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Our videos offer educational approaches that can guide children to become motivated, questioning and thoughtful learners. Currently available — each with its own companion learning guide — are the following videos, which are available for individual purchase or as a set.

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The complete series includes: When Learning Comes Naturally, Values Go to School, From Pictures to Words, & When a Child Pretends

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      Price
Complete VHS Series    $94.95
Shipping    $15.00
Total    $109.95

Complete DVD Series    $107.95
Shipping    $10.00
Total    $117.95

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When Learning Comes Naturally    (NEW)

How can children be encouraged to make a lasting connection to nature? When Learning Comes Naturally shows how schools can introduce children to the natural world and to involve them in a process of outdoor discovery. Beyond the immediate benefits to child development that come with exploration and improvisational learning, time spent outdoors can cultivate in children a permanent caring for the natural world — a crucial ethic of environmental responsibility.

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VHS: When Learning Comes Naturally    $29.95
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Total    $34.95

DVD: When Learning Comes Naturally    $29.95
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Total    $34.95

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Values Go to School

Values go to School suggests that ethical issues are inseparable from the life of the classroom and the school. Documenting classroom life from kindergarten through high school, this program observes educators who have made values, a part of their curriculum. But what kinds of values do we want to embrace and foster?

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VHS: Values Go to School    $24.95
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Total    $29.95

DVD: Values Go to School    $29.95
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Total    $34.95

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From Pictures to Words

How do children come to literacy? From Pictures to Words represents the view that encouraging young children to make pictures to invent their own graphic representations sets the literacy process in motion.

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VHS: From Pictures to Words    $24.95
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DVD: From Pictures to Words    $29.95
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Total    $34.95

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When a Child Pretends

Increasing pressures to begin formal academic work in the preschool years and a misunderstanding of the nature of play are diminishing the time and attention given to creative play in the classroom and at home an alarming development, according to many child development professionals.

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VHS: When a Child Pretends    $24.95
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DVD: When a Child Pretends    $29.95
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Total    $34.95

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Statement of Principles

The Learning Child Series is about guiding the whole child attending to cognitive development in the context of a child's social and emotional growth, recognizing that each child is unique and that every child's needs are different. Read more »

Guided by the Child Development Institute at Sarah Lawrence College

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