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Uses songs, colorful graphics and role-playing activities to teach students the rules of school bus safety.

Follows a day in the lives of two children and their families in Canada, providing insights into the lifestyles, family interactions, foods, celebrations, schools, and other aspects of Canadian culture.

Presents musical adaptations of three children's stories, including the title work, a cumulative tale in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.

Explores Chinese culture and language as Katya, Jade, Nikolai, and Wesley visit San Francisco's Chinatown, discuss Chinese ingredients and cooking tools, and prepare egg flower soup, stir-fried chicken, and almond cookies.

Explores the history of the Civil War, providing information about its causes, and following the course of the conflict through the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Documents the annual migration of Antarctica's emperor penguins to their nesting grounds, and their care for their eggs and newly hatched chicks.

Bill Nye the Science Guy answers questions about simple machines, and conducts experiments that demonstrate how gears make work easier and increase speed and energy, and show how to make a simple pulley.

Recycle Rex and his dinosaur friends decide to be less wasteful and learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle when their soccer field is threatened with being turned into a garbage dump.

Explores archaeological sites and artifacts, art, architecture, and writings to provide insights into life in the ancient Aztec empire, focusing on the clash between Spanish invaders and the Aztec people which led to the collapse of the empire and the destruction of its culture.

Explores archaeological sites and artifacts, art, architecture, and writings to provide insights into life in the ancient Incan empire, looking at Incan buildings and the ruins of the city of Machu Picchu, and discussing the empire's medicine, life and customs, influences, food, and children's activities.

Explore the history and culture of the ancient Mayan civilization and discusses the beliefs and practices of modern Mayans.

Presents an overview of U.S. federalism, explaining how the government is divided into separate spheres of power: the nation and the state.

Follows a young film producer as she travels across Europe in search of information about the people, places, and thinking behind Renaissance developments, focusing on aspects of everyday life, including homes, diet, and clothing.

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate urban legends, including if a child be lifted off the ground by helium balloons and if ping pong balls can be used to raise a sunken ship.

Peppermint Patty and a few of her friends create a problem for Charlie Brown when they show up at his house uninvited for Thanksgiving dinner; and the Peanuts gang helps the Pilgrims celebrate the very first Thanksgiving.