Audio Visual Materials

OPAC - Online Catalogue

Call Number, Title

• BKC 534 Listen-- what do you hear?. Discusses the phenomenon of sound, how it varies in volume and pitch, how it travels, and how it is perceived by the ear.

• DVD 612 This is you: The senses.

• BKC 612 Your brain. The various actions that involve using the brain, the muscles controlled by the brain, the five senses and how they gather information from the surrounding world.

• BKC 612.8 The senses. Teaches specific concepts; helps improve reading skills, increase reading and listening comprehension, and build vocabulary. Function and importance of various senses. Ways animals uses senses to hunt for food and to avoid danger.

• CHT 305.231 Crecemos. We grow-up -- The senses

• CHT 612.8 The Five senses. Clear pictures depict the five senses and the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain.

• VID 372 Sounds. Shows the alphabet in an enticing display to teach and occupy young children.

• VID 612 Human body for children. All about bones & muscles -- All about blood & the heart -- All about Health & hygiene -- All about the brain -- All about the human life cycle -- All about the senses. Human body for childen take kids on a wonderful journey to explore and explains the basics of how our bodies work. Topics covered include cells, blood and the heart, bones and muscles, the brain, the senses and much more. These programs will also provide kids with basic information about good health, hygiene, nutrition and exercise.

• VID 612.8 Barney's sense-sational day. Barney & friends. Barney and friends present fun-filled activities that teach about the five senses.

• VID 612.8 In touch with the world. An exploration of how the sensations we experience through our skin help us to learn about the world and adapt to it. Through our skin, we experience touch, pressure, hot, cold & pain.

• VID 612.8 Learning to see. Explores the sense of sight. Our eyes take in a great deal of information, but it is our brain that determines what we see.

• VID 612.8 A matter of taste. Tells how taste plays a major role in one's life & is enhanced by the other senses. "...We eat to live & our sense of taste helps us enjoy what we eat...a sense of taste is a chemical sense reponding to the foods we eat." The four basic tastes are sweet, bitter, sour & salty.

• VID 612.8 You and your five senses. The program combines animation and live action as Jiminy Cricket guides Pinocchio (a real boy) through an explanation of how the senses work to help keep us safe in our surroundings. Pinocchio comes tounderstand that our senses work together and separately with some help from Captain Nonsense. He also learns how important it is to protect our senses.

Some Fiction titles :

• BKC E The cat who wore a pot on her head. A cat named Bendemolena lives in a noisy place. To keep out the noise, she wears a pot on her head but has trouble hearing when someone is speaking to her.

• BKC E Katie and the night noises. At bedtime, Katie has trouble going to sleep when all the sounds in the house stir her imagination to hear sound of the jungle.

• BKC E Who's making that sound? After a playful day in the forest, Pocahontas, Meeko, Percy, and Flit want to take a nice, long nap-if only their forest friends would let them!

• BKC 394.2 Old devil Wind. On a dark and stormy night one object after another joins in making eerie noises in the old house.
  
• BKC E Bears in the night.
  
• BKC E Mr. Brown can moo! Can you?. Mr. Brown is an expert at imitating all sorts of noises.

• VID 812 Angus and the ducks. A curious Scotch terrier, Angus, decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hedge and meets some ducks...

• DVD 812 Helen Keller. Animated depiction of the life of Helen Keller, a remarkable woman who overcame deafness and blindness to lead a full life and speak for the handicapped.

• VID 812 King Midas and the golden touch. A video version of the classic tale of ancient Greece in which the King discovers that some things are more precious than gold.
  
• FSC E Noisy Nora. Uses the text and illustrations of the book of the same title by Rosemary Wells to tell a story about a girl's attempts at attracting her parents' attention by making noise and by leaving home. Includes sung and read versions of the author's verse. For primary grades.
  
• FSC E Ear book.. Presents a series of stories about all kinds of ears and the sounds they hear in order to develop reading.

• DVD 812 The trumpet of the swan. A mute Trumpeter swan is given the gift of a trumpet and finds his voice with the help of a young boy.