Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
film
FilmDVD

Title The way things work. Steam power / a Millimages, Pearson Broadband and Schlessinger Media coproduction in association with France 5, ZDF, TVO, TFO ; producer, Emmanuel Franck ; director, Diego Zamora.

Publication Info. Wynnewood, PA : Schlessinger Media, 2003.
©2002

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J DVD 621.109 STEAM    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (13 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
System Details DVD, all regions, NTSC.
Note Based on the book by David Macaulay.
"Teacher's guides included and available online" -- Container.
Audience Grades 3-6.
Summary Two young Mammoth Islanders enlist the help of a visiting inventor to design a machine that will make the rides at the amusement park much more exciting. After observing the power in the expanding steam of a tea kettle, they decide to build a steam engine that would convert heat energy to mechanical energy that will power everything from spinning cotton candy to powering roller coasters.
Note Special features: discussion questions & activities.
Language English and Spanish language soundtracks; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Steam-boilers -- Juvenile films.
Steam-turbines -- Juvenile films.
Physics -- Juvenile films.
Steam engines.
Physics.
Genre/Form Children's films.
Educational films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Franck, Emmanuel.
Zamora, Diego.
Macaulay, David. Way things work.
Millimages (Firm)
Schlessinger Media.
Pearson Broadband.
Added Title Steam power
ISBN 1417100753
9781417100750
Standard No. 753201111630
Music No. V6029 Schlessinger Media
-->
Add a Review