Audio Visual Materials

Online Catalogue

• BKC 333.7 Captain Conservation : all about water [bookcassette]. Describes water cycle, how man has polluted water, recycling.
• VID 333.7 Nguyamyam. (6 min.) Animated characters live in a fictitious planet full of resources. This planet is eaten by its inhabitants because they do not take care of their resources. Appropiate for all ages.
• DVD 333.72 Environmental health (23 min.) . Teaches that that one important way to help is to simply remember the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. Students learn that not all trash is created equal as we visit a recycling plant. Want to know what you can do to help eliminate waste and pollution? Provides tips for children on how to keep the environment healthy.
• DVD 363.72 The magic school bus holiday special. Holiday special -- All dried up -- In the rainforest. [episode 1] Dolly Parton. Three adventures. [1st] Ms. Frizzle's class learns the importance of recycling (30 min). [2nd] Phoebe's crusade to save the animals & plants of the desert. [3rd] Explore the life of a cocoa bean tree in the rainforest.
• DVD 363.7 Pollution. Provides a simple scientific explanation of air, water, and noise pollution. Children will learn how pollution is created, the environmental effects of pollution and current methods employed to reduce, control and recycle waste.
• VID 333.7 All about natural resources (23 min.). Children will learn about these resources and more, discovering along the way what makes some natural resources renewable and others nonrenewable. See how wind turbines provide an alternative to fossil fuels as a means of providing energy, while a fun, hands-on demonstration shows children how they can build their own simple water treatment system.
• VID 363.728 Trash and the environment (13 min.). Students learn about the environment and the part each of us play in perserving it. This program offers some valid realistic environmentally healthy choices that wouldhelp to limit the amount of waste and pollution we create every day.
• VID 531 All about the conservation of energy (23 min.) . Teaches kids that by carpooling with friends, riding their bikes, turning off lights when they leave a room and recycling, they are helping to reduce energy consumption. Young viewers will learn that renewable resources like the sun, wind and moving water are all promising energy resources, although each has drawbacks. Kids will also discover that garbage, a kind of biomass, can be an energy resource, too! Included is a fun activity that encourages conservation by allowing kids to try their hand at composting.
• VID 628.4 Garbage Day! Ride along with garbage man Gus as he leads a field trip from the depot to landfills and recycling centers.
• DVD 628.44 Day in the life of a garbage truck! A behind-the-scenes look at garbage trucks, recycling and the environment.
• VID 670 How do they do that? Shows how things work and where they come from, looking at roads, metal, paper, recycling, and glass.

  CHARTS :

• CHT 363.7 Sea pollution. The water cycle, oil pollution, oil slicks, sewage, food chain, radioactive waste, all factors that affect the conservation of our seas.
  CHT 363.7 Land pollution. Decomposition process, household rubbish, recycling, radioactive waste, toxic waste, insecticides, food chain.
  CHT 363.7 The Vandalized environment. Dramatic photos depicting different ways man pollutes the world: handling garbage, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, water pollution, radioactive contamination, nuclear plants, use of polluting sources of energy, noise pollution, pesticides.
  CHT 363.72 Garbage. 1. Too much of it -- 2. A throwaway society -- 4. Packaging creates waste -- 5. Some is toxic -- 6. In the ocean -- 7. Exporting our wastes. Shows statistics about illegal dumping of garbage in Florida, garbage littering many roads and highways, disposable plastic, metal and glass, sea turtles entangled in a fishing net.
  CHT 628.1 Water: the resource that gets used & used & used. Describes how water has different kinds of uses as it flows as a river, or stream. In the back side of the chart a series of graphics show interesting facts about water usage (how water was used during 1985, earth's total water supply, instream use, offstream use).
  CHT 628.3 How do we treat our wastewater?. Drawings of a neighborhood showing how the wastewater is treated, the septic tank, sedimentation tanks, sludge for fertilization, etc.