Help your kids explore six essential character virtues with the Popcorn Park Puppets. In each video the puppets become entangled in problems that require them to sort out right from wrong. With a little help from Socrates and his female counterpart, Diotima, they learn to ask the right questions and do the right things.
Complete with inspiring songs and delightful humor, these videos provide a fun way to engage your students in thinking, talking, and writing about the kinds of people they want to be.
GREAT STORIES! GREAT PUPPETS!
GREAT SING-ALONG SONGS!
Each volume in the series is approximately 25 minutes in length. A teaching guide is included on each DVD providing discussion questions, writing assignments, and group learning activities. Companion materials, including classroom posters and a storybook, are also available to help you extend the lesson even further.
TO SEE DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH OF THESE SIX VIDEOS, CLICK HERE.
Parents' Choice Award Winner
"We had just completed a Responsibility unit last month, and the video was an excellent culmination of the lesson. I loved the way the video “connected” with the definition of responsibility…and the children NOTICED. The students just loved the colorful characters and inviting settings in the video. The video was able to keep the full attention of the students. The songs were excellent in expressing the feelings of the characters." —Becky Mouser, Counselor, Cravens Academy
Awards & Reviews
Awards
KIDS FIRST! Endorsement —Coalition for Quality Children's Media
Distinguished Achievement Award —Association of Educational Publishers
Parents' Choice Award —Parents' Choice Foundation
Honors —National Parenting Publications Awards
Creative Excellence Award —U.S. International Film and Video Festival
2004 Awards Portfolio Winner —Media & Methods Magazine
What People Are Saying...
"The educational and entertaining content of this well-planned series makes it a must purchase for school media centers and public libraries."
—Carol Y. Barker, School Library Journal
"Imaginative and effective."
—John Kelly, Youth Today
"Leaders in the field of child and youth guidance, producers David Elkind and Freddy Sweet have created another winner with this lighthearted (but strong-minded) series that mixes realistic scenarios and solid ethics with kid-friendly humor and bouncy sing-along songs. Highly recommended."
—Randy Pitman, The Video Librarian
"We had just completed a Responsibility unit last month, and the video was an excellent culmination of the lesson. I loved the way the video “connected” with the definition of responsibility…and the children NOTICED. The students just loved the colorful characters and inviting settings in the video. The video was able to keep the full attention of the students. The songs were excellent in expressing the feelings of the characters."
—Becky Mouser, Counselor, Cravens Academy
"Bring character education to your school with The Six Pillars of Character video series. Covering respect, responsibility, citizenship and more, the videos contain plenty of music and humor to captivate elementary students."
—Today’s Catholic Teacher
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.
Please click below for a printer friendly PDF version of each guide.
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