Year of the Black Pony You Can Do It! Education Series You Can RefuseYour Amazing Body SeriesYour Choice...Our Chance (Introduction)Your Choice...Our Chance SeriesYour Reputation: Make It, Change ItYear of the Black Pony (Print-Fiction). Morey, Walt. Blue Heron Publishing (BLH), 1989. 124 p. ISBN 0-936085-14-2 ($6.95 U.S. pbk.).
Set in the early 1900s, this heartwarming story tells how a 13-year-old farm boy perseveres in his struggle to get and break a wild pony. As Chris works toward this goal, his father dies and his mother remarries out of necessity. The novel describes how his mother and new father gradually grow to love each other and are able to create a "real" family for Chris and his sister.
Suggested Use: Grade 8 - Family Structures, Roles, and Responsibilities
Other Use: English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
You Can Do It! Education Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the title: Program Achieve: A Curriculum of Lessons for Teaching Students How to Be Successful in School and Life.
You Can Refuse (Video). Altschul Group (MAG), 1993. 17 min. Order no. 372-31-572 ($99.00).
With realistic scenarios, this program shows teenagers using refusal skills that enable them to stay out of trouble and still retain valued friendships. These teenagers generate alternatives and propose health-enhancing behaviours. The program provides an excellent model for the health education decision-making process. A leader's guide accompanies the video.
Suggested Use: Grade 8 - Peer Pressure
Your Amazing Body Series (Video). Please refer to the title: The Immune System: Your Body's Personal Defense System.
Your Choice...Our Chance (Introduction) (Video). (Your Choice...Our Chance Series). Agency for Instructional Technology (MGR), 1990. 30 min. Dup. order no. V3498. Teacher's Guide for series - Order no. G3498 ($2.25 loose-leaf).
This program introduces the Your Choice...Our Chance Series and is designed to highlight this drug abuse prevention project's overall goals and objectives, describe and illustrate the various components of the series, and introduce teachers, other school personnel, and interested community members to the ten student programs. Short segments of the other programs are shown, as well as scenes showing a class and its teacher involved in using the materials. Supporting print material is available from Media Group.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - Drug Addictions and Gambling; Grade 7 - Alcohol and Other Drugs; Teacher Reference
Your Choice...Our Chance Series (Video). Please refer to the titles: The Big Break (Media), Decisions (Decisions & Actions), Fitting In (Stress), A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), Good Practice Today! (Refusal Skills), I Need to Talk to You,I Think I Am (Self Concept), Like You, Dad (Wellness), Parents and Schools (St. Louis, Missouri), Partners (Burlington, Wisconsin), Penalty Kick (Risk Factor), Sister, Sister (Health Enhancing), Sunrise House (Salinas, California), Thanks...But No Thanks (Peer Pressure), We Can't Do It Alone, and Your Choice...Our Chance (Introduction).
Your Reputation: Make It, Change It (Video). Sunburst Communications (SUN), 1996. 30 min. Order no. 2577-03 ($169.95).
Using real-life scenarios and on-screen discussion questions, this program emphasizes that people are largely responsible for the way that others view them. It provides pauses to allow opportunities for discussion and reflection on how personal behaviour can affect a reputation. The program provides four specific steps for changing a reputation. A teacher's guide accompanies the video.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - Personal Standards; Self-concept