Reality Matters DVD Series

This exciting new video series from Discovery School ™ guides teens through the unique challenges they face in their lives.

Key Features of Each DVD

• Video Index - Segmented into navigable chapters to quickly find the right content segments.
• Curriculum Units - Key curricular video segments that include pre-and post-viewing questions in a format ideal for integration into classroom instruction.
• Standards Link - Highlights correlation to national education standards.
• Teachers Resources - Includes The Use of Multimedia in the Classroom teacher's guides.

TEACHER'S GUIDES ARE NOT AVAILABLE IN PRINT. TO SEE A TEACHER'S GUIDE, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER THE IMAGE OF EACH DVD.

Reality Matters: Becoming an Adult (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-1-DVD)

Adulthood is known for its responsibilities, one of them is having children. We see the many responsibilities involved in having and rearing a child. These responsibilities are magnified, and unfortunately unfulfilled in many cases, when teens have babies. It's difficult to take on adult responsibilities when you're still in the midst of growing up. This program explores how adolescence is the entry into adulthood, along with the many pitfalls for those who try to grow too fast.

Reality Matters: Big Decisions (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-2-DVD)

If given the choice, who wouldn't choose health over illness? No one. But it's not just one choice that people make - to be healthy or not. It's a series of millions of choices, made every day: Do I wear a seatbelt? Do I try to make a new friend? Do I eat my 10th cheeseburger of the week? Do I go out for the varsity team? Do I drink just because everyone else is? This video focuses on the decisions kids make every day and how to make the best ones possible.

Reality Matters: Cruel Schools (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-3-DVD)

Taunting, teasing, and the playground brawl used to be considered child's play. The schoolyard bully was just another rite of passage in adolescent life. Now, kids report times have changed. From Colorado to Michigan, most kids and experts say bullying is the first step of a continuum of school violence that can escalate to murder.

Reality Matters: Deadly Highs (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-4-DVD)

A new generation of kids are experiencing addiction to drugs and alcohol but a modern world has created an alarming accessibility. Alcohol sales on the Internet are up and have become an increasingly popular way for underage savvy teens to purchase booze. Acid is now available in clever strips that fit neatly inside a school notebook and a large number of teens are quickly becoming addicted to drugs inside their parents medicine cabinets.

Reality Matters: Extreme Measures (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-5-DVD)

In a country obsessed with the perfect body the pressure starts early. Once just thought to be an issue for adolescent girls, the desire to have a body beautiful is impacting kids as young as seven and has moved to boy's locker rooms across the country. But what are the consequences?

Reality Matters: Family and Friends (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-6-DVD)

Some of the most important relationships that we develop are with friends and family. In our families we learn how to accept and receive love ? or not. What we learn at home we take to our intimate relationships outside the family. Our attitudes toward intimacy and sexuality owe a lot to what we see when growing up. In adolescence we go from the shelter of home to having intimate relationships with peers. These include close friendships, dating, and even sex and marriage. This program will explore the different facets of these very important relationships.

Reality Matters: Obesity and Nutrition (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-7-DVD)

Teenagers have always been drawn to junk food, but more than ever, today's teens are suffering at the hands of less active lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits. Explore America's culture of obesity and its contributing factors, along with ways to help kids make healthy choices.

Reality Matters: Risky Business (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-8-DVD)

With adolescence comes new independence. And with that freedom comes choice and temptation to break the rules. Teenagers often risk their futures by skipping school. And when they get a drivers license, it opens the door to a whole new world of risk-taking. The Department of Justice reports, "Today a 15 year old is more likely to commit a violent crime in the U.S. than a 30 year old." Kids often believe that they are invincible. In this program we will take a look at some of the devastating results that occur when kids take risks without fully considering the consequences.

Reality Matters: Sex and STDs (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-9-DVD)

Hormones, peers, the media, and other factors all contribute to the pressure many teens feel to have sex. Examine the realities of that pressure and the risks facing teens today, including STDs and AIDS. Then look at ways teens can protect themselves, including practicing safe sex or abstinence.

Reality Matters: Stress and Anxiety (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-10-DVD)

How much stress are teenagers under today, and what are the specific issues that bother them? Examine the range of ways kids respond to peer pressure, academic stress, and terrorism. Then explore coping mechanisms and the range of available treatments for anxiety, depression, and grief.

Reality Matters: Taking Care of Me (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-11-DVD)

Health is not just about physical bodies. How we feel about ourselves is just as important. In a world that celebrates looks, achievement, money and possessions, it's our emotional health, who we are on the inside, that will ultimately determine our happiness. The teen years are an especially vulnerable time filled with questioning and self-doubt as well as a great deal of stress. This video will explore the many influences and experiences that shape an individual's emotional health, as well as provide specific tools for managing stress and maintaining a positive self-image.

Reality Matters: Under the Influence (DVD) - $69.95 - (# LW-RM-12-DVD)

No big deal. That's what many kids, and even some parents, think about alcohol. It's everywhere: in commercials, on billboards, in clubs and restaurants, in our homes. But disturbing new research from the American Medical Association finds that alcohol permanently shrinks the part of a teenager's brain that controls memory and learning. The damage is being done in greater numbers, and at a younger age than ever. In addition to brain damage and alcohol poisoning, getting drunk also puts you at greater risk of becoming a victim of crime, or even committing a crime yourself. This program will focus on the deadly decisions that alcohol can often lead to.

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