The following titles were added to the English Educational Video Collection in 2008 and 2009. Most of our programs in the Collection, are available free of charge to Québec’s English-language school network as well as for English As A Second Language teachers.
B) Secondary Level Youth & Adult Sector
D) Technical and Vocational Training
1. Inventing Flight (6 x 10 min. - Cycle 3)
Inventing Flight is a series that guides students through the science and history behind the Wright Brothers’ invention of powered flight.
Students explore the challenges that faced Wilbur and Orville Wright as they set out to be the first to conquer the skies. The Wrights’ goal was to build a practical flying machine. To do this, they approached the technical challenges by utilizing the process of observing, testing and refining.
Students engage in the same processes that the Wrights used, discovering answers to three critical problems of flight - lift, control and propulsion - just as the Wright Brothers did in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
Inventing Flight is an excellent resource for supporting inquiry-based science. It is activity-based. Students learn key science concepts and processes by flying kites, testing gliders and experimenting with helicopter propellers... then analyzing their results.
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Visions Of Flight (10 min.)
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Wright Time, Wright Place (10min.)
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Total Control (10 min.)
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Wings That Work (10 min.)
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Power Plus (10 min.)
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After The Flyer (10 min.)
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Science tutorial video: (1 x 23 min.) Four Forces (of Flight) - Newton's Laws; Law 1: Inertia - Newton's Laws; Law 2: f-ma - Newton's Laws; Law 3: Equal & Opposite - Drag & Friction - Pressure on a Wing - Work, Power and energy
- Hands-On Activities: (1 x 50 min.)
2. Se donner le mot - Cycle 3 (Français langue seconde de base et immersion) (Français langue maternelle pour tout le primaire)
Une série humoristique sur la langue française. Les humoristes Pierre Verville et Christopher Hall nous entraînent dans le quotidien rocambolesque du petit théâtre de quartier où tout peut arriver. Prétexte en fait pour nous faire découvrir le sens des expressions idiomatiques les plus colorées de notre vocabulaire et pour nous pousser à tester nos connaisances du français sur un site Internet fourmillant de jeux et de ressources. Se donner le mot stimule l’apprentissage tout en s’amusant. Une trousse de travail permet aux enseignants et aux apprenants d’exploiter le contenu du site et des capsules vidéo. Une excellente façon de faire des découvertes linguistiques dans un cadre dynamique, signifiant et créatif.
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40 capsules de 2 min. (expressions idiomatiques)
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45 jeux éducatifs et interactifs
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Site Web www.sedonnerlemot.tv
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Cette série est vendue au prix de 90.00$
B) Secondary Level and Adult Sector
1. Connect The Dots (1 x20 min. plus resource kit)
This series explores five important skills areas that experts agree are required by most employers: (1) self-management skills (punctuality, responsibility, appropriate risk-taking, integrity); (2) critical thinking skills; (3) communication skills; (4) computer literacy; and (5) basic literacy in reading, writing and mathematics. The realistic, cycle 1 high-school-based scenarios in this program will appeal to young students and will demonstrate how the work that students do today directly connects to the work they will eventually perform on the job. This series has been integrated into a Secondary cycle 1, year 1, Learning and Evaluation Situations (LES) entitled:2. What Type of Person Am I (1 x 20 min. plus resource kit)
This series provides educators with all the tools they need to begin the career exploration process with their students. The video presents the six personality types and identifies what each one means in simple terms that high-school students can relate to. The program also presents examples of various careers that appeal to these different types of personalities. This Teacher’s Resource book includes a series of quizzes that will help students begin to pin down where they fit into the personality type constellation. Once they discover what their prominent personality type is, they will be able to consider how their skills and preferences relate to future educational goals and career choices.Who Do I Want To Be?
It is available on the BIM website : www.bimonline.qc.ca
3. Zara’s Story ( 1 x 8 min. program)
The Abolish Child Trafficking And Abuse Worldwide And Actively Restore Empowerment (A.C.T.A.W.A.R.E.) group was started by students at Westmount High School in 2008 and has since grown in promoting chapters in schools across Québec. Based on the students' suggestions, Member of Parliament, Joy Smith has drafted legislation to put warning labels on « pleasure products » to warn consumers that these products perpetuate human trafficking. To produce chocolate in the Congo, children as young as 4 years old are used to gather beans and when they become too heavy for the delicate trees, they are resold! A production of Westmount High School Drama Class for A.C.T.A.W.A.R.E This program is available on loan for viewing free of charge, if you wish to purchase a copy, contact: Dina Vourdousis at dvourdousis@prof.emsb.qc.ca or contact Westmount High School at: 514-933-2701. Proceeds of sale will be used to support the A.C.T.A.W.A.R.E project.4. One Survivor Remembers (1 x 42 min. program plus resource kit)
They took all but her life. In the winter of 1945, on the day of her liberation from six years of Nazi rule, Gerda Weissmann clung to life at the end of a 350-mile death march. She weighed 68 pounds, her hair had turned white, and she had not had a bath in three years. She survived with courage, grace and dignity. This is her story. This program is available on loan for viewing free of charge. (Copying is forbidden.) If you wish to purchase a copy, contact: www.kleinfoundation.org5. A Death for Peace: Mahatma Ghandi & The Impossible Quest (1 x 52 min. program)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, father of Indian independence and champion of non-violence, died a violent death at the hands of Hindu extremists. This film relates his story as the struggles peacefully to rid India of the colonial British regime while at the same time make sure that all groups within the nation feel at home. He was not to succeed in this last goal. In 1947, amidst horrific ethnic violence, India was parted in two countries, India and Pakistan. Gandhi continued preaching non-violence and reconciliation, but the next year he was assassinated by member of Mahasabha, an extremist Hindu group. Throughout the film Gopal Godse, still defiantly unrepentant, praises his brother Nathuram, the man who killed Gandhi.6. Se donner le mot (français langue seconde - Secondaire de base et enrichi) (français langue maternelle pour tout le secondaire) Une série humoristique sur la langue française. Les humoristes Pierre Verville et Christopher Hall nous entraînent dans le quotidien rocambolesque du petit théâtre de quartier où tout peut arriver. Prétexte en fait pour nous faire découvrir le sens des expressions idiomatiques les plus colorées de notre vocabulaire et pour nous pousser à tester nos connaisances du français sur un site Internet fourmillant de jeux et de ressources. Se donner le mot stimule l’apprentissage tout en s’amusant. Une trousse de travail permet aux enseignants et aux apprenants d’exploiter le contenu du site et des capsules vidéo. Une excellente façon de faire des découvertes linguistiques dans un cadre dynamique, signifiant et créatif.
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40 capsules de 2 min. (expressions idiomatiques)
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45 jeux éducatifs et interactifs
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Site Web www.sedonnerlemot.tv
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Cette série est vendue au prix de 90.00$
7. Blood Coltan (1 x 52 min.) The West’s demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting for this black gold. This series exposes the web of powerful interests protecting this blood trade. Meet the powerful warlords who enslave local population and the European businessmen who continue importing Coltan, in defiance of the UN.
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This series is available for purchase only at a cost of $39.00 in Québec and $52.00 in the rest of Canada.
8. World Food Day 2008 (1 x 120 min. plus resource kit)
Choices for a Warm and Hungry Planet - The 25th annual world Food Day teleconference brought together a distinguished panel of experts chaired by PBS Leher News Hour journalist Ray Suarez. On October 16, 2008 the panel discussed causes and possible solutions to a crisis engulfing poor people around the world. The world’s “bottom billion” is now even more squeezed by higher food prices and the ever-increasing effects of climate change. The panel included:-
Dr. Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development
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Dr. Siwa Msangi, of the International Food Policy Research Institute
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Mr. Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State for Minnesota, and former president of the Institute for Agriculture Trade Policy
In the second half of this program the panel answers questions posed by teleconference viewers throughout North America, including Québec.
9. Inventing Flight (6 x 10min.)
Inventing Flight is a series that guides students through the science and history behind the Wright Brothers’ invention of powered flight. Students explore the challenges that faced Wilbur and Orville Wright as they set out to be the first to conquer the skies. The Wrights’ goal was to build a practical flying machine. To do this, they approached the technical challenges by utilizing the process of observing, testing and refining. Students engage in the same processes that the Wrights used, discovering answers to three critical problems of flight - lift, control and propulsion - just as the Wright Brothers did in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Inventing Flight is an excellent resource for supporting inquiry-based science. It is activity-based. Students learn key science concepts and processes by flying kites, testing gliders and experimenting with helicopter propellers... then analyzing their results.-
Visions Of Flight (10 min.)
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Wright Time, Wright Place (10min.)
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Total Control (10 min.)
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Wings That Work (10 min.)
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Power Plus (10 min.)
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After The Flyer (10 min.)
A) Science tutorial video: (1 x 23 min.)
Four Forces (of Flight) - Newton's Laws; Law 1: Inertia - Newton's Laws; Law 2: f-ma - Newton's Laws; Law 3: Equal & Opposite - Drag & Friction - Pressure on a Wing - Work, Power and energy
B) Hands-On Activities: (1 x 50 min.)
Sled Kite - Canard Glider - Camber and Efficiency - Angle of Attack - Building a Rubber Band-Powered Model Plane - Flying a Rubber Band-Powered Model Plane - Center of Gravity Experiment - Weight Experiment - Drag Experiment - Thrust - Efficient Propeller10. Marie of the Incarnation (1 x 42 min.) First superior of the Ursulines of Quebec, MARIE GUYARD was born at Tours, France, 28 Oct., 1599 and died at Quebec 30 April 1672. At the age of 17, she was married and devoted herself to the duties of a Christian wife. Left a widow after two years of married life, she entertained the idea of joining the Ursulines, but she had to wait until her child was 12 before she could realize her project. Sailing from Dieppe 3 April 1639, Marie de l’Incarnation after a perilous voyage of three months, arrived at Quebec. She learned the aborigine languages as soon as she arrived. On 29 May 1640 she inaugurated the new monastery. The rest of her life she passed teaching and catechizing the young Indians, and died after 40 years of labours, 33 of them spent in Canada. This VHS series is available on loan only and cannot be reproduced. If you wish to purchase it for $30.00, contact: Centre Marie de l’Incarnation, 10, rue Donnacona C.P. 760, H.V., Quebec, Qc G1R 3Y7 Tel : 418-694-0413 - ursmonstcmi@bellnet.ca
1. Football: Collective Intelligence ( 1 x 52 min. program)
Football (soccer in North America) is arguably the most popular sport in the world. This program follows the French football club Lorient as, inspired by a knowledgeable coach, the individual players come together to form an efficient and winning team.
Throughout the program the camera cuts away from the Lorient players to scientists who explain important contemporary concepts such as such as systems thinking, collective intelligence, and emergence. These concepts are illustrated by spectacular examples from nature such as the integrated movements of large schools of fish and flocks of birds – and by football players who rise above their individual efforts to function as a cohesive unit.
The benefits of learning to work with others in teams are so obvious as to be taken for granted. Football: Collective Intelligence invites viewers to go beyond paying lip service to this competency, both by providing spectacular examples of teamwork from animal and human life and by causing us to reflect on our own understanding of this important social skill.
The English version of Football: Collective Intelligence includes an English-language narrative track and subtitles.
2. Unsafe to Teach (1 x 30 min. plus resource kit)
This documentary, through interviews with current and former teachers as well as by presenting statistical evidence, reveals a serious problem in our schools: violence against teachers by students and parents. In fact, violence against teachers is a growing if still too often overlooked issue. It must be confronted if we are to restore our classrooms to the learning environments that both students and teachers deserve. This program, along with the Société GRICS resource kit, can help teachers realize that they are not unique with their problems, and that they can have recourse to legal and other forms of assistance
3. Videos to Support Parent and Community Involvement in Education (3 x 15-25 min.)
These video programs were produced by the Institute for Responsive Education (IRE), a Boston-area foundation whose mission was to promote the benefits of greater community and parental involvement in children’s education. IRE resources, including the videos in this series, provide administrators, teachers, parents, students, and community members with the knowledge they need to develop, implement, and sustain partnership initiatives that support educational improvement.D) Technical and Vocational Training
1. Principes pour le déplacement sécuritaire des bénéficiaires
Entrez dans la réalité de madame Croze, de monsieur Lallier et de monsieur Couture. Leur état de santé ainsi que le contexte dans lequel ils évoluent sont très différents. À vous de déterminer le niveau d’assistance nécessaire afin de les aider dans leurs déplacements:
- Transfert de la civière au lit
- Lever du fauteuil
- Asseoir au lit Asseoir à la toilette
- Utiliser le lève-personne
- Rehausser au fauteuil
À vous d’analyser si les soignants respectent bien les PDSB dans leurs manœuvres. Bonnes études de cas! Visitez le site www.pdsb.info pour en savoir plus. Guide du formateur et cahier de l’élève disponibles en ligne.
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