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How things move: Roll, slide, bounce, and spin. Discover many different ways objects can move. Give your students a preliminary lesson in physical science with this fun program designed to get children thinking about pushes and pulls. Students enjoy learning about position, movement, and the forces used to make objects move.

Transportation in and between communities: Discover how transportation moves people and goods from one community to another. Advantages and disadvantages of land, water, and air travel are shown and compared. How transportation has changed over time through technological advances is illustrated with light-hearted historical footage of man's first attempts to fly. Following a pineapple from foreign field to local grocery will help students understand how important transportation is to trade. Students see the impact on our environment as well as new forms of transportation.

How'd they build that big truck?: Get an up close look in High Definition at the process of building the most fascinating machines on the road. Take a video field trip through some of the largest manufacturing facilities in the world. After you see how they are built hop into the driver's seat to see what these vehicles do and how they do it. Learn how they work from a driver's view.

How a diesel train works: This fun and informative animated video feature shows kids how diesel trains work followed by shots of real diesel trains in action.

How steam trains work: This talking locomotive shows how steam trains work. This fun and informative animated video feature shows kids and families how steam trains work followed by shots of real steam trains in action.

How to drive a diesel train: Knowing how to drive a diesel train engine is every child's dream. Now children can see all the moving parts inside the cab and learn how all the controls work to drive a diesel train.

How to drive a steam train: Now children can learn how engineers drive a steam train in this animated video clip. You'll learn about all the controls the engineer needs to drive a steam train followed by real live video of train engineers driving a train!

All about the caboose:Meet Kirby Caboose the talking train caboose who will tell your kids all about what a caboose is, how it was invented, what it did in the old days and the End of Train electronic device that is now used instead of a caboose at the end of trains.

Carl the train conductor: Carl the Train Conductor teaches children all about the jobs that a conductor does on the job.

How fast trains go: Find out how fast different kinds of trains go in this train video for kids. Children will see all kinds of railroad trains from the earliest steam trains to today's unbelievably fast bullet trains.

Train couplers: This video teaches children how train cars are connected with the use of couplers.

Train horns: Have you ever wondered why trains blow their horns? See how they talk to each other with horn blasts and what they mean. Did you know there is a special code that the engineers have to talk to each other? This fun animated train video for kids and rail fans shows what each blast of the horn means as they signal each other and the railroad workers to communicate different train operations.

Train sign safety: A fun way to teach your children about crossing signs and signals at train tracks! Join our talking train sign as he takes you and your kids through all the kinds of train warning signs and gates and what they mean.

Train tracks: How train tracks are laid video shows you cool track laying machines and how they work putting down the railroad ties and rails that trains ride on. Learn about how many miles of train tracks there are, old time track laying, modern day track laying machines, ballast and train beds, wooden ties, concrete railroad ties, plus more!

Ages 5-7.

Grades K-2.