Washoe County Library System

Get the inside scoop on the world's most fascinating creatures! Meet a beekeeper. Peek inside a beehive. Find out how some bees make honey. Learn more than thirty fun facts about these busy insects.

From deserts to forests to inside your living room, spiders are everywhere! You can spot the sticky webs that they weave to catch their dinners. Spiders can be many different colors and move in surprising ways. Some roll across the sand. Others walk on water! In SPIDERS! , TIME For Kidsʼ unravels the mysteries of these amazing eight-legged creatures.

Simple experiments give a hands on approach to studyinig sunlight, air temperature, and atmospheric pressure to help explain how events that occur miles about Earth's surface produce different types of weather.

Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams, and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts, providing them with a model for how to appropriately use the words. Related words are also used and reinforced with visuals and text.

Magnets can be found in many objects that we use every day. Not only are they located in man-made objects, but magnetic materials can be found in nature as well. In fact, the mineral, magnetite, was found to have magnetic properties long before humans learned how to make magnets on their own. By viewing the video and discussing the concepts presented, students will enhance their knowledge about magnetism.

A dynamic, high definition, science DVD defines and helps children explore the terms scientific theory, physics, scientific law, and model. Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts.

This dynamic, high definition, science DVD defines and helps children explore the terms unbalanced force, balance, balanced force, gravity and force. Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts.

It helps children explore the terms 'hurricane,' 'tornado,' 'tsunamis,' and 'greenhouse effect.' Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts providing them with a model for how to appropriately use the words....

Using real-world demonstrations and colorful graphics, this program teaches students the different properties of light, pertinent definitions and how light travels. Students will learn how different mediums can affect light resulting in reflection, refraction and absorption, and they will explore the color spectrum using prisms and paints.