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for grades K-5

Five DVD Series with Teaching Guides

English and Spanish versions included on each DVD

Episode Descriptions

• Groark Learns to Control Anger

  Groark becomes so angry at his own mistakes that he accidentally damages his best friend's model airplane. This leads to a heated exchange, and the two nearly come to blows. When the fight is interrupted by the school bell, Groark turns to a group of real elementary school children for a lesson in managing anger. He learns how to tell when his anger is getting out of control, how that can lead to fighting, and how to calm his anger. He uses his newfound skill to calm his friend's anger, and the two make up.

• Groark Learns to Work Out Conflicts

  Groark has a disagreement with his friend over a robot they are building as a school project. Their behavior toward each other quickly leads to a serious rift and the project comes to an unpleasant halt. Frustrated and angry, Groark turns to a group of real children for a lesson in working out conflicts. He learns how to stay calm, talk about the disagreement with the other person, listen to each other's point of view, and look for a solution that makes them both happy. Equipped with this new approach to problem solving, Groark and his friend resolve their conflict, and the robot is saved.

• Groark Learns to Listen

  Groark is working on a dance routine for a talent show with two friends. His failure to listen to their ideas and concerns upsets his friends, causes misunderstandings, and eventually results in one of them being injured. When Groark is told to go away, he turns to a group of real children who help him understand how his poor listening habits caused such trouble and how he can become a better listener. Groark asks his friends for a second chance, and his greatly improved listening skills make everybody happy.

• Groark Learns about Bullying

  Groark is playing with his friends when two of them start teasing and picking on a third one. As the situation escalates Groark gets drawn in, and, before he realizes it, Groark is picking on his best friend. When his friend goes off crying, Groark doesn't understand what happened until he learns from a group of real children how he and the others were being bullies, and how hurtful that was to the victim. Groark returns to the playground, convinces the other kids that they have been cruel and unfair, and together they make peace with the friend they had picked on.

• Groark Learns About Prejudice

  Groark and his friends are planning a party. One of the friends convinces the others not to invite the new kid in school, citing reasons that ring with classic racist beliefs. But when Groark learns that this friend doesn't even know the new kid, he turns to a group of real elementary school children for a lesson in prejudice. They discuss how people sometimes treat others unfairly because of size, age, gender, race, ethnicity and national origin, and why it's important not to pre-judge people. Groark takes this lesson back to his friends and they decide to include the new kid.

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Awards & Reviews

Awards

Golden Eagle —CINE

Gold Award —Parents' Choice Foundation

Gold Apple Award —National Educational Media Network

Telly Award

What People Are Saying...

"This series is very effective for encouraging students to contribute to a group discussion. This series is bound to be a hit at your school."
—Denise Allen, Media Specialist - Union Hill Elementary, High Point, NC

"McGee is comfortable on camera, the script laces the realistic confrontations with humor and sparkling songs, and the children react spontaneously and credibly."
—Irene Wood, Booklist

"These programs on a timely topic will be a good addition to school library collections for use in classrooms or with individual students."
—Fay L. Matsunaga, Twombly Primary School, Fort Lupton, CO

"A great violence prevention series for children was long overdue...with Groark the gap has been filled. Highly recommended. Editor's Choice."

—Randy Pitman, Video Librarian

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Teaching Guides

Each of our DVDs includes a very useful teaching (facilitator's) guide that provides engaging, thought-provoking discussion questions, writing assignments, and group and individual learning activities that support the lesson. You'll find these guides very helpful for creating lesson plans.

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• Volume 1: Groark Learns to Control Anger
• Volume 2: Groark Learns to Work Out Conflicts
• Volume 3: Groark Learns to Listen
• Volume 4: Groark Learns about Bullying
• Volume 5: Groark Learns About Prejudice

Companion Materials

POPCORN PARK: THE SIX PILLARS OF CHARACTER

Character education DVD series

Groark's Birthday Surprise!

32 page picture book for early readers

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