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The following titles are approved by the State of New Mexico's Instructional Materials Adoption Program. They are included in the official Instructional Materials Catalog and are eligible for purchase by all New Mexico Public Schools and any educators who feel they could benefit from the materials. For convenience, the titles have been grouped into the following categories:
Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth Science
Birds of the Bosque (video)
Showcases the beautiful birds, mammals, and scenery of New Mexico's Bosque del Apache refuge. Tens of thousands of birds migrate here every year. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling
(U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 14 minutes
Cattle Breeds of the American Southwest (video)
Cattle are the largest agricultural commodity in the West and will continue to be an important part of the land's heritage. This video, designed for middle school students to adults, gives an illustrated description and history of the many different cattle breeds that can be found today. Each breed offers unique assets, characteristics, and abilities to the cattle industry.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 12 minutes
Desert Blooms: A Sunscape Guide to Plants for a Water-scarce Region (CD-ROM)
Designed for home owners and gardeners as well as for landscape installation and maintenance professionals, this CD-ROM offers information on planning and maintaining an efficient, water-wise landscape. Includes a searchable database with more than 400 native Chihuahuan Desert and adaptive plants and full color photos that can be printed. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Evolution of the Rio Grande (video)
Through the magic of computer animation, travel back in time to the birth of the mighty Rio Grande Valley. This video takes an in-depth look at the Rio Grande, including how its soils and structures were formed. The Rio Grande's secrets can teach us about the cycles of life on a grand scale.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling
(U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 19 minutes
Desert Soils: Unlocking the Past, Understanding the Future (video)
A breakthrough scientific study in southern New Mexico called the Desert Project provided valuable new research information about arid lands. Desert Soils looks at today's understanding of deserts, including soil taxonomy, desertification, and the role of desert regions in issues like global warming. A follow-up to Evolution of the Rio Grande, this video is ideal for high school and college classes, as well as those interested in the desert.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling
(U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
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Farm Chemicals: They're Good For The Crops, But They're Not Good For You (video)
Row after row of beautiful crops are part of our community, but playing in or near fields can be dangerous for kids. With the help of an animated talking plant, this video teaches children about the benefits and hazards of chemical insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. Ideal for children and caregivers, this video stresses the importance of avoiding irrigation water; washing fruits and vegetables before eating them; and properly storing and disposing of containers that may have held farm or household chemicals.(Also available in Spanish)
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
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Crazy About Corn - No longer Available
Crazy About Corn - Educational Package
Includes curriculum guide, CD-ROM, videotape, and audio cassette.
Perfect for classroom use, this special package contains almost everything in the Crazy About Corn line, including the CD-ROM; Teacher's Resource Guide, chock-full of multidisciplinary activities; the videotape with music videos and supplemental educational segments; and "Hot-Buttered Hits" audio tape and songbook. Activities are perfect for kindergarten, first and second grade students.
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Cost: $45.00 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Crazy About Corn (CD-ROM)
Keep children glued to the computer in the name of education! Games, songs, activities, and animation help children with pattern recognition, memory, counting, alphabetization, geography, and elementary scientific concepts. The CD-ROM, geared for ages 5 to 8, is compatible with both Windows® and Macintosh® platforms. See more...
Cost: $22.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Crazy About Corn - Hot Buttered Hits and Songbook
Includes audio tape and songbook.
Fifteen original songs will get your toes tapping and your lips moving. Play the cassette in your car, at home, or in the classroom and sing along with the words and music written in the book. You'll love the hip beats and the positive messages, such as "It's what's inside that matters most of all."
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Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Crazy About Corn - Video (video)
With lively songs, interesting foods, and fun learning activities, this video also can provide background information for all the lessons in the curriculum guide. See more...
Cost: $11.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 34 minutes
Crazy About Corn - Teachers' Resource Book (paperback)
This curriculum guide for kindergarten through second grade classes includes activities that explore corn, culture, agricultural science, literacy, crafts, and more. The 56-page guide also contains take-along pages for kids to complete at home. See more...
Cost: $10.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Green Cows (video)
Dr. Lowell Catlett discusses future technology, specifically robotics, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 20 minutes
Green Gold: From Maya to the Moon (video)
From locations across the globe, this award-winning video traces three treasures of the New World corn, potatoes and chile peppers and their phenomenal influence on human history. A story of exploration, discovery, life and death, it poses the perplexing question: can we survive if we lose forever the genetically diverse, wild and weedy ancestors of our valuable food crops? See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 28 minutes
Preventing Hantavirus Disease (video - English & Spanish on same tape)
Although the chances of contracting the Hantavirus disease are small, the consequences can be deadly. About half of those infected with the disease will die from complications within weeks. This video, designed for middle school students to adults, teaches viewers how Hantavirus is transmitted, its symptoms, and how people can protect themselves.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 10 minutes
Southwest Horizons Nature Series
Complete series
Explore the wonders of White Sands, the majestic mountains of the desert and experience the magic of bird migration in this dramatic three-video series. These videos feature the people, wildlife, and geology of the American Southwest. Includes all three videos mentioned below.
Cost: $19.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Episode 1 - Chiricahuas: Mountain Islands in the Desert (video)
This tape in the Southwest Horizons Nature Series features the amazing animals, plants, geology, and people of the "wonderland of the rocks," the Chiricahua Mountains on the New Mexico/Arizona border. Plant and animal species meet here in this spectaular biological crossroads of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts, the Rocky Mountains and Mexico's Sierra Madres. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)Approximate Running Time: 61 minutes
Episode 2 - White Sands, White Wilderness (video)
In This tape in the Southwest Horizons Nature Series, you will visit the wondrous gypsum dune environment of New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, the largest of its type in the world. Through dramatic video footage and colorful computer animation, this documentary details the geology, plants, wildlife, and ancestral peoples found nowhere else. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 57 minutes
Episode 3 - Bosque del Apache, Ancient Flyway of the Rio Grande
Episode three of the Southwest Horizons Nature Series presents one of America's premier wildlife refuges. Every winter, this wetland in the desert becomes home to tens of thousands of migratory birds which come to feed in the temperate New Mexico climate. This documentary features spectacular footage of the refuge's huge flocks and many other animals that live in this rich and diverse ecosystem. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Survivors in the Sand (video)
Developed for prime-time national television, this award-winning program takes you on location to the deserts of Australia, Israel, and the American Southwest. Viewers will meet the desert dwellers and scientists who are inventing ways to flourish in the largest ecosystem in the world arid lands. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 60 minutes
The 4-H Egg-to-Chick Program (video)
How does an egg become a chicken? The Egg-to-Chick program was created to help elementary school teachers explain the development and growth of the chicken embryo using actual fertilized eggs. 4-H Agent Frank Hodnett with the Roosevelt County Extension Office visits a second grade classroom to explain the hourly and daily changes that occur as baby chicks form. This video was produced for teachers who plan to use Egg-to-Chick in their classrooms with students of any age.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 23 minutes
The Desert Classroom (La Escuela de Desierto) (laser disc and curriculum guide)
This package includes a laser disc and a series of lessons developed by New Mexico teachers for use with exemplary science materials. The curriculum guide has five lesson units about weather, land and water, plants, animals, and humans. Each lesson corresponds to frames from the video disc to be used when teaching. Lesson plans are English with Spanish vocabulary.
Cost: $40.00 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
The Chihuahuan Desert: Our North American Outback
The Chihuahuan Desert covers the border region of the United States and Mexico and is larger than over 60 percent of the world's nations. This video, hosted by ecologist Kevin Von Finger, looks at the characteristics, geology, and history of this arid land. By showing actual bones, footprints, and habitats of the animals, that inhabited the area, The Chihuahuan Desert tells the story of the dramatic changes that took place to sculpt the desert into its current shape. This video is suited for secondary students and adults. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 12 minutes
Health and Nutrition
Baby Talk: Listening to Your Baby at Mealtime (video)
Even before they can say words clearly, babies communicate with "baby talk." Parents need to listen to their babies to find out when mealtime is over, when a second helping is in order, or when it's time to try new foods. Learn how to understand your baby's talk and help take the anxiety out of feeding time. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 15 minutes
Choices in a Pack (software and curriculum guide)
Choices software and activities provide middle school students with decision-making situations involving cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. Topics are presented with teen issues in mind: popularity, looks, and peer group interests. Designed for a multicultural audience, the curriculum includes two computer-animated games and four classroom units. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Eat Right For Life
Eat Right For Life - A Ten Volume Series (video - English and Spanish) (video)
This video series, available in Spanish, English and Navajo, puts a wealth of information at your fingertips. Learn about the Food Guide Pyramid, shopping tips for kids, ethnic dishes, gardening, drying food, meal planning, budgeting, using the Electronic Benefits Transfer card, healthy lifestyle changes, living with diabetes, and much more.
Cost: $150.00 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Eat Right for Life - Volume 1: The Basics (video - English and Spanish)
Learn what The Food Guide Pyramid is and how to use it. Come along as we watch Ana make food choices throughout the day. Is she meeting the recommended amounts of each level of the Food Guide Pyramid? Get your paper and pencil ready so you can keep track....
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 41 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 2: Healthy Meals (video - English and Spanish)
Would you like your family to eat healthier and save time and money too? This video provides helpful tips to consider when making your weekly shopping list and planning menus. There are also ideas to use to get kids involved and teach them to be smart shoppers. The extra effort will be worth it!
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 33 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 3: Vegetables and Fruits (video - English and Spanish)
Learn why variety is the key with vegetables and fruits. Also learn how to purchase and prepare vegetables in order for a healthy diet.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 33 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 4: Your Money's Worth (video - English and Spanish)
Learn how to use the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. This video shows safety precautions you can take to protect your account and privacy. It also explains which products can be purchased with an EBT card. The envelope method of budgeting is highlighted for tracking purchases and keeping a running total of your EBT account. Combine these tips with smart shopping and healthy food preparation to make the most of your food benefits.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 27 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 5: Fat In Our Diets (video - English and Spanish)
Did you know that some fat is essential in our diets? Too much fat, of course, can be unhealthy. Learn how many grams of fat are recommended per day and find out which products contain fat and in what amounts. Also, learn how to reduce your fat intake.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 36 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 6: Alternatives to the Supermarket (video - English and Spanish)
When you hear the word gardening, perhaps you think of acres of land or lots of work. But even potted plants near a sunny window can be a garden. Also, growing your own vegetables is good exercise. Learn how to stretch your food dollar through gardening, drying foods, and using edible wild plants. Whether you choose to garden indoors or out, the health benefits of growing your own fresh food will be felt by everyone in the family.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 51 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 7: Kids Count (video - English and Spanish)
Help your kids learn skills that will help them in the future. Teach your kids how to be smart shoppers, help prepare meals, and make their own snacks. See how easy and fun it is in this video.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 50 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 8: Mexican and Navajo Dishes (video - English and Spanish)
Learn how to make favorite Mexican and Navajo dishes using healthy alternatives. Foods such as flour tortillas and refried beans, red enchiladas and sour cream, and meat stew and fry bread are highlighted. By using various spices and flavorful vegetable toppings such as onions, you can cut the fat in these traditional foods yet keep the flavor. Little changes, can make BIG differences to your health!
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 32 minutes
Eat Right for Life - Volume 9: Pregnancy (video - English and Spanish)
This video includes one segment, which appears in English and then Spanish. Solutions to problems pregnant women commonly experience, such as morning sickness, are presented. The segment also discusses nutritional needs during this life stage and suggests practical ways women meet these needs.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 35 minutes
Food for Thought - New Mexico Food for Kids (video)
Lights, camera, food. This "Food For Thought" newscast teaches children and adults about the new school lunch program in New Mexico, which provides meals that are lower in fat, higher in fiber, and just as tasty. The news team introduces the Chile Dude, Professor Ivan Shapely, Sir Nygel Food-Guide, and other nutrition "experts" as they embark on a quest for "Way Cool Food!"
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 18 minutes
Food Guide Pyramid: Building a Healthy Body (video) (video - English and Spanish)
Help your children build strong, healthy bodies. This video provides tips for teaching children about nutrition and the Food Guide Pyramid. The step-by-step explanation of the pyramid is helpful in learning how much to eat from each food group. The fun and simple recipes will make kids want to eat their own healthy creations. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 15 minutes
Great Food: Mixes You Can Make at Home (video)
Instead of spending time and money at the grocery store, make versatile, economical, food mixes with common ingredients in your kitchen. Nutrition educators demonstrate step-by-step techniques and time-saving shortcuts for preparing delicious yet simple mixes for pancakes, biscuits, pizza dough, muffins, cakes, cookies, yeast rolls, cinnamon rolls, bread, pudding, and white and cheese sauces. Also included are proper storage techniques for keeping your mixes fresh and new ideas for preparing ground beef. (Also available in Spanish)
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 56 minutes
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Baby (video) (video - English and Spanish)
Before and during pregnancy, moms can give their babies a healthy start by eating right. Learn to use the Food Guide Pyramid to make healthy choices before and after giving birth. Find out the benefits of drinking plenty of water and eating lots of grains, fruits, and vegetables. Young moms will learn that gaining weight during pregnancy is essential for their babies. Eating right can help ensure proper delivery, optimal weight gain, and healthy, happy babies. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 17 minutes
Low-fat New Mexican Entrees (video)
Nutrition educators, chefs, and parents will love this video, which shows step-by-step how to prepare red chile enchiladas, caldillo (meat stew), and smothered burritos. This video can be used for demostration for preparing traditional New Mexican dishes. For health-conscious cooks, several techniques that cut the fat but retain the flavor are demonstrated. (Also available in Spanish)
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
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Yeast Breads Step by Step: Loaf Bread (video)
This video about making mouthwatering loaf bread shows the recipe, proper measuring techniques, kneading methods, and storage ideas. Follow along as nutrition educators demonstrate seven easy steps involved in preparing yeast breads. After each step, the narrator provides an explanation for using the various ingredients and also alternative ingredients and equipment. Impress your family and friends with home-baked bread. This video is also ideal for educator use in workshops, particularly for demonstrating bread-making steps that are difficult to cover in limited time.(Also available in Spanish)
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
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Yeast Breads Step by Step: Dinner Rolls (video)
To make appetizing dinner rolls, you need a great recipe, proper measuring techniques, kneading methods, and storage ideas demonstrated on this video. Follow these seven easy steps for preparing yeast bread dinner rolls as our nutrition educators demonstrate. After each step, the narrator provides an explanation for using the various ingredients and also alternative ingredients and equipment. This must-have video is also ideal for educator use in workshops, particularly for demonstrating bread-making steps that are difficult to cover in limited time. (Also available in Spanish)
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Currently in production
Science and Technology
Changing Learning Environments Through Technology (video)
The NMSU Consortium teaches local middle and high school teachers about new and exciting technologies now being used as teaching aides.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 18 minutes
Composting for a Clean Environment (video)
George Dickerson takes a look at backyard composting and recycling. Cut down on the amount of water waste in landfills. Waste (grass clippings, leaves, food waste, etc.) may be used in conservation efforts.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 27 minutes
Fire: A Tool or A Terror? (video)
These images bring fire's intensity to life. Fire takes a look at the use of this ancient, economical tool and the many benefits it brings when used correctly. Prescribed burns can actually stimulate plant and wildlife growth in ecosystems. This video is ideal for secondary science classrooms or anyone interested in forestry and ecology.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 8 minutes
Fire and Water: Restoring a Piñon-Juniper Ecosystem (video)
Restoring ecosystems destroyed by mismanagement and exploitation is an essential to preserve the earth for future generations. In south-central New Mexico, a partnership between researchers, ranchers, and rangers in the Carrizo Demonstration Area has taken on the task of restoring the natural piñon-juniper ecosystem that encompasses much of the Southwest. This video, told from the perspective of those who started and support the Carrizo project, is ideal for adults.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 27 minutes
Outdoor Learning Environments for Schools (video)
Teachers can use the environment and school gardens to teach math, science, and creative writing.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Currently in production
Rodent Robbers (video)
Prairie dogs and pocket gophers are on the prowl in agricultural areas, where they cause thousands of dollars in damage annually. This video, ideal for agricultural producers and others with pest problems, reviews a variety of effective methods for managing rodents.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 20 minutes
Seamless Society (video)
Decades ago, futurists predicted that our society would change greatly before the next millennium due to technological advances. Today that scenario has become a reality for many and it is most evident in the American workplace. View the progress of technology and its effect on the workplace. Seamless Society gives you profiles of several different business people and how they've learned to adapt in the age of telecommunications and virtual offices. See the consequences of these new business methods, as host Lowell Catlett shows you the pros and cons of technology in everyday life. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 57 minutes
Shooting Sports: Black Powder, White Smoke (video)
Join Gunsmoke Gus for a historical look at the muzzleloader that helped tame the American Wilderness. Today, historical reenactments and outdoor events offer youth and adults a safe and fun way to better understand this bit of Americana. This video stresses the safety, science, and operation of black powder muzzleloaders and is an exciting look at one of today's fastest growing outdoor sports.
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 12 minutes
Technology Unplugged (video)
Join Barbara Copeland as she teaches you about computers, without even turning one on! If you've heard words like RAM, hard drive, database, and networking, but you never really understood what these terms mean, you'll love the way this video walks you through computer basics using plain, everyday English. Perfect for teachers and technology trainers of any skill level, this tape can you develop a down-to-earth teaching style that makes technology easy to understand and fun to learn. See more...
Cost: $9.95 plus shipping and handling (U.S., Canada, and Mexico: $4.00. Overseas: $6.95)
Approximate Running Time: 17 minutes