Skills for Living

Videos and PowerPoint® CDs

 

 

7 WAYS TO BLOCK A CYBERBULLY
It is estimated that 40 percent of teens have been targeted by an e-bully. This video outlines and explains in detail seven strategies for dealing with a digital bully. It also includes seven ways parents and educators can work to stop cyber bullying. (2008 – 20 min.)
No. 9467 DVD............$79.95

Alcohol Use and Abuse
Watch as Dr. Kitty Harris-Wilkes, Director for the Texas Tech Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, along with former users and addicts discuss the use, abuse, and addiction to alcohol. This video includes an overview of alcohol abuse; effects on the individual, family, and friends; a short, self-assessment; and resources of where to find additional help. (2007 - 25 min.)
No. 8001 DVD.....$125.00

The Art of Listening
We spend more time listening than any activity except breathing, yet we listen at only a fraction of our potential. This video uses home and workplace situations to teach the seven "Laws of Good Listening" and practical techniques to become a better listener. Each "law" is a key toward improved listening and communication. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2007 - 27 min.)
No. 5893 DVD......$99.00

Basic Apparel (PowerPoint CD)
Shows clothing construction techniques; selection, care and maintenance practices of clothing fabrics and finishes; weaving techniques of fibers and yarns; factors influencing apparel selection; and management of the apparel budget. (2003 – 59 slides)
No. P2031.............$74.00

BODY LANGUAGE II: Reading People
Is it possible to read people’s thoughts and feelings just by looking at them? This program provides valuable information about interpreting body language by presenting fun, easy to understand and real life examples. If your students apply this information and do some intelligent people watching, they’ll see a whole new world of communication they may never have noticed. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2008 – 24 min.)
No. 5219 DVD.......$99.00

BUYING AND SELLING: HOW TRADING SHAPES OUR WORLD
When you buy a T-shirt, a car, or a cup of coffee, you send messages to a complex web of people all over the world. The marketplace of buying and selling is far more than a convenient way to get the stuff we crave - it shapes personal freedom and drives material progress. Learn the answers to who’s behind the remarkable system that supplies shirts, as well as food, shelter, and most other desires of daily life, along with what drives countless strangers to serve your needs and wants. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2008 – 24 min.)
No. 5317 DVD..........$99.00

Career Self-Assessment: Where Do You Fit?
Helps viewers match their talents and skills to career opportunities through identifying basic career clusters. Learning Seed video includes a study guide.  (2001-26 min.)
No. 5401 DVD......$99.00

Child Development Basics: Stages of Development
Teens tour a child care center and observe infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, and kindergartners and their physical, intellectual, and social growth. Gives examples also of solitary, parallel, cooperative, and pretend play. Includes video worksheets.  (2005 -15 min.)
No. 9336 DVD.......$49.95

Clothing Care
Watch step-by-step instructions on sorting, washing and drying clothes. Learn basic techniques for stain removal, and see how to interpret care labels on garments. See how detergents clean by "making water wetter" and how a dry cleaner is not really dry at all! (2007- 25 min.)
No. 5169 DVD......$99.00
Communication in a Wired World: Be Smart,Be Safe
Online and mobile technologies profoundly influence how we read and write, learn and work. Explore skills for communicating smartly across many digital technologies; how multitasking affects learning and work; and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy, reputation, and personal information. (2009 – 20 min.)**
No. 5324 DVD ...........$99.00

Consumer Rights & Responsibilities (PowerPoint CD)
Discusses our rights as consumers. Students will be able to determine the influence consumers have on everyday purchases. (2004 – 25 slides)
No. P2159...............$69.00

Eat Right! Food Pyramid
The newest version of the food pyramid emphasizes the importance of physical activity and eating nutrient dense foods. See how to include good fats, lower the added sugar, include low or no fat dairy products, and add whole grains. Learn how to read labels to get the desired nutrients. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2006 - 24 min.)
No. 5290DVD........$99.00

Eating Disorders
Watch as professional, Dr. Kitty Harris-Wilkes, Director for the Texas Tech Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, along with survivors of eating disorders talk about he issues and consequences associated with the disease. This video includes an overview of the disease; effects on the individual, family, and friends; a short, self-assessment; and where to find additional help. (2007 - 25 min.)
No. 8002 DVD....$125.00

Etiquette Hotline: Table Manners
Eavesdrop on a telephone hotline as distressed callers query the experts on proper table manners. Topics include napkins, table settings, continental and American style, left handed eating, posture, talking with a full mouth, leaving the table, dress code, splitting portions, passing food, taking food home, removing unwanted food, dropped silverware, grooming, tips, and other important items. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2004 - 23 min.)
No. 5091DVD .......$99.00

Family and Consumer Sciences: Education for Life (PowerPoint CD)
Eye-catching PowerPoint promotes the value of Family and Consumer Sciences. Excellent for presentations to administrators, school board, community groups, legislators, or any stakeholders who are making decisions about your program. Emphasizes that FCS prepares students for family life and helps them ap­ply knowledge obtained in other classes to improve the quality of their lives.  (2005 - 31 slides)
No. P9150...............$49.95

Family Life Cycle (PowerPoint CD)
Presents the changing family structure, roles, responsibilities, and goals at each stage of the family life cycle. Encourages students to analyze their family’s stage and identify how culture, demographics, and economics affect each phase. (2003 – 21 slides)
No. P2004.................$64.00
Fast Food Nutrition
Fast food often gets a bad rap. High amounts of saturated fat, sugar, sodium, and calories, and a lack of fruits and vegetables make most fast food choices not the best in terms of nutrition. Join two teen fast food servers as they explore the world of fast food with fun and humor as they help viewers learn how to make the healthiest choices when eating on the go at fast food restaurants. (2009 – 17 min.)
No. 9499 DVD ...........$79.95

Fats: Healthy or Harmful (PowerPoint CD)
Help students actually see the differences between healthy and unhealthy fats and how to recognize fat in everyday foods. Relevant and easy-to-understand charts, activities, visual clues and online resources give students take-home tools to help them make healthier eating choices. Help students beat the obesity epidemic and make healthy choices for life. Presenter notes included. (2007 – 40 slides)
No. P9165..............$49.95

Flattering Fashions
Understand how the six classic principles of design apply to clothes and develop a personal style that highlights your best features. Learn how the body’s shape or silhouette controls what others see, how to use the power of lines to emphasize height, conceal weight, and create illusions. See how to use color to attract attention or minimize size and how to create pleasing proportions to avoid the clumsy "half and half" look. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2007 - 22 min.)
No. 5130 DVD ......$99.00

FOOD ADDITIVES
Do you know what maltodextrin is? No, it’s not the winning word from the national spelling bee. It’s probably in your corn flakes. Should you eat something that you can’t pronounce? From the history behind preserving foods to new concepts in enriching foods, this program presents examples of the many additives that are used to flavor, color, and preserve so much of what we eat. Food Additives takes a simple, factual look at the everyday trade – offs we make when we choose our food. (2008 – 24 min.)**
No. 5206 DVD ...........$99.00

Food Safety
Experts estimate food borne illness accounts for over 300,000 hospital admissions yearly. Learn how to handle food safely and prevent illness and how to keep dangerous bacteria from growing into a health hazard. Presentation emphasizes the "why" of food handling instead of a series of rules. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2007 - 22 min.)
No. 5180 DVD........$99.00

Go Green Around Your Home
Learn how you can help to sustain the world's resources by making a few changes at home. Watch as a group of teenagers explain ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle products to create a healthier lifestyle and environment. (2008 - 20 min.)
No. 9466 DVD........$79.95

How Much Should I Eat?
Help students develop portion awareness so they can replace "super size it" with "intelli-size-it." Answer questions such as: What is a reasonable portion for common foods? How does psychology influence how much you eat? How do food labels mislead about calories? Learn how to make educated guess about serving sizes. Learning Seed teacher guide included.  (2007 - 22min.)
No. 5310 DVD .......$99.00

Improving Your Self-Esteem
Explore ways to make realistic, effective improvements in your self-esteem. Take a self-assessment inventory and investigate sources of self-esteem. Listen as students and professionals share insight into the power of positive self-esteem and offer healthy ways to optimize self-worth. (2007 - 20 min.)
No. 2933DVD.......$95.00

It's Not What You Say: Mastering Basic Communication
If talking is so easy, why do misunderstandings and arguments seem to happen so often? In this program, Bill Cakmis will help your students discover the remarkable difference that word choice can make, find out what nonverbal communication is all about, understand the power of emotional tone, and learn the art of listening. (2003 – 26 min.)
No. 2011 DVD* .......$98.00

Keys to Quality Infant and Toddler Care
Goes inside a child care center and day care home to show first-hand what makes quality care. Views day care tailored to the individuals infant, toddler, and two-year-old, pointing out essential components. Also highlights elements of programming and the environment, including health and safety. (2002 - 29 min.)
No. 7131 DVD......$99.00

Kids and Sports: From Infant to Athlete
Viewers will see children from toddlers through puberty illustrate just how fun or frustrating playin gsports can be. Watch as physical, social and emotional development follow a sequence that adults can't speed up. See how skills in sports progress from birth through puberty and marvel at the intellectual side of sports - from score keeping to game strategizing. This program guides viewers through the dangers of the over scheduled, over-pressured, over-trained child. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2008- 25 min.)
No. 5315 DVD...$99.00

Kitchen Fundamentals: Common Tools & Terms
Observe basic food preparation techniques demonstrated by a professional chef. Topics include chopping, blending, beating, whipping, baking, measuring, and hand washing. (2005 - 40 min.)
No. 9031 DVD......$49.95

Kitchen Safety Smart
Teens follow a comedian around the kitchen as he narrowly averts impending disasters while preparing them breakfast. Short vignettes on knife safety, burns, broken glass, and ways to prevent and respond to kitchen safety issues are presented. The students demonstrate equipment usage and personal safety. Appropriate for beginning students. (2005 – 8 min.)
No. 9390 DVD ...........$49.95

Leadership Styles (PowerPoint CD)
Each person has a leadership style; however, a specific situation merits its own style. This presentation will help students understand how to choose and utilize different styles of leadership, such as autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. (2003 – 15 slides)
No. P2052.............$49.00

Managing Multiple Roles
Based on Effective Management of Multiple Roles: Family and Work, this videotape addresses effective management of a variety of roles, such as caregiver, employee, spouse, parent, and/or student. The importance of goal setting, values, standards, and differentiating between wants and needs is stressed. Includes a study guide and a supplement.  (2000 - 21 min.)
No. 2593..............$95.00
Math in the Kitchen: Do You Measure Up?
Join Matt the Mathematical Cook, a fun and lively host who will multiply, divide, measure and whip up a few recipes in the process in Math in the Kitchen: Do You Measure Up? Learn how to read a recipe, properly measure ingredients and identify common equivalents, convert recipes for smaller and larger yields, and use cost comparisons to determine the best buy. (2009 – 28 min.)
No. 9495 DVD ...........$49.95

My Family is Changing
No one likes change, especially when it comes to family life, but change is sometimes inevitable. Listen as teens talk about real life situations and how they learned to deal with them. Mom and dad divorcing is not the end of family life, it just makes something new to deal with. (2006 - 23 min.)
No. 8024 DVD....$125.00

MyPyramid-Pass It On
Explains the symbolism of the new personalized food guidance system. Uses teens to teach the "Steps to a Healthier You" and shows them how to eat for energy, control their calories, and add physical activity to their daily routine. Students go to the Web site where they find their personal eating plans for their age, gender, size, and activity level. (2005 - 15 min.)
No. 9386 DVD ......$49.95

The Netiquette Edge
Discover the importance of using good manners when using cell phones, the Internet, iPods, email and other gadgets. Learn the S.T.E.P.S. of manners related to technology and get the netiquette edge. (2007 - 21 min.)
No. 9426DVD.......$79.95

Nutrition Basics: Why Food Matters
Explains why we need to choose carefully from the tons of food we eat to obtain the four basics of life: water, energy, protein, and a handful of vitamins and minerals. Use this to correct many commonly held misconceptions about why we eat. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2006 - 19 min.)
No. 5288 DVD.....$99.00

Obesity in a Bottle
Take a look at the growing national obesity problem and how beverages are a significant factor. Discover how the beverage choices we make can greatly affect our health – for better or for worse. The video examines the effect of beverages on weight gain. Also look at beverage size, the dangers of regular and diet sodas, sports and energy drinks, the nutritional breakdown of popular beverages, and the benefits of drinking water. This up-to-date video will appeal to teens and encourage smart beverage choices. (2006 - 21 min.)
No. 9429 DVD........$79.95

Performancing Enhancing Drugs
Learn the common forms of performance enhancing drugs, negative consequences of using these drugs, and drug testing procedures. Specific objectives addressed in the program include and overview of drugs in sport; an explorations of why performance-enhancing drugs are used and what the side-effects of sue are; an explanation of the why and how of drug testing; a short self-assessment; and where to find additional help. (2007 - 20 min.)
No. 8004 DVD.....$125.00

The Power of Family
Traditional, single parent, blended or extended - there are many ways we define a family. Our families help make us the people that we are today. Learn the different types of families and the developmental roles they play; including physical, emotional, intellectual, social and moral development. Teaching materials included. (2008 – 23 min.)
No. 9474 DVD ...........$79.95

Real Food: The Cost of Convenience
What do you by most in a supermarket? Hint: It's not food. Most of your dollars are spent for slicing, dicing, portioning, and packaging. In short, you pay for convenience. Real Food illustrates how much we pay - in dollars and nutrition - when we buy processed foods. Using compelling and memorable examples, students will learn how buying local products, fresh ingredients, and raw foods will impact their health as well as their wallets. Learning Seed teacher guide included. (2008 - 24 min.)
No. 5318 DVD....$99.00

Recognizing Child Abuse
This program spells out the Four Rs of child abuse—the harsh Reality of its presence in our society, the Results it leads to, the many ways to Recognize it, and the proper channels for Reporting it. Each of these concepts is explained through eye-opening dramatizations and supported by interviews with education and child welfare experts. A viewable/printable presenter’s guide is available online at <meridian.films.com>. (2007 - 25 min.)
No. F674 DVD ...........$89.95

Snack Smarts
Features three students as they meet people in the grocery store, who will teach them how to read nutrition labels, weigh options to choose foods that will make them look and feel good, and find new foods they will eat. Students lo­cate snack foods that will satisfy their salty, crunchy, creamy, and sweet cravings. (2006 - 18 min.)
No. 9218 DVD......$79.95

Taking Care of Baby: Nurturing Care
Learn how to keep safety in mind and take ad­vantage of the opportunity to nurture a new life. Observe calming techniques, ideas for playtime, and important safety guidelines. (2005 - 22 min.)
No. 9414 DVD......$99.95

Teen Nutrition: What's the Big Debate
There's no debate that healthy eating is good for you, but too often teens don't make smart choices when it comes to food and activity. Watch as two high school classmates prepare for a debate on healthy eating, a nutritionist gives advice, and student interviews give a "real life" view of eating habits. Students will learn the
F-A-T-S method of eating and activity, the P-L-A-N method of changing bad eating/activity habits, why the Food Pyramid matters, how to use a hunger scale, and how reading food labels can help you make good choices. (2007 - 20 min.)
No. 9457 DVD....$79.95

Teen Safety: Dating and Relationships
Use this presentation to provide students with the skils and knowledge they will need to stay safe with friends, dates, strangers, and others. This program uses realistic scenarios an dinterviws to present information on date rape drugs, strategies to prevent date rape, the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship, and resources for victims of abuse. (2008 - 17 min.)
No. 9462 DVD......$79.95

Teens and Tanning : Sun Safety Update
Hear from dermatologist Carolyn Jacob as she explains the dangers of overexposure to tanning beds and the sun. Learn how to be sun safe and have fun at the same time by applying the right sunscreen, seeking shade, and wearing sunglasses and hats. (2005 - 16 min.)
No. 9384 DVD.....$49.95

Working Smart
Okay, so you've got the job so now what? A good employee knows that succeeding in the workplace involves more than just learning a particular aspect of the job, it also includes knowing what to do and who to ask when you don't know. Learn how to succeed and how to get ahead by working smart. (2005 - 15 min.)
No. 8020 DVD....$125.00

Workplace Ethics
Ethics describes how you act not onlu in public but also when no one is looking. An ethical employee is a valuable employee and someone who will be respected by their peers and employers. Learn how you can be a responsible and ethical employee. Come along and see what it takes to improve your on the job ethics. (2004 - 15 min.)
No. 8010 DVD.....$125.00