Customer Reviews

Eyewitness: Ocean

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I purchased this for my four year old grandson for Easter of '10. He will sit and watch the entire presentation with hardly a wiggle. This is a real winner for children who love nature. I will be purchasing other DVD's in the series for him in the future.

Soon to be 6 y.o. grandson loves anything to do with marine life... he loves it!

This is a really high-quality series of shows that I keep coming back to for my 2.5 yr old daughter. Her favorite of the series is BIRDS, it seems to have the most action and cuts back frequently to the progress of a single duckling hatching. She gets very excited and points and usually tells me at least a few times throughout the rest of the day that "the baby duck came out of the egg!"

OCEAN is more general, and skips around more between different kinds of subjects like the history of ocean exploring, the development of SCUBA, that sort of thing. I find it interesting and older children would probably enjoy it even more, but I think my daughter just wants it to show more film of fish, dolphins, whales, etc. She'll tune in for her favorite action segments, then wander around and play while it shows the continents moving around or whatever she doesn't really get. If you're interested in science enrichment for the preschool set, also check out Sid the Science Kid: The Bug Club

My kids love these DVDs - I highly recommend them. Shipping and purchase were easy and very quick with Amazon. Will shop again.

This was a cute disc, but it would be for elementary school classes to see, rather than high school or junior high counterparts.
Like Copernicus, this work doesn't present humans as the be-all to end-all of the group. It does mention that we have the least hair and that we depend upon the hair and milk of other mammals for survival. This work said things I didn't know. It said 1/4 of all mammals are bats. It said all mammals have a similar lower jaw.
I would think a work on mammals would speak almost exclusively about milk and lactation. However, this work focused on fur more. I could be a dummy: but I was very shocked to see marsupials included here. Their first stages of life seem so different from "normal" mammals that I never expected to see them in this work.
This series is clearly meant to lure in viewers who don't care for science as an additional audience. The narrator recalls myths from around the globe about some mammals. Still, when they spoke of centaurs and mermaids, I thought they went too far. There's more than enough to learn about real mammals that one doesn't need to see mythical filler. Plus, wouldn't a mermaid not be deemed a true mammal? (I'm thinking of how on the British "Office" when the characters argued over Spock being Vulcan or half-human.)
The Jungian in me was very comfortable with this work. I see mammals and feel calm. Insects or parasites are another story. This work covered the living species that I find cute, or at least not horrifying.