The following CD ROMs may be ordered from Scantron Quality Computers.
Multimedia History Reference Guide
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Entrex Software
1998
Win95, Win3.1, Mac OS (CD-Rom)
Teaches history, US Colonies, Revolutionary War
Queue, Inc.
1996
Mac OS (CD-Rom)
Teaches Social Studies, History of US around 1835
Harper Kids Interactive
1996
Win 95, Win3.1, Mac OS (CD-Rom)
Teaches life in Colonial Times
National Geographic Interactive
1998
Win.95, Win3.1, Mac OS (CD-Rom)
Teaches history
Byron Priess Multimedia
1997
Win.95,Win 3.1
Teaches history
Clearvue
1996
Win.95, Win3.1, Mac OS (CD-Rom)
Teaches history through art
Queue Inc.
1994
Mac CD Rom, Win
Teaches music appreciation
DZS, Inc. Education Publication
1996
Win.95, Win3.1
Teaches history - What's happening elsewhere during that period
Bureau of Electronic Publishing
1995
Windows CD Rom
1492 to present
The following video cassettes may by ordered from Filmic Archives by calling 1-800-366-1920, sending e-mail to custsrv@filmicarchives.com or writing to Filmic Archives, The Cinema Center, Botsford, CT 06404-0386.
1995, B&W. This video features the live action reenactment of the story of the native American princess Pocahontas and the English Captain John Smith. It also illustrates the many problems the colonist experienced with the British, which led to the Revolution. 71 minutes, 2 videos $19.98
Experience a typical day in 1627 Plimoth. You'll hear the stories of the people who settled in the New World and the Native Americans who helped them survive. 30 minutes $49.98
A trip into our seafaring past. Hear the creak of timbers as you climb aboard a whaling ship and witness a showcase of 19th-century maritime living. 30 minutes $29.98
A bronze Telly aware-winner. History comes to life in one of America's earliest communities, which has stood for more than 200 years. 30 minutes $29.98
1984. Color Shot entirely on location at "Plimoth Plantation" in Massachusetts, where residents have re-created the original settlement historically accurate in every detail. Watching the Pilgrims live out their daily schedules gives viewers an understanding of everyday life for the Puritan settlers. 27 minutes $49.98
1994. Color. Relive a tragic collision of cultures: the Utopian ideals of the Northeast natives and the challenge of Christianity. Mohawk, Seneca, Penobscot, Oneida, Wampanoag - a peaceful people who cherished a communal lifestyle, branded savage by righteous Europeans. 50 minutes $19.98
Color. Keith Carradine and Annette O'Toole star in this powerful family drama adapted from the best selling novel by Elizabeth George Speare. It is a compelling story of survival: the survival of one boy, alone in the wilderness, and the survival of a family threatened by separation, epidemic fever and other hardships in the wilds of Maine during the early 1700's. 93 minutes 2 videos $29.98
Color. The British are coming Disney Film Classics invites audiences of all ages to return to the days of the Revolutionary War to relive some of America's proudest moments. Join young Johnny Tremain, Paul Revere and the gallant Sons of Liberty as they rebelliously toss English tea into the water of Boston Harbor. 80 minutes $19.98
Color Disney Film Classics takes you back to the year 1764, when a peace treaty between the Delaware Indians and the British requires that all white captives be returned to their people. Johnny Butler kidnapped by the tribe as a child and renamed True Son, is forced to return to his white family in Pennsylvania, against his will. His escort, frontiersman Del Hardy and Shenandoah, a beautiful servant girl try to help the boy adjust to his new way of life. But the White man's injustice and cruelty drive him back to the Delaware, where even greater dangers await him. 92 minutes $19.98
The following videos may be ordered from the Library Video Company.
These three titles are the first in a series that will grow to include other early colonies. Follow along in the dramatization as modern-day kids blast back in time to the actual sites of these settlements to learn what daily life was like and how people, both colonists and Native Americans, came to live there. Set: $89.95, Each: $29.95
Titles include:
25 minutes each $29.95
Color. Amos he Mouse leads Ben Franklin to prominence in science, diplomacy, & publishing. This insightful and entertaining program shows Franklin's contributions to the Declaration of Independence, his experiments with electricity, and founding of the first daily newspaper in the U.S. 25 minutes $9.98
For list of books, activities, games, etc. see Past Ports.
Compiled by Mary Strine.
Created: August 3, 1998
Last Update: August 16, 1998
Web Site Address: http://schools.bvsd.org/coalcreek/early/cdrom.html