Infobase
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (39 sec)) : sound.
Description
YOU FOUND US! Since we aren't able to join in on the fun and collaboration that TLA brings in person this year, we created this scavenger hunt to help lead you through Infobase products as a fun way to learn about the amazing educational resources Infobase provides.
2) Digital Food
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (47 min., 27 sec.)) : color and sound.
Description
Modern food production is largely dependent on fossil fuels. Now that we are beginning to reach the end of them, the main question remains: How will we feed a global population of 9 billion people in 2050? In the Netherlands, Belgium and Silicon Valley, numerous startups have sprung up that use smart technology, big data and new distribution systems to find solutions. This program explores tomorrow's food, which not only needs to be sustainable, tasty...
Publication Date
[2007]
Description
Visiting the site of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Stefan Gates finds people living on toxic land. His journey takes him right up to the crumbling sarcophagus itself, and when a woman prepares a meal from produce grown in her garden,Gates is faced with a tricky dilemma.
Series
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color. + instructional materials (online)
Description
This lecture launcher directed by Shola Lynch explores today's income inequality and features economists from across the political spectrum discussing root causes of the increasing income gap, and primate experiments on understandings of fairness. Part of WE THE ECONOMY, a series of short films developed by renowned filmmakers and a panel of top economic experts.
Publication Date
[1975]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr. 3 min., 28 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Maupassant's story is of a young servant girl seduced, made pregnant, and abandoned by her master, who dies because she cannot live without him. This dramatized version focuses on the relationships between people and the landscapes amid which they live, a story reflective both of Maupassant's view of life and of the style in which he described it.
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (55 min., 3 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
In this film, learn about Bernardo de Galvez, a Spanish general who played a crucial role in the American Revolutionary War, assisting the American colonies in gaining independence from the English. Galvez's role in organizing attacks and supplying necessities to the American troops provided assistance that is remembered today. Galvez remains an integral part of Spanish American history and has been granted honorary American citizenship by Congress....
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (47 min. 5 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Type II diabetes rates rose in the U.K. Approximately 7,000 people per year have amputations as a result of the diet-related disease and 20,000 children suffer preventable tooth decay-burdening the National Health Service. In this documentary, Jamie Oliver reveals how much added sugar is in healthy-looking food and explores how the food and beverage industry markets to children in supermarket product placement and TV ads. He visits Mexico to witness...
Publication Date
[1975]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, black and white.
Description
Beckett, expatriate Irishman resident in Paris, was a truly bilingual author who wrote both in French and in English, translating most of the works he wrote in English into French, and vice versa. Tous ceux qui tombent (All that Fall)-written in English and translated by Robert Pinget-is a barely human and absurdist dialogue between a semi-functional old woman and her blind husband. As always with Beckett, the onus is on the director to stage a dramatic...
Series
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (2 min., 35 sec)) : sound.
Description
Four toddlers are walking on contact paper, sticky side up, taped to the floor. Most often such an activity is called "sensorial play" and justified with phrases such as "they are exploring their sense of touch." Such phrases, perhaps derived from Montessori's phrase of "educating the senses," imply that the children are learning what objects are smooth, what objects are rough, what objects are sticky, what objects are not. The emphasis is placed...
10) Taking Turns
Series
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (3 min., 43 sec)) : sound.
Description
This video clip shows a group of two-year-olds working to voluntarily control their behavior in order to engage in turn-taking with peers. The children know that taking turns involves a period of waiting and a period of activity. One child asserts the "five-minute" rule as a means to negotiate turns swinging. While the children understand that time can be measured, they have trouble determining the actual time span of five minutes. The teacher offers...
Publication Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (4 min., 41 sec)) : sound.
Description
In this video clip, four year olds Evan (in yellow) and Alex (in red) rearrange bottomless wooden boxes into play props that have qualitatively different functions: a train to sit in, a tunnel to crawl through, a bridge to walk over, an enclosure to hide toy animals inside, and a chute to toss a ball into. When a child is able to change the function of an object by changing his perspective to that object, he learns an important lesson. When I want...
12) Sick Baby
Publication Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (5 min., 35 sec)) : sound.
Description
This video clip shows four year olds Emma, Brenna, and Julia caring for a baby with a 'boo-boo'. Brenna animates the Mom (doll) who feeds the baby. Julia talks on the telephone. As the children explore their conceptions about friendship, illness, treatment, doctors, police officers, mommies, and telephone conversations, we learn how dramatic play supports children's social and emotional development.
Publication Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (3 min., 7 sec)) : sound.
Description
In this video clip, five year olds Golden and Emma are playing a game of checkers. Golden is teaching Emma how to play. Notice how patient and flexible he is as he tries to explain the rules and she doesn't quite follow. Golden seems to demonstrate an understanding that Emma is making sense of the game in her own way. Notice the different ways he scaffolds her learning.
14) Infant Climb
Description
This video clip shows two infants crawling and climbing in their classroom, illustrating how infants explore their world with their whole bodies.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 0 sec)) : sound.
Description
In this video clip, four-year-old Dusk and his friends are interested in building a track for their racecars. As a provocation, some of the chairs are lined up in the classroom. The children see this line of chairs as a good location for their track. Dusk decides to extend the line of chairs and recruits his friends to help. Listen as he repeats the words "more, more, more!" Watch how Marty responds and how the boys get to work, spurred on by Dusk's...
17) Stacking Tires
Description
This video clip follows a five-year-old as she exhibits Executive Function by devising and executing a plan to achieve her goal - building stacks made of heavy automobile tires.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (5 min., 6 sec)) : sound.
Description
This video clip shows four five-year-old children and a teacher as they work to build a tower using large sections of tree trunk. As the children arrange the wood to create a platform for their structure they encounter a problem that they attempt to solve.
19) Empathy
Publication Date
[2018]
Description
This video explores how empathy is a skill that can be cultivated, and practical tips on how to design or adapt action-driven learning experience that cultivate empathy.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (2 min., 27 sec)) : sound.
Description
In this video clip, three-year-olds Henry and Caleb watch how feathers and fabric behave differently in two wind tubes made from fans and Plexiglass, highlighting variables that present opportunities for discovery. The design of the space allows several children to play at the same time and to enter the play at their own level, encouraging discovery.



