Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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Title: FISH OUT OF WATER Content: The grunion comes out of the water to lay its eggs on shore. The eggs are gathered and the development of the grunion is studied in the laboratory. Grade Levels: Elementary, Junior High. Senior High and College. Type of Film: Animated, features photomicrography and time-lapse photography. Running Time: II minutes. Price: Color, $90.00; black and white, S45.00. Title: HOW MANY STARS Content: A clearly explained trip into space to study our .solar system, our galaxy the Milky Way, and other galaxies. Junior High, Senior High and College. Telescopic photography, with animation. Grade Levels: Type of Film: Running Time: 1 1 minutes. Price: Color. .$90.00; black and white. $45.00. Title: Content: Grade Levels: Type of Film: Running Time: Price: WORLD OF LITTLE THINGS An introduction to a whole new world of enormous littleness. A world which possesses a vast variety of plants and animals ... a complex world found wherever water and proper temperature are found. Junior High. Senior High and College. Features time-lapse photography and photomicrography. 15 minutes. Color. S120.00; black and white, S60.00. Title: THE ELECTRIC EEL Content: Grade Levels: Running Time: The electrical activity of the eel is considered in detail. This activity illustrates such biological concepts as defensive mechanisms, food-getting equipment in animals, and the relationship of the physical and the biological sciences. Upper Elementary, Junior High, Senior High and College. 12 minutes. Price: Color, $90.00; black and white, $45.00. INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE SHEETS Each MIS science film is supplemented with a teacher's guide sheet to aid in preparing class sessions and discussion. Gives suggested procedures for preliminary class discussion and contains questions to stimulate pupil participation following the showing of the film. Also contains significant additions to the stuents' scientific vocabulary and a bibliography for further study. Titla: Content: Grade Levels; Running Time: SLOW AS IN SLOTH The unu.sual structure and ecology of this unique animal are presented as related factors in its survival. This points to the important relationship between the structure of any animal and its environment. Upper Elementary, Junior High. Senior High and Adult. 21 Minutes. Color. $155.00. Title: PLANT LIFE AT WORK Content: Plants exhibit the life functions that characterize all living things. The work accomplished by growing plants is illustrated in detail. Energy is u.sed for movement, growth, the manufacture of food, and even reproduction. Grade Levels: Type of Film: Running Time: Upper Elementary. High. Junior High and Senior Time-lapse photography, photomicrography. 10 minutes. Color. $90.00. Title: CARNIVOROUS PLANTS Content: The unusual structure and behavior of the following plants are demonstrated; Venus' Flytrap, the Trumpet plant, the Cobra plant, the Common Pitcher plant, the Sundew plant and the Utricularia. Junior High. Senior High and College. Photomicrography. Grade Levels: Type of Film: Running Time: Price: 10 minutes. Color. S90.00. Title: SOUNDS IN THE SEA Content: Sounds discovered by the use of the hydrophone during World War U led to extensive research in sounds l>oneath the sea. Shows how many ti.shes, crustaceans and mammals can be identified by the sounds they produce Grode Levels: Running Time: Elementary. College. Junior High. Senior High and 14 minutes. Price: Color. $120.00.