How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the perspectives of historians shift? This unit recaps the economic and political events that led to the rise of the West, but examines and re-examines those events through differing opinions of its causes, reflecting changes in historical interpretation.
Arts teachers develop relationships with community members and organizations by bringing artists into the classroom, taking students beyond school walls, and asking students to draw inspiration from the voices of their community. In this session, participants see a guest choreographer who challenges the students with her working style and expectations. A visiting theatre artist helps playwriting students develop monologues based on interviews with people in the neighborhood. A visual art teacher and her students work with community members to create a sculpture garden in an empty courtyard at their school, drawing inspiration from a nearby sculpture park. A band teacher invites alumni and local professional musicians to sit in with her classes, giving students strong musical role models.
How do we know students are learning? Because assessment often provides only small snapshots of learning, this session provides teachers with a variety of tools and strategies to assess students
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What distinguishes living things from dead and nonliving things? No single characteristic is enough to define what is meant by
with Evelynn Hammonds, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologynnEvery 10 years, American citizens get a new view of who they are. In this workshop, a selection of Census forms over the past 200 years shows how categories of race and ethnicity not only reflect, but can shape and sometimes obscure, America
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What does the study of families and households tell us about our global past? In this unit examining West Asia, Europe, and China, families and households become the focus of historians, providing a window into the private experiences in world societies, and how they sometimes become a model for ordering the outside world.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
During this period, America seemed to lose its innocence. Its writers now began to struggle with the problems that accompanied modernization and industrialization. It was also the beginning of the lost generation of American authors. 1913-Poet William Carols Williams publishes his first book of poems, The Tempers; 1914-Carl Sandburg publishes his poem Chicago; 1920-Edith Wharton wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence; 1922-The Innovators: E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller; 1923-Robert Frost publishes Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; 1925-F. Scott Fitzgerald writes The Great Gatsby.
In his tribute to Revolutionary War sites in New York City, Dave also pay tribute to contemporary New York, the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway in New York City, and the New York tradition of Lombardi's pizza. Beginning at the Shrine to Liberty on Long Island, Dave recalls how their overnight retreat and the dense fog that descended saved Washington's troops. Dave explains that prisoners of war were kept in horrible conditions on ships in the Hudson River and that 20,000 of the 30,000 Hessian troops hired to supplement the British army died from unsanitary conditions, rather than battle wounds. The defeat at Fort Washington is followed by the Battle of Harlem Heights that renews the faith of Americans that they can win the war against the British.
Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Philadelphia take center stage in this program. As the merchant class grows in the North, the economies of southern colonies are built on the shoulders of the slave trade. Professor Miller brings the American story to 1763 with the Peace of Paris and English dominance in America.
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What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.
Native Americans had established a rich and highly developed tradition of oral literature long before the writings of the European colonists. This program explores that richness by introducing Native American oral traditions through the work of three contemporary authors: Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo), and Luci Tapahonso (Navajo).
This is the orientation program for GED Connection, it takes a look at the series and how you can use it to help prepare for the GED test. The GED test has five parts to it: math, social studies, science, reading, and writing. There are GED Connection programs that correspond to each part of the test, although some parts (like math) have more programs. The reading programs have one program that correlates with each type of reading material that may be encountered on the GED test, which is fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. The writing programs show how to approach writing as a process in order to organize your thoughts better. The math programs cover topics like geometry, measurement, data analysis, formulas, algebra, and statistics. The science programs cover life science, earth science, and space science. Lastly, the social studies programs cover topics like maps, world history, and civics and government.
Introduces the Language Arts/Writing section of the series by referring to the GED test itself. Students and experts outline the structure of the test. GED graduates relate their experience of taking the test. GED administrators and counselors, literacy instructors and writers give advice on how to approach test questions and manage time. The episode also provides examples of test questions and essay material.
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A pre-teen blogger discusses their feelings, relationships and concerns about school friends, family and more.
Scientists from the Smithsonian Center for Tropical Research document the astounding abundance of diversity in tropical rainforests to discover why so many species coexist that are competing for the same resources. In North America, the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction project explores why removing just one species dramatically changed the distribution of plants and animals up and down the food web.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
In Good Shape is the weekly health show on DW, covering all aspects of health care: what's new in medical treatment, alternative medicine, wellness and fitness - as well as nutrition and beauty. In our studio interview we discuss topics in-depth with specialists, and offer you opportunities to pose your own questions. Dr. Carsten Lekutat and Stefanie Suren are alternate hosts of the program and will provide a combination of video-rich features and insightful interviews that grapple with some of the larger issues in medical treatment and healthcare. As an interactive feature of the program we also ask viewers to request a program topic Dr. Carsten Lekutat is a qualified General Practitioner and works as a doctor in Berlin. He is also responsible for training medical students at the Berlin Charite hospital. Stefanie Suren is executive producer and presenter of In Good Shape. 'Keep it simple and straightforward' - that is her goal as a reporter, producer and presenter.
Systems of synchronization occur throughout the animate and inanimate world. The regular beating of the human heart, the swaying and near collapse of the Millennium Bridge, the simultaneous flashing of gangs of fireflies in Southeast Asia: these varied phenomena all share the property of spontaneous synchronization. This unit shows how synchronization can be analyzed, studied, and modeled via the mathematics of differential equations, an outgrowth of calculus, and the application of these ideas toward understanding the workings of the heart.
Professor Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portrait of a decade. Lyndon Johnson emerges as a pivotal character, along with Stokely Carmichael, Fanny Lou Hamer, and other luminaries of the era.
Burdened with the legacy of colonial imperialism, the Third World rushed development to catchnup with its Western counterparts.n
This episode looks at how writers use language to communicate with their readers. Voice, style, format and point of view are presented as ways to taylor writing to a particular audience. Teachers and writing experts discuss types of language to use and to avoid for conciseness in expressing ideas.
After the Civil War the modern American novel took shape led by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain and Henry James. In this period, as the 19th century drew to a close and the 20th century began, America's literary voices seemed to come from everyone and from everywhere. 1868-Louisa May Alcott writes Little Woman; 1878-Henry James writes Daisy Miller; 1885-Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; 1906-Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle is published; 1906-The whole country speaks - Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Theodore Deiser, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson are authors whose writings spanned the scope of the nations from coast to coast.