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Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King (1998)

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Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King. Here's your chance to know the real Colonel Harlan Sanders. He spent most of his life bouncing from job to job and collected his first Social Security check before becoming a success. He also never made it past private in the Army. But his chicken recipe hit it big after he was 65.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:50
Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King

Calvin Klein: A Stylish Obsession (1997)

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His name adorns everything from underwear to perfume. His stylish designs and business acumen built a fashion empire. When Brooke Shields went on national TV and cooed "nothing comes between me and my Calvins," a young designer from New York became a fashion icon. Calvin Klein went from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology to stardom in a few short years.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:50
Calvin Klein: A Stylish Obsession

Cash, Credit, and Your Future (2009)

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Dreams are free, but achieving them takes planning, hard work, and money. Give your students a head start on the money part by showing them how to manage their finances with this video filled with basic money management tips.

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Middle
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Length: 
00:23
Cash, Credit, and Your Future

First Impressions: Winning Over Your Boss and Coworkers (2008)

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Every boss has unique expectations and every company has its own procedures and work environment. How can a new hire sort it all out? This program explores the crucial skills every new employee should develop in order to become a valued part of the team.

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Middle
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Length: 
00:19
First Impressions: Winning Over Your Boss and Coworkers

Key Functions of Business: A Case Study (2006)

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Which part of a company has the most impact on product design? On employee training? On forming relationships with customers? This business case study addresses those questions by examining the needs, strategies, and goals of a major corporation's departments.

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Middle
High
Length: 
00:29
Key Functions of Business: A Case Study

On Your Own: Independent Living Skills (2010)

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Help young adults jump out of the family nest with this practical six-part series! Quick and to the point, each video, focuses on a key area of independent living.

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Middle
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Length: 
02:30
On Your Own: Independent Living Skills

The New Age of Walmart: Go Back Inside the Controversial Powerhouse (2009)

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CNBC's David Faber takes you back inside the biggest company in the world for an all-new, unprecedented look at the retailer. ...Since CNBC first took viewers inside the controversial powerhouse, Walmart has encountered an onslaught of lawsuits, intense criticism and a plummeting stock price, resulting in a time of tumultuous change and re-invention for the company.

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Middle
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Length: 
01:05
The New Age of Walmart: Go Back Inside the Controversial Powerhouse

Sidibaba

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In Sidibaba, players take on the role of Sidibaba and his friends who are searching for hidden treasure in a cave.

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Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
45 min.
Sidibaba

Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills (2006)

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Students often ask why they need to learn things that seem irrelevant to their futures in the workplace. This program helps answer that question by exploring the connection between what one learns in school and what employees do at work.

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Length: 
00:16
Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills

Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens) (2006)

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A teen with a job faces all kinds of decisions about how to use that paycheck: go out to dinner or save for a car? A new iPod or college tuition? Spring break at the beach or a long-term investment? Program introduces the concepts of money management and financial planning for the future in a fun, easy-to-understand manner.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:21
Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens)

Understanding How Stuff Works: Computers (2004)

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Compares the computer with the abacus, traces the invention of computers throughout the decades, identifies the main parts of the computer, meets the creator of the mouse, and speculates about the future uses of computers.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:10
Understanding How Stuff Works: Computers

Duck! Duck! Go!

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Bathtub rubber ducky racing has long been a popular sport. Every year rubber duckies from all walks of life train in bathtubs, spas and small ponds around the world to prepare for the annual Kenducky Derby, the premier bathtub ducky race. duck! duck! GO!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
Duck! Duck! Go!

Kuruwitu: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2011)

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A traditional fishing community on Kenya's coast declares a no-fishing zone along their stretch of coastline in an effort to halt the total destruction of their marine resources, to bolster fish numbers and to create opportunities for marine tourism.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:00
Kuruwitu: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Going, Going, GONE!

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Can you keep calm while bids are rising? Experience the exhilaration of real life auctions!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
Going, Going, GONE!

Acquire

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This Sid Sackson classic has taken many different forms over the years depending on the publisher. Each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
90 min.
Acquire

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