Biomes Series

• Item # VLC036
• Copyright 2002
• For Grades 5-9
• 4x 20 minute Videos
• 4x Teacher's Guides

Specifically designed for the middle school science classroom, this 4-part series will help instructors teach difficult to understand concepts, differentiate instruction for diverse learners, and inspire the minds of students. Content is aligned to the curriculum and will help students prepare for the standardized science tests. Each 20-minute video includes on-screen questions, vocabulary words, and a 10-question quiz. The time saving teacher's guide includes student-learning objectives, standards correlations, lesson plans, preliminary and post assessments, laboratory investigations, and vocabulary activities. Integrate media assets into lesson plans by showing the entire 20-minute videos, short clips, or multiple animations and images. Custom multi-media formats include h.264, Windows Media video, and DVD. Correlated to the NGSS.

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"...Teachers will appreciate both the content and convenience of Life and Earth Science Series: Biomes...Visual Learning Company has made this product teacher friendly and designed it to fit well with a middle school student's attention span and interest." -- NSTA Recommends November 2005

Margaret Gorcyca, K-12 Teacher, Retired
National Science Teachers Association Recommends
November 2005

Titles Include:

Grasslands

This program explores the global distribution of grasslands, and the role that temperature, precipitation, soil type, and fire play in this biome. The different grasslands found in North America are... [more]

Deserts and the Tundra

Vivid footage of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts reveals climate, soils, plants, and animals. Special attention is paid to the adaptations of some desert organisms, which allow them to live in... [more]

Forests

Forests throughout the world are described including the northern coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, subtropical forest, and the tropical forest. The dominant trees, herbaceous plants... [more]

Water

Characteristics of various ocean zones, including variations in ocean temperature, salinity, and depth are discussed. The different groups of marine life and adaptations of plants and animals are... [more]