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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Rusty, Pam , and the crew teach children what is needed to help stop fires from starting: a smoke alarm, a fire sprinkler, and 911. Includes information on where to locate a fire alarm and how to maintain it; how fire sprinklers work and why they're important; and how to correctly use 911.
9) Mr. Pip
Pub. Date
[2014], p2011
Description
Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its brutal civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and...
12) Inherit the Wind
Pub. Date
©2002.
Description
A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom. This film was nominated for four Oscars and two Golden Globes in 1961.
18) Earth's crust
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
In Earth's crust, Bill Nye goes to the depths of the Earth (literally) to explain how the Earth's surface and its inner mantle differ.