Dear Donna I see Helmut has already listed the 6 classes. No one has replied about a video - probably as there isn't one. I certainly do not know of any, molluscs are usually a tack on to other marine articles. There is now a CDROM on molluscs of NSW Australia. Perhaps something similar in the US? Geoff >From: jwk <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: mollusk presentation >Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:17:01 -0700 > >I'm living on Navajo Indian Reservation in Tuba City, Az and want to do a >presentation on mollusks to children in the schools approximately ages 12 >through 16. I have some specimens of bivalves and univalves from New York, >Florida and Md and some that a kind person sent me that may be from >Australia. I have put them into presentation boxes and I have pictures of >the classifications that I'm planning on glueing to poster board as I, of >course, won't have examples of all the classes. In addition, I'm not an >expert in this field and one of my books mentioned that there were 6 >classes but I can only find five mentioned. Would someone be so kind as to >clarify this for me. I did this once for my children's classes about 25 >years ago but will need to redo my presentation speech. However, I'm >having a great deal of difficulty finding an appropriate video to go along >with the presentation. I bought the Eyewitness "Shells" thinking it was >all mollusks and found that it contained shells of bugs, coconuts etc in >addition to mollusks and is inappropriate for these children from a desert >environment who would be too confused by this. The local libraries in >Flagstaff and Page (both 80 miles away) have nothing to offer and they tell >me that there is no interlibrary loan service in regard to videos. Does >anyone know of a video that would be appropriate for the age group that I >mentioned and be very appealing to said age group? I would appreciate any >information anyone can give me. I feel these kids are missing so much. >Many thanks. Donna _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.