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Respecting Your World

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Child sitting on the ground. Caption: then usually you can make a difference.

Students are encouraged not only to respect other people, but also their surroundings. Widens viewers' perspectives from their own homes to schools to towns to the planet. Rhymes, stories, and real-life experience help emphasize how the earth is interconnected.

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Runtime: 24 minutes 49 seconds

Topic: Science, Social Science
Subtopic: Conservation, Values and Ethics
Grade/Interest Level: 4 - 8
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Release Year: 1998
Producer/Distributor: Human Relations Media
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Still image from: 12th Hour

Still image from: 2050: A World Without Meat

Spraying ice removing solution on a sheet. Caption: Just spray on and the ice that forms slips away.

Aerial view of farmlands in patchwork green and brown with a small river winding through it. Caption: this land that has nourished them for centuries.

A political map of U S. Caption: A national grassroots movement to legalize democracy.

A pod of dolphins swims at the surface of an ocean. Caption: They are being very cooperative.

A girl working in a swamp. Caption: I love doing conservation projects.

Close up on flames burning a piece of bark. In the background, rows of trees have been flattened and burnt to the ground. Text reads, “A World Without Forests.”

Water rushes through rocks in the Fridley creek. Caption: when it's severely icing, it's a hostile environment.

Four photos against a background that shows rows of agriculture growing on a farm. The first portrays farm workers sorting the produce. The second shows potatoes moving along a conveyor belt. The third shows farm equipment moving crops into storage containers. The fourth shows a combine moving through a field.

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