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Natural History: Insects And Arachnids

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I obtained this video for a college entomology course I teach for elementary education majors. It adequately shows many of the concepts I might want to include and each portion is about 10-15 minutes in length. However, the age most of the videos (most are black and white) might not be as technically interesting as more current video.

I'll admit it, I'm a fan of Animal Planet types shows. I'm sort of a geek when it comes to learning about the different types of critters. that live in the land and the sea.

I watch Discovery Channell all the time and look around for new documentaries. This one did not disappoint. The footage is older than I expected, but seriously, the life of bugs and spiders has not really changed that much over the years.

There were a whole bunch of science geek movies - the best one is about spiders and their life cycle - with enough naration to explain what was going on.

I liked the sheer amount of footage on here.

With this DVD you get what you would expect. This is a collection of vintage bug footage.

I really, really liked it.

It made me realize that there is a whole universe at our feet that we rarely pay attention to - unless it is to squash a spider.

The films give you a ton of information about insects - and let you know why they help, rather than hurt our environment.

It's a good disk.

I teach elementary level students with delays in developmental language. Visual assists such as this DVD set are a MUST HAVE as part of my supplemental curriculum.

I enjoyed this collection of educational films from the 1950s about the life of insects and spiders. It's all told from a very rasonable point of view way, so it never becomes confusing. I'm glad that they assume you don't have much of a background and explain things clearly. The images of the bugs are very well shot and I learned a lot from these films.