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MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

MAY 2018 MEDIA LIBRARY BOOKING Call: 607-433-1649 Media Library Staff Eileen Coryat - Coordinator NATIONAL PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SPORTS MONTH 607-433-5340 Nutrition and Fitness Debbie Cole- Library Clerk 613.03; ebook, Senior High, 1, Marshall Cavendish Reference, 2011; 607-433-1649 This book, with a wide scope of more than 125 articles, provides information on a diverse assortment of fitness and nutrition topics. Cheryl Miller-Technical Support

607-433-1046 Winning Baseball Strategies Larry Davis - Courier video, Preschool/Kindergarten - Senior High, 32 min., Youth Sports Club, 2002 Winning Baseball Strategies goes into some of best coaching strategies and philos-

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK ophies used at the youth level. This video covers: cutoffs and who takes the throw, back up situations, advanced first and third defensive situations, the delayed steal

Overloaded: Ten Ways To and when to use it, bunting situations, pick off situations and a variety ofad-

Deal With Stress DV 2188 vanced skill strategies. Coach Marty Schupak has been recognized by the ABCA DVD, JHA, 20 min., HRM ME- (American Baseball Coaches Association) and his videos have been recommended DIA, 2018 by the National Alliance of Youth Sports which is the largest amateur coaching

Teens briefly describe some training organization in the country. of the things that cause them unhealthy stress and then the video details Driveway Basketball Drills different methods of managing that stress video, Preschool/Kindergarten - Senior High, 30 min., Youth Sports Club, 2004 including physical activity, getting better sleep, relaxation and meditation tech- The more than 30 basketball drills include shooting, ball- niques, staying connected to others, prob- handling, passing, defensive moves, and offensive moves. Driveway Basketball Drills is especially recommended for personal, community center, and school lem-solving skills and much more. Teach- er's Resource book, student activities and physical education department basketball instruction collections. fact sheets. The Performer video, Kindergarten - Senior High, 29 min., Classroom Video, 2010

High Anxiety: Causes, Symptoms, Help This program explores the methods that help athletes become the competitors DV 2184, DVD, JHA, 19 min., HUMAN RE- they long to be. In addition to weight training concepts, viewers learn the basics of LATIONS MEDIA, 2018 a warm-up/cool-down system, focusing on decreasing the chance of injury as well In this video, a diverse group of teens who as muscle development and increased vascular health. Endurance, flexibility, pow- er, speed, agility, coordination, and reaction time are all explored in depth, within are dealing with anxiety, plus two adoles- cent psychologists, discuss the types of the context of setting targets and goals. Cues, visualization, and finding the zone things that cause anxiety in young people; are discussed. challenging tests, meeting new people, BOOK COLLECTIONS competing in school sports, public speak- ing, etc. The on-camera experts help view- The Incredible Book Eating Boy BC 290, Book Collection (20) copies ers identify if they have an anxiety disor- Like many children, Henry loves books. But Henry doesn’t like to read books, he der. Some of the disorders discussed are likes to eat them. Big books, picture books, reference books . . . if it has pages, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic Henry chews them up and swallows (but red ones are his favorite). And the more disorder and social anxiety. Symptoms of he eats, the smarter he gets—he’s on his way to being the smartest boy in the these and other disorders are explained as world! But one day he feels sick to his stomach. And the information is so jumbled well as ways to cope. The program de- up inside, he can’t digest it! Can Henry find a way to enjoy books without using his scribes the importance of seeking profes- teeth? Author: Oliver Jeffers. sional help when anxiety disorders involve Help Your Kids With Computer Coding: A Unique Visual Step-by-Step Guide more than temporary worry or fear. In- cludes teacher guide, student activities and BC 294, Book Collection (25) copies. fact sheets. A guide to help their children create games and animations using the program- ming languages Scratch and Python. Carol Vorderman.

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BICYCLE SAFETY

Educational Media Library 31 Center Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 I’m Safe! On Wheels DV 1933 Helmet Safety DVD, P, 10 min., Child Safety Solutions, video, Primary 2012 Phone: 607-433-1649 2006 Helmets help to pro- Why, when and how to wear helmets, tect the head in case ELLISON SPRING DIE CUTS how children can check their bikes, of an accident. A and how to be a smart bike properly fitted hel- ELLISON BEE EL 566 rider. Written and re- met can reduce head ELLISON BEEHIVE EL 567 viewed by bicycle safety injury by 85%. Many biking accidents ELLISON BUG/INSECT SET (5 pieces) EL 508 instructors and health edu- involve the head. A helmet can be a ELLISON BUTTERFLY EL 509 cators, includes presenter lifesaver. ELLISON CATERPILLAR EL 512 guide. ELLISON FLOWER PARTS EL 571 ELLISON FLOWER - DAISY #2 EL 609 CINCO DE MAYO ELLISON FLOWER, LAYERED #2 EL 653 Cinco de Mayo ELLISON FLOWER POT - LARGE EL 607 interactive resource, Preschool/Kindergarten - Primary, 2015 ELLISON HUMMINGBIRD EL 639 Learn about Cinco de Mayo. If you thought Cinco de Mayo was ELLISON LADYBUG #1 EL 606 about Mexican Independence, you're in for a surprise! Find out ELLISON REPTILE SET (5 pieces) EL 537 more about how people celebrate and honor this historic day. ELLISON SEED PACKET EL 643 Tour of a Mexican Food Store video, Intermediate - Senior High, 00:11:06, Learning Zone Xpress, 2002 MEMORIAL DAY Ethnic markets are a wonderful way to experience the rich culture and history of MEMORIALS DV 926 many countries! Travel with Chef Andrew Zimmern on his journey through a Mexican food market, learning about the culture and history of Mexico from the DVD, P, 20 min., Film Ideas, 2003 food he encounters-from chilies to vegetables. Take a look at some of the many different kinds of memorials that have been created MEXICO SK 227, Study Kit, PI, 2003 to celebrate important. MEXICAN CULTURE KIT EX 17, Exhibit, I, 2003 Memorial Day Includes a variety of items - One book: Faces, People, Places and Cultures of interactive resource, Primary, 2015 Mexico; a doll dressed in a traditional festival costume; a serape blanket; a Day Learn about Memorial Day, a federal holiday of the Dead diorama; Mexican currency; a handcrafted wooden top; a drum; in the United States for remembering the maracas; Mexican music CD; a song book; and several items from a Mexican su- people who died while serving in the coun- permarket including pasta dental - a toothpaste box; Zucaritas - a box of Frosted try's armed forces. Flakes; a Coca Cola can and more. WORLD TURTLE DAY TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY Study kits: We thank all of our teachers for their hard work, dedication. and playing such Folkmanis Turtle Puppet/Books SK 611, an important role in shaping our students futures. Reptiles and Amphibians SK 173, PI Endangered Animals SK 506, Grades 2-5 Teacher Appreciation Week | All About the Holi- days video, Kindergarten - Intermediate, 2015 Turtle, Turtle, Watch Teaching is one of the world's most important pro- Out! picture book, fessions. That's why, every May, we celebrate Teach- EBOOK, Charlesbridge Books er Appreciation Week to honor all the teachers in our Sea Acclaimed nature writer April Pulley lives who have helped us learn and grow. Sayre highlights the role that humans have in helping this endangered species.

P = Primary K-3 J = Junior High 7-8 A = Adult/Teacher I = Intermediate 4-6 H = High School 9-12 Audience Levels of Resources MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

Educational Media Library Gold Mountain Dreams 31 Center Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 video, Senior High, 01:30:26, Bill Moyers, 2003 In the 1840s, civil war and famine in southern China drove thousands of young Phone: 607-433-1649 men to seek their fortune in the California Gold Rush. This program traces the Chi- nese experience in America, from their welcome in San Francisco as celestial men CYBER ETHICS of commerce, through the Gold Rush and building of the Transcontinental Rail- road, to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act banning their entry into this country. This Rise of the Trolls program rediscovers the often-overlooked role of the Chinese and tells their stories video, Preschool/Kindergarten - Senior High, through the lives of individuals using photos, artifacts, and interviews with de- 52 min., Sideways Film, 2016 scendants and historians. (89 minutes)

Has Internet anonymity unleashed a dark You Decide: Japanese American Internment? | A Biography of America demon lurking in all of us? This film reveals interactive resource, Senior High - College/Adult, 2000 the hard truths surrounding anonymity, dark Less than a year after the United States entered World War II against Japan, nearly instincts, and freedom on the Internet. all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were imprisoned in internment Smartphones have put the Internet into our camps. In this interactive from A Biography of America, participate in a debate on pockets and billions of people around the world are now connected online. Our lives whether this action by the U.S. government was appropriate. have improved greatly, but this freedom has also made us vulnerable to a new kind of Chinatown: Strangers in a Strange Land predator the Internet troll. Hiding behind a video, documentary film, Kindergarten - Senior High, A&E Networks, 2000 veil of anonymity, trolls indulge their darkest This program presents a unique view of a unique place, taking viewers inside Chi- impulses, attacking whoever they want with natown to view the Chinese-American experience through the eyes of the people impunity. Once you become the target of a who live it every day. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (94 minutes) troll, what starts as a minor annoyance can escalate into a living nightmare. But who are trolls? And will the fight to stop them de- A Farewell to Manzanar BC 258 stroy our personal freedoms? In this film we Book Collection, JH, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 meet: one of the most notorious online trolls Reading Level 4.9. Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 who spends hours every week insulting and when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at infuriating as many people as he can, just for Manzanar internment camp-with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. laughs; Britain’s most notorious troll: a This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's young woman jailed for sending six threat- attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention...and of a na- ening tweets; the very first recorded troll in Internet history who led a digital invasion of tive-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up a cat lovers chat board; a feminist blogger behind barbed wire in the United States. Author: James D. Houston, Jeanne Wa- whose trolls are ramping up their tactics to katusuki. harass her family; a Canadian psychologist who published the first-ever study of Inter- Under the Blood-Red Sun BC 119 net trolls, uncovering the four dark personal- -FIC-; Lexile: 640; Book Collection, IJ, PERMA-BOUND, 0440411394 ity traits that drive trolls in their cruelty; an GRADES 5-8. Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a accused Twitter troll whose precedent- setting court case will affect freedom of local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the speech online worldwide; and a digital fo- bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Includes a teacher guide. Author: Gra- rensics expert who tracks down the most ham Salisbury technically adept trolls.

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SPACE DAY

Educational Media Library Space Hygiene: Showering in Space, video, Primary - Junior High, 31 Center Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 Astronaut Mike Fossum demonstrates how to shower in space in this video from NASA.

Phone: 607-433-1649 A Bedroom in Space: Crew Quarters Tour Inside the Space Station video, Primary - Junior High, NEW ADDITIONS TO THE BIRDS OF PREY Japanese astronaut and Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata narrates a vid- eo tour of the crew quarters inside the International Space Station's Harmony node. STUDY KIT SK 109 Due to “molting” feathers on the display Expedition 8 Crew Talks to Students in Japan models we’ve added the following new Folk- video, Preschool/Kindergarten - Junior High, WGBH, 2006 manis puppets to the kit. In this video segment adapted from NASA, watch and listen as Expedition 8 crew members Mike Foale (Commander and NASA Science Officer) and Alexander Kaleri (Flight Engineer) are interviewed by Japanese students.

International Space Station Tour: Harmony, Tranquility, Unity, video, Primary - Junior High, Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams gives a tour of the International Space Sta- Peregrine Falcon tion nodes Harmony, Tranquility and Unity in this video from NASA. The tour includes Great Horned Owl the crew's sleeping quarters and hygiene station.

Astronauts | Science Trek We’ve also included a display of media gallery, Preschool/Kindergarten - Intermediate, 2014 the North American Raptor Eggs, On this Science Trek, host Joan Cartan-Hansen and the Science Trek crew travel to DVD– Adaptation: Raptors and a the Johnson Space Center to answer students’ questions about what it takes to be Great Horned Owl talon. an astronaut. PARROT MINIDRONES REALCARE BABY 3 INFANT SIMULATORS

RealCare Baby 3 infant simulators have wire- less programming and reporting capabilities and are used in conjunction with comprehen- sive curriculum and interactive activities. These 3 electronic babies hold users accounta- ble by tracking, measuring and reporting on care events, mishandling, head support ad Parrot Mini Drones Blue Rolling Spider (Set wrong position, surrounding temperatures, of Five) AV 32 clothing changes and time in a car seat. In- The blue Rolling Spider MiniDrone from Par- cludes (3) infants, 2-pc. Outfits, diapers, sleep- rot can fly, roll along the floor, climb walls, wear and bodysuits with tracking sensors, and even traverse the ceiling. It is a 5.5"- bottles, wristbands, car seat, car seat detec- diameter mini quad copter that includes a tion tags, XStick wireless communication adapter and quick start guide. pair of removable wheels for added fun, plus an embedded vertical mini-camera to take MOTHER’S DAY snapshots. No special controller is required - the Rolling Spider is operated by a mobile Holiday Facts & Fun: Mother's Day app and your smartphone. Contains: (5) Mini video, Kindergarten - Intermediate, 11 min., Colman Communications, 2017 Drones, Mother's Day shows how families, individuals, children and others celebrate the (5) Axles, (10) Wheels. (5) batteries, Quick holiday. In addition, it reviews the many jobs mothers take on in their homes start guide and user guide. iPads and iPods and in the workplace. Viewers see how children make Mother's Day gifts. are available if you need them.

P = Primary K-3 J = Junior High 7-8 A = Adult/Teacher I = Intermediate 4-6 H = High School 9-12 Audience Levels of Resources