I will be putting a disclaimer on all my reviews so far…but once Indy grows up the show takes a very dark and disturbing turn. There’s very little education involved in it (though it’s still there, just minor), and it’s […]
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, episode 5
(Volume 1, episode 5 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones) View on Amazon Prime Indy in the Classroom Link Setting: India and China Topics: Discussion of major world religious beliefs, God, spirituality, Chinese culture, traditional Chinese medicine including acupuncture. Historical […]
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, episode 4
(Volume 1, episode 4 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones) View on Amazon Prime Indy in the Classroom Link Setting: Russia and Greece Topics: Russian Cossacks, Russian writers, Ancient Greece, Aristotle, Philosophy Historical characters this episode: Leo Tolstoy–Russian author I […]
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, episode 3
(Volume 1, episode 3 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones) View on Amazon Prime Indy in the Classroom Link Setting: Vienna, Austria, and Florence, Italy Topics: love, Italian opera, Renaissance art, Galileo and Da Vinci Historical characters this episode: Giacomo Puccini– […]
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, episode 2
(Volume 1, episode 2 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones) View on Amazon Prime Indy in the Classroom Link Setting: British East Africa (now Kenya), and Paris, France Topics: hunting in Africa, early 1900s art scene in Paris Historical […]
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, episode 1
I’d heard of this show before, and I think I had even before stumbled upon the site Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones, which is an entire website dedicated to using this series to educate kids: The mission of Adventures […]
Meerkat Manor
Have you heard about this show? I had heard of it somewhere (can’t remember where) but never got around to looking it up. Well, Netflix and its infinite wisdom recently recommended this show to me (since my kids watch a […]
VIDEO REVIEW: Liberty Kids
Recently I decided it was time to find something that appealed to my kids more on the topic of history. We’ve been slowly working our way through “The Story of the World” series, but can’t seem to get through the […]
DVD REVIEW: Big Thumbs Up for Popular Mechanics for Kids!
A friend of mine told me about these videos awhile back and I hadn’t gotten around to finding any yet. Just this past weekend we stumbled upon one at the library and now we are HOOKED! My kids cannot stop […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Iron Jawed Angels
Let me first say this is NOT a movie for young children. There IS violence in it. And it is difficult to watch at times. Even for me. But I think its an important movie for all American women, and […]
DVD-People of the Wind
Made 50 years after the movie “Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life” (read my review of Grass here), this movie is very different from its predecessor and is neither silent nor black-and-white. It does still follow the nomadic Bakhtiari people […]
DVD–Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
I’m not sure what made me think of this movie tonight, several years after watching it (and thinking about ordering it again because it was soooo good!)…but I just had to share it here tonight while I was thinking about […]