Lyla Wolfenstein

hi,

my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife videos. he was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory he saw when he was still in school - and then made the leap to the wildlife thing - so anything in between those two genres might be interesting too. any suggestions? sources for such media?

thanks!
Lyla

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Kris

The Planet Earth series is amazing, you could probably find it at the
library.

Kris
--
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis


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Lyla Wolfenstein

awesome! thanks. is this the right one?

http://shopping.discovery.com/product-65763.html?endecaSID=11F38F106540


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The Planet Earth series is amazing, you could probably find it at the
library.

Kris
--
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

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Lyla Wolfenstein

or is it this?
http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Earth-Complete-David-Attenborough/dp/B000MR9D5E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233611061&sr=8-1

or are they the same!? lol


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awesome! thanks. is this the right one?

http://shopping.discovery.com/product-65763.html?endecaSID=11F38F106540

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The Planet Earth series is amazing, you could probably find it at the
library.

Kris
--
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

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Kris

This is the one I saw, Sigourney Weaver was the narrator, extremely well
done.

Kris

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Lyla Wolfenstein <lylaw@...> wrote:

> awesome! thanks. is this the right one?
>
> http://shopping.discovery.com/product-65763.html?endecaSID=11F38F106540
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>
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> The Planet Earth series is amazing, you could probably find it at the
> library.
>
> Kris
> --
> Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival
> value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
> C. S. Lewis
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Jenny C

>>>>> my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife
videos. he was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory
he saw when he was still in school - and then made the leap to the
wildlife thing - so anything in between those two genres might be
interesting too. any suggestions? sources for such media?<<<<


Sometimes, my kids get into an animal/wild life kick, and on those
occasions, we've left the TV on all day, on Animal Planet. We actually
did that last week and watched an interesting variety of things on and
off all day long.

Lyla Wolfenstein

yeah - my kids used to like animal planet - oscar doesn't anymore. i am not sure why except i think there are too many of those emergency vet / sad animal stories.

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John and Amanda Slater

Search for IMAX movies.  We have gotten lots of interesting ones through the library and Netflix.  Fantastic colors and lots of variety.

Amanda
Eli 7, Samuel 6





















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Margaret

http://www.arkive.org/ has pictures, videos, and descriptions of how
animals live. We looked at that a lot when my daughter was really
into watching animals nurse. Just note that you need to search for
"suckling" as nursing doesn't seem to be the term they use most of the
time.

"Animals are Beautiful People" is great. It is an old
movie/documentary by the people who did "The Gods Must Be crazy" and
it has some of that same charm. It is very fast paced and action
filled and has cool things like finding water in the desert using an
ant hill, melon seeds and a salt lick.

We loved "Life of Mammals" and "Planet Earth" was very good too. They
are both narrated by David Attanborough and seem to have some overlap
in footage. I think there is also "Life of Birds" but we haven't seen
it yet.

We like some of the National Geographic videos too, but a lot of the
ones we have seen are slow paced and have a lot of talking. Lots of
focus on the scientist and how they work. My son, almost 3, loves the
video Dinosaur Hunters but their volcano documentary did nothing for
my daughter (5.5) who loves volcanoes. There was a lion video, too,
that was ignored in spite of a love of lions. My husband and I like
them, though :)

My kids haven't gotten into the IMAX films that we have seen. The
pace was too slow.... but maybe we have just seen the wrong ones. I'd
love to hear specific recommendations about things that people like.

Margaret



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Lyla Wolfenstein <lylaw@...> wrote:
> hi,
>
> my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife videos. he
> was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory he saw when he
> was still in school - and then made the leap to the wildlife thing - so
> anything in between those two genres might be interesting too. any
> suggestions? sources for such media?
>
> thanks!
> Lyla
>
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>
>

raisingexplorers

kids.nationalgeographic.com has tons of stuff on animals.. videos of
many of them, sounds clips and info. Best of all, you choose which
ones you are interested in. :D

Margaret

I wanted to add that there are lots of great animal videos on youtube,
too. Here are some that I particularly remember:

Jessica the Hippo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NueKXS6dk
Zebra vs. Lion (Zebra wins): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NyQSHTVOU


Lots of funny pet videos, too - I remember one where a jumps out at a
bear that is funny.

Another animal thing that might be fun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2197287.ece A
picture and short article about a dog taking care of baby tigers.


Margaret

Bernadette Lynn

If he's interested in insects then Life in the Undergrowth might be good for
him:

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Undergrowth-David-Attenborough/dp/B000EBD9W6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233632768&sr=1-5


I would recommend anything by David Attenborough though. I think my children
probably know Blue Planet and The Living Planet by heart but we've all
enjoyed the others too.



Bernadette.



2009/2/2 Lyla Wolfenstein <lylaw@...>

> hi,
>
> my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife videos.
> he was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory he saw when
> he was still in school - and then made the leap to the wildlife thing - so
> anything in between those two genres might be interesting too. any
> suggestions? sources for such media?
>
> thanks!
> Lyla
>
>
--
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U15459


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cathyandgarth

--- In AlwaysLearning@yahoogroups.com, Bernadette Lynn
<bernadette.lynn@...> wrote:
>
> If he's interested in insects then Life in the Undergrowth might be
good for
> him:

I was just going to suggest that! Also Life of Mammals, Life of Birds,
and Blue Planet. My kids basically love all of the BBC documentaries --
including Walking with Dinosaurs and the prehistoric beasts one. All
of these are available on Amazon, as they are not cheap, we have only
purchased the ones that aren't available at our local library which
carries the majority of the series.

Cathy

Lyla Wolfenstein

thanks for all the ideas everyone. i should have said that insects are NOT his thing (actually quite afraid of them) but pretty much any other animals. i found the planet earth series mentioned previously, and it looks like there is a version with david attenborough and one with sigourney weaver - the attenborough one got better reviews so i ordered that one. thanks again!

Lyla

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Schuyler

There is a Life on Earth, The Living Planet, Trials of Life, Life of Birds, Life in the Freezer, The Private Life of Plants, Life in the Undergrowth and Life in Cold Blood, all David Attenborough presentations. He's retired now, although David and I did just watch a programme Attenborough did on Charles Darwin (February 11th is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth) called Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life.

I looked for a silkworm video and there are lots of little moments about silkworms on youtube, but I found this great Smithsonian article about silkworm cultivation in Italy: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/spin-cycle-sidebar.html. If you scroll down to the bottom of the article there are links to someone who is a hobby sericulturist.

Oh, I just went to itunes and looked up animal vodcasts, the Cleveland Zoo has one, there is an interesting, if slow, series of someone's strange backyard bird feeder and how birds handle getting at food in a heavy duty ziploc bag. I'm sure there's more. Oh, the natural sciences seems to be where to look. Interesting vodcasts there. Life on Terra looks like it might have potential.

Schuyler




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To: AlwaysLearning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 12:18:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] ideas for videos/tv shows/online stuff?

http://www.arkive.org/ has pictures, videos, and descriptions of how
animals live. We looked at that a lot when my daughter was really
into watching animals nurse. Just note that you need to search for
"suckling" as nursing doesn't seem to be the term they use most of the
time.

"Animals are Beautiful People" is great. It is an old
movie/documentary by the people who did "The Gods Must Be crazy" and
it has some of that same charm. It is very fast paced and action
filled and has cool things like finding water in the desert using an
ant hill, melon seeds and a salt lick.

We loved "Life of Mammals" and "Planet Earth" was very good too. They
are both narrated by David Attanborough and seem to have some overlap
in footage. I think there is also "Life of Birds" but we haven't seen
it yet.

We like some of the National Geographic videos too, but a lot of the
ones we have seen are slow paced and have a lot of talking. Lots of
focus on the scientist and how they work. My son, almost 3, loves the
video Dinosaur Hunters but their volcano documentary did nothing for
my daughter (5.5) who loves volcanoes. There was a lion video, too,
that was ignored in spite of a love of lions. My husband and I like
them, though :)

My kids haven't gotten into the IMAX films that we have seen. The
pace was too slow.... but maybe we have just seen the wrong ones. I'd
love to hear specific recommendations about things that people like.

Margaret



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Lyla Wolfenstein <lylaw@...> wrote:
> hi,
>
> my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife videos. he
> was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory he saw when he
> was still in school - and then made the leap to the wildlife thing - so
> anything in between those two genres might be interesting too. any
> suggestions? sources for such media?
>
> thanks!
> Lyla
>
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Schuyler

Oh, what about Google Earth and, the new chapter, Google Ocean? A completely different way of exploring the world of nature. I was looking at New Zealand not long ago and find lots of information about animals there, endangered and otherwise, linked to Google Earth. There's an article at the Telegraph about it: http://tinyurl.com/cascas



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From: Schuyler <s.waynforth@...>
To: AlwaysLearning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 10:33:00 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] ideas for videos/tv shows/online stuff?

There is a Life on Earth, The Living Planet, Trials of Life, Life of Birds, Life in the Freezer, The Private Life of Plants, Life in the Undergrowth and Life in Cold Blood, all David Attenborough presentations. He's retired now, although David and I did just watch a programme Attenborough did on Charles Darwin (February 11th is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth) called Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life.

I looked for a silkworm video and there are lots of little moments about silkworms on youtube, but I found this great Smithsonian article about silkworm cultivation in Italy: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/spin-cycle-sidebar.html. If you scroll down to the bottom of the article there are links to someone who is a hobby sericulturist.

Oh, I just went to itunes and looked up animal vodcasts, the Cleveland Zoo has one, there is an interesting, if slow, series of someone's strange backyard bird feeder and how birds handle getting at food in a heavy duty ziploc bag. I'm sure there's more. Oh, the natural sciences seems to be where to look. Interesting vodcasts there. Life on Terra looks like it might have potential.

Schuyler




________________________________
From: Margaret <margaretz@...>
To: AlwaysLearning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 12:18:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] ideas for videos/tv shows/online stuff?

http://www.arkive.org/ has pictures, videos, and descriptions of how
animals live. We looked at that a lot when my daughter was really
into watching animals nurse. Just note that you need to search for
"suckling" as nursing doesn't seem to be the term they use most of the
time.

"Animals are Beautiful People" is great. It is an old
movie/documentary by the people who did "The Gods Must Be crazy" and
it has some of that same charm. It is very fast paced and action
filled and has cool things like finding water in the desert using an
ant hill, melon seeds and a salt lick.

We loved "Life of Mammals" and "Planet Earth" was very good too. They
are both narrated by David Attanborough and seem to have some overlap
in footage. I think there is also "Life of Birds" but we haven't seen
it yet.

We like some of the National Geographic videos too, but a lot of the
ones we have seen are slow paced and have a lot of talking. Lots of
focus on the scientist and how they work. My son, almost 3, loves the
video Dinosaur Hunters but their volcano documentary did nothing for
my daughter (5.5) who loves volcanoes. There was a lion video, too,
that was ignored in spite of a love of lions. My husband and I like
them, though :)

My kids haven't gotten into the IMAX films that we have seen. The
pace was too slow.... but maybe we have just seen the wrong ones. I'd
love to hear specific recommendations about things that people like.

Margaret



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Lyla Wolfenstein <lylaw@...> wrote:
> hi,
>
> my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife videos. he
> was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory he saw when he
> was still in school - and then made the leap to the wildlife thing - so
> anything in between those two genres might be interesting too. any
> suggestions? sources for such media?
>
> thanks!
> Lyla
>
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>
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claire.horsley08

The BBC series 'Galapagos' (narrated by Tilda Swinton) is both a nature documentary and an
historical recreation of how Darwin first started to develop the theory of natural selection -
photography is absolutely stunning.

We also have a number of little Schleich animal figurines that my daughter loves to use to act
out scenarios (most of them quite bloodthirsty!). As a result of watching Planet Earth and
Walking with Dinosaurs so many times, she has quite a realistic view of how animals interact
in the wild.

cyrusnmayasmama

We have really enjoyed the "Nature" shows produced by PBS. They have
all been really fascinating and well done. The first one we saw was
"Cloud - Wild Stallion of the Rockies"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cloud-wild-stallion-of-the-rockies/introduction/29/
And it remains our favorite -
You can get them from Netflix.
~Alyse


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wrote:
>
> yeah - my kids used to like animal planet - oscar doesn't anymore.
i am not sure why except i think there are too many of those
emergency vet / sad animal stories.
>
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Robin Bentley

In addition to those mentioned, we liked the documentary "The Wild
Parrots of Telegraph Hill": http://www.wildparrotsfilm.com/

and my daughter's favorite animal movie (fiction, but good
nonetheless) is "Duma" a story about the friendship between a boy and
a cheetah:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/duma/

Robin B.

Gwen

Lyla,

Here are some of the animal cams we check regularly:

National Zoo
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/

Monterrey Bay Aquarium
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/cam_menu.asp

San Diego Zoo
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/livecams/

Shamu cam
http://seaworld.com/sitepage.aspx?PageID=375

National Geographic Africa
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/wildcamafrica/

Gwen


--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Lyla Wolfenstein <lylaw@...> wrote:


hi,

my son (10) just expressed an interest in watching some wildlife videos. he
was remembering a facinating movie about a silkworm factory he saw when he was
still in school - and then made the leap to the wildlife thing - so anything in
between those two genres might be interesting too. any suggestions? sources
for such media?

thanks!
Lyla

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