With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not so quite so intimidating.

Martha Stewart Holidays: Martha's Halloween Ideas

Think Martha Stewart is a whiz at good things? Just wait until you see what she can do with bad ones. This collection of devilishly fun Halloween projects will get you geared for one of Martha's favorite holidays. Recipes and crafts include glow-stick spiders, white chocolate ghosts, jack-o'-lantern creatures, easy-to-make costumes and other fiendish things that go "boo" in the night. Create costumes & scary faces. Decorate with spiders; carve cool pumpkin creatures & whip up white chocolate ghosts.

Eebee's Adventures - Figuring Things Out

Based on the latest research on how babies learn and grow, eebee's adventures focus on the important developmental skills that form the foundation for all future learning. eebee's adventures encourage active learning-they are all about DOING! Each adventure is designed to help you and your baby transform everyday play and exploration into learning that lasts. Filled with real-world situations that babies can actually understand, build on and learn from, these adventures guide both you and your baby along the exciting path of social, emotional, cognitive and physical skills development. From turning a light on and off to building towers to scaling a pillow mountain, this series of adventures focuses on the learning that happens when a baby's developing motor skills support her natural curiosity and new found independence. (12 months and up)

Friends of Mine: “Boys and Girls”

A birdwatching trip inspires Max to ask questions about the different expectations we have for boys and girls. His friend Moira helps him challenge what we think it means to be a boy by teaching him a few ballet moves.

Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From”

Max learns about immigration and the meaning of home from his friend Srijoni, who shares her story of moving to Canada from Bangladesh when she was young.

Let's Go Luna!: Luna's Christmas Around the World

The kids believe Santa will never find them when the Circo gets stuck at the South Pole on Christmas Eve. Luna helps the kids work to save Christmas, learning about holiday traditions from around the world along the way.

Jay Can Do It

Shows how an 11-year old boy and his brothers share each other's interests and activities. Shows projects such as building a tree house, baking cookies and coloring Easter eggs. Suggests the character-building value of experimenting, creating and doing a job well.

Rock Odyssey: A Rocks & Minerals Revue

Share an exciting adventure with Sandy and Crystal as they go searching for "Mica's Magic Gemstone." Along the way to finding their treasure, they meet four very interesting characters: Mica - the tour guide, Sir Sediment - ruler of the sedimentary rocks, Iggy St. Igneous - guardian of the igneous rocks, and Matty Morphic - the metamorphic magician. Our characters use catchy songs to introduce Sandy and Crystal to the three major categories of rocks.

Facial Recognition

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Jesse: The First Year

For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.

LeapFrog: The Magnificent Museum of Opposite Words

Meet Scout and his friends, Violet, Eli, and Penny...best friends who have all kind of learning adventures along with their magical toy car, Axle. The friends are engaged in a hot game of "In other Words..." when they learn that the new Museum of Opposite Words is opening in their town today! Intrigued as to what opposite words might be, they hurry off to the museum. At the museum they find The Beaver Brothers struggling to get the exhibits completed in time for the Opening Night Gala and and the museum curator, Mr Polecat in full panic mode. Together the friends use vocabulary skills to unlock the clues and help the Beaver Brothers complete all of the exhibits in the nick of time!

Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)

Schoolhouse Rock!, the timeless collection of animated songs that taught an entire generation that "knowledge is power" is on DVD for in this Ultimate Collector's Edition 2-disc set. Now every day can feel like Saturday morning as you sing along with "I'm Just A Bill," "Three Is A Magic Number," "Interjections!" and the rest of your favorite tunes. Featuring an additional catchy animated song by the original series' creators, the 30th Anniversary Edition DVD rocks your house.

A Message from the East

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West, refute the notion of a class of civilizations and discover our shared humanity.

The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays

Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation.