This portable curriculum library is designed to help your students confront many of the emotional and social changes that accompany early adolescence. Each unit examines...

Classification with Ph.D.s Robert Karplus and Celia Stendler Lavatelli Drs. Robert Karplus and Celia Stendler Lavatelli use Piagetian classification tasks to...

Formal Reasoning Patterns with Ph.D.s Robert Karplus and Rita Peterson This film illustrates the tasks Dr. Piaget and his collaborators developed to probe the thinking...

Teasing, bullying, peer pressure…These are all behaviors that are challenging for middle school kids – especially shy ones – to deal with. How should they respond...

This fast-paced program uses humor and appealing animations to introduce middle schoolers to the many changes that accompany adolescence. Program goes beyond the...

Caught up trying to fit in and please others, students often engage in harsh self-judgment and self-blame that can negatively affect their health, school work, behavior...

Three videos and print curriculum show how acts of discrimination can be turned into positive lessons of affirmation and hope. Viewers are introduced to children who are...

This comprehensive video and print curriculum gives young students the tools they need to build respect for themselves, for others, and for their environment in the...

Do you know students who talk about themselves in negative ways? Avoid putting themselves in situations where others could judge them? Always make excuses? Don’t feel...

Combining entertaining video dramas with lesson plans, student activities, overheads and a teacher’s resource book, this series of four videos and print curriculum...

Everyday teenagers are bombarded with images in the media that make them feel insecure about their own bodies. Using a mix of dramatic vignettes, humorous animation and...

Viewers of this live-action video or DVD learn that being responsible means helping out when you’re asked, following the rules, and doing the right thing without being...

What is good self-esteem? How do you get it? Using dramatic vignettes, viewers learn that self-esteem is determined by how much we value ourselves and our abilities...

This unique, comprehensive video-and-print curriculum addresses many issues important for middle school students as they deal with new challenges including figuring out...

Narrated by Erikson's colleague, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, Ph.D. and Ruthie Mickles, Ph.D. Using archival materials and newly shot footage, this film introduces students...

What is a frenemy? How can you recognize a frenemy? How can a frenemy hurt you? Can you fix a relationship with a frenemy? When do you walk away from a friendship? This...

Positive intimate relationships with spouses, relatives and friends are incredibly important to mental health in adulthood. John Bowlby's Attachment Theory shows how...

John Dewey wrote extensively about philosophy, psychology, education, political science, and the arts. In his very full 92 years of life (1859-1952), he not only wrote...

Born more than 25 years before Piaget or Vygotsky, Maria Montessori understood the constructivistic nature of all learning. As she observed children building their...

Mary Ainsworth’s “Strange Situation” is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close...

This five video series offers vital information to middle school students as they deal with dealing with peer pressure, cheating, bullies and their own...

This video presents important information to help pre-teens gain knowledge about puberty and feel more comfortable with the process of moving toward adulthood. The video...

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The...

Treading new ground in the field of social psychology, Albert Bandura’s work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small...

It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause awkward situations just as do...