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Three animated adventures. [1st] Ms. Frizzle's class learns the importance of recycling.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Peppermint Patty and a few of her friends create a problem for Charlie Brown when they show up at his house uninvited for Thanksgiving dinner; and the Peanuts gang helps the Pilgrims celebrate the very first Thanksgiving.

Lab partners Anna and Jack investigate the chemical process of photosynthesis--the means by which plants convert air and light to food.

Examines the structure and history of Earth from the perspective of visitors from a distant galaxy, focusing on the formation, eruption, and classification of volcanoes; looks at the difference between magma and lava; features a visit to Horseshoe Lake at Mammoth Mountain, California; and includes a demonstration of how tilt meters are used.

Examines the structure and history of Earth from the perspective of visitors from a distant galaxy, focusing on the properties, locations, and uses of the minerals that form the building blocks of Earth's solid structures; features a visit to an old silver mine; and includes a demonstration of the crystalline structure of minerals.

Examines the structure and history of Earth from the perspective of visitors from a distant galaxy, focusing on the characteristics and formation of different types of rocks; features a visit to the Obsidian Dome rock formation at Mammother Mountain in California; and includes a demonstration of how particles of sediment settle.

Explains how genes determine traits such as eye color and height and how traits are passed from parents to children, discussing chromosomes, DNA, dominant and recessive traits, meiosis, and mutations, and includes an experiment on the DNA of peas.

Examines how to search the Internet strategically, from formulating a solid query to understanding when and how to use search engines, metasearch engines, subject directories, portals, and subscription databases.

An exploration into the heretofore hidden world of the fetus, using cutting edge technology to explore in detail each trimester of pregnancy from inside the womb.

Traces the events of the 1960s, from the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of the counter-culture explosion.

Examines questions about light and the electromagnetic spectrum, describes the physical properties of light, explores the spectrum of energy and the uses of radio waves, x-ray waves, and visible light, and traces the history and inner workings of analog and digital television systems.

Examines nineteenth-century discoveries and theories in the field of physics, looks at Einstein's theory of relativity and the information it provided about planetary motion, discusses the big bang theory, black holes, and the future of the universe, and considers the contributions of Newton, Einstein, and Hawking to the field of physics.

Looks at the parts of an atom and what matter is made of, examines the importance of stability and the difference between ionic and covalent chemical bonds, explains atomic mass and isotopes, and discusses gravity and the black hole theory.

Examines the contributions of early scientists in the field of physics, discussing Galileo's observations of falling objects, Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity, and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the idea of a space-time continuum; and looks at the loss of the space shuttle "Columbia" and its crew, and the physics of space shuttle design.