LibGuides: Health/Physical Education: Media Resources

Films on Demand

Films on Demand Master Academic Collection
The Master Academic Collection of streaming videos by Films on Demand provides online access to over 7,500 full length videos and 90,000 video clips. It covers the areas of Business & Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences, Science & Mathematics and Health & Medicine, as well as Archival Films & Newsreels. Please note that High-speed Internet access is required with a minimum of 380 kbps DSL, or 500 kbps Cable Modem connectivity.

Streaming Videos

American Teacher
This film shows us the experiences of four young teachers as they recognize the importance of what they do, and how much they love what they do, but ask: can I afford to continue to teach?
Appropriate Actions: A Teacher's Guide to Sexual Harassment
In this timely program, educators and expert consultants address the volatile topic of sexual harassment among students. Together they consider definitions, examples, impact, and legal accountability.
Balancing Learning Standards with Diverse Learning Needs
If diversity and special needs are prominent factors in a learning environment, teachers may have to juggle mandated standards with students’ personal challenges. This video addresses that balancing act, demonstrating how experienced educators have mastered it.
Cognitive Development
The aim of this program is to examine Piaget’s theory and to critically evaluate it in light of modern research. he program concludes that children are more cognitively capable at an earlier age than Piaget suggested, but it is the ages rather than the stages that are disputed. Other developments such as metacognition and theory of mind are outlined, and recent research findings are reported.
Developing the Gifts and Talents of ALL Students
Based on the belief that “a rising tide lifts all ships”, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) is a proven plan for infusing a broad range of high-end learning strategies into existing school programs and standards-based reform initiatives. SEM helps educators and schools develop the gifts and talents of all students by using gifted education teaching practices, with all students.
The Empty Desk: Identifying and Assisting the At-Risk Student
This program focuses on how educators can identify at-risk students, examines the causes of disengagement, and provides strategies that can be used in the classroom to build a strong teacher-student relationship
Girls in Physical Education: Increasing Participation and Success
This program examines some of the reasons why girls lose interest in physical education, then focuses on a number of proven strategies to help teachers tackle the problem.
Growing Up Fast
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In this documentary, filmmaker and author Joanna Lipper follows six teen mothers and several young fathers through their last months of high school. This film goes beyond explaining the difficulties of early parenthood to reveal the compassionate strength, resilience, self-awareness, and insight of these adolescents as they look back on past decisions with enhanced understanding of their consequences.
History of Physical Education in the US
This program traces the history of physical education in the U.S. It covers the foundations of physical education and its development, focusing on such topics as Puritan and Protestant views on physical education, the Muscular Christianity movement, and the YMCA.
Integrating ESL Students into the Classroom
By viewing Integrating ESL Students, classroom teachers of any subject will come away with concrete information and advice that they can use to teach—and reach—their English-language learners (ELLs) better.
Integrating Instruction and Assessment
This program explores the nature of authentic assessment and its impact on curriculum and instruction. And addresses the need for alternative instruments of assessment.
Meeting the Needs of All Students with Technology
Technology equalizes learning opportunities and expands learning challenges for a wide range of students. Using compelling classroom footage, this program features innovations that are empowering all types of learners.
Real Life Teens: Guns at School - How Safe Do Teens Feel?
Gun violence is a growing problem among teens in America. One of the most frightening trends over the last several years has been the rise of gun-related violence at school. A number of reasons have been cited for the emergence of this disturbing phenomenon.
Teens and ADHD: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds for Youth Aged 12–17
Students who are diagnosed with ADHD will find important information as well as support in this video, such as understanding and dealing with the symptoms of ADHD; recognizing the link between ADHD and substance abuse; and creating success at school, at home, and with friends.
Teens and Trauma: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds for Youth Aged 12–17
This video addresses the spectrum of traumatic events teens may experience, discusses healthy and unhealthy reactions to such stress, and explains the importance of dealing with life's challenges without resorting to self-destructive behaviors such as drinking or drugging.
Will to Win: Helping Children Succeed
Why do some children give up on problems easily while others persevere? What makes a boy or girl afraid to try in the first place? This program studies the factors that help create a resilient personality and the reasons why some children back down from challenges.
Winning Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms
Mainstreaming has become a widely used method for including special needs students in the educational process, but it sometimes leaves instructors feeling overwhelmed, under-qualified, and even resentful. This video provides inclusive teams with specific examples of behaviors that can be used in the classroom so that all children benefit from quality instruction.