AIMS Media – (Purchased by Discovery Education)

 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) - http://www.ascd.orgEducation/school administration professional development books, video, kits.

Discovery Education - http://teacherstore.discovery.com/Educational programs for Science, Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, Health & Guidance, Foreign Languages, Fine Arts.  Includes products from Discovery School and United Learning. They own unitedstreaming.

Disney Educational Productions (EduStation) - http://dep.disney.go.com/educational/store Includes Bill Nye, Jeff Corwin, ABC Classroom News, and a wide variety of other education programs.

Clearvue – http://www.clearvue.com/ Formed as a 2004 merger of CLEARVUE/eav and SVE & Churchill Media, Clearvue is a producer and distributor of K-12 educational media in all core disciplines - language arts, social studies, math, science, guidance, health, art, and music.

Facets - http://www.facets.org/asticat Facets Multi-Media, located in Chicago and founded in 1975, is a non-profit media arts organization which provides an wide range of film and video programs.  Facets Video, a division of Facets Multi-Media, is one of the nation's largest distributors of foreign, classic, cult, art, and hard-to-find videos.

Film Ideas - http://www.filmideas.com/ Film Ideas, Inc. distributes & produces media for Guidance, Health & Safety, History, Language Arts, Literature, Math, Safe & Drug Free, Careers, Science, Social Studies, Technology.

Films Media Group - http://www.films.com Source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

GPN (Great Plains Network) - http://shopgpn.com/ GPN produces Reading Rainbow®, Know It All, and MathVantage and distributes materials from many producers, including Children’s Television Workshop (producers of Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Classroom Contact, and Ghostwriter), Lancit Media Entertainment, Ltd. (producers of The Puzzle Place, and Backyard Safari.)

History Channel - http://store.aetv.com Sells their TV programming.

Human Relations Media - http://www.hrmvideo.com/ Specializes in subject areas including Health, Drug Education, Career Education, Science, Math and Language Arts.  Programs are typically 25 minute videos accompanied by a teacher's resource book that includes a summary of the program, learning objectives, student activities and handouts, fact sheets and other student materials that add depth to the learning experience.

* Library Video Company - http://www.libraryvideo.com/ Leading distributor of educational video, DVD and audiobooks. In addition, LVC owns Schlessinger Media and is their primary distributor.  Website includes streaming previews, teacher guides, blackline masters, online ordering, same day shipping.  Their online catalog also includes many feature/commercial videos.

Mackin  http://mackin.com/

Media Incorporated - http://www.mediaincorporated.com/ Produces and sells Charley Chapters series, as well as the Sharp Wits series on research skills, library skills, language arts, health, math, science, guidance, social studies.

NIMCO, Inc. - www.nimcoinc.com Sells materials related to food/nutrition, health, diet, and culinary arts.

SchoolMedia, Inc. -  http://www.schoolvideos.com/ Distributor of educational video, including their own "100% Educational Videos" brand. Their website offers streaming previews, teacher's guides and the ability to order online.

Spoken Arts – http://www.spokenartsmedia.com Spoken Arts® offers literature-based programs through storytelling adaptations in audio and video for grades K-6, including authors Patricia Polacco, Jan Brett, Janet Stevens, Molly Bang, and Eve Bunting.

PBS - http://www.shoppbs.org/

unitedstreaming - http://www.unitedstreaming.com/index.cfm With subscription, search and download videos and/or video clips.  Includes media produced by Discovery School, United Learning, Scholastic, Standards Deviants, and Weston Woods products.  unitedstreaming owned by Discovery Education.

 WGBH Boston - http://main.wgbh.org/  WGBH produces many PBS prime-time programs and Web lineup, including NOVA, home video and podcasts, teaching tools for schools and home-schooling, services for people with hearing or vision impairments.

NOTE:  To find information about TV or feature films, go to the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com )

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