Social Studies

The Police Wars (2004)

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Two programs:
The Cold War

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:56

On March 23, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed a proclamation opening two million acres of Oklahoma land to settlement. A month later, with a teeming crush of pioneers, the Oklahoma Land Rush was on.

Lincoln

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This inspiring and revealing drama focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final four months in office as this visionary leader pursues a course of action to end the Civil War, unite the country and abolish slavery. Complete with never-before-seen footage featuring Steven Spielberg and the cast, who take you deep inside the making of the movie, Lincoln sheds light on a man of moral courage and fierce determination.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

02:30

Choking in the Fast Lane (2006)

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Power Play Series: Part 1

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:52

Energy (2006)

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Power Play Series Part 2

When man made the first primitive tools that helped him to shape and control his surroundings he discovered an important secret - the value of energy. It would give him power to develop an entire world.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:52

Fossil Fuel (2006)

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Power Play Series Part 3

The western world has built its affluence on fossil fuels. Our addiction to coal and oil is no longer healthy neither for mankind nor the planet. So the question is, how do we replace fossil fuels?

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:52

What is a Community? (2006)

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This program defines community in a global context that includes all countries of the world as well as city and country populations. Stresses that diversity is the fundamental strength of all communities. Gives examples of the services, population, occupations, businesses, and methods of transportation that are available in urban, rural, and suburban communities.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:10

Desert Celebration (2006)

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Feast India presents a glorious odyssey through Indian culture, religion, and cuisine. This beautifully filmed series journeys through different parts of India to encounter its sumptuously colored and richly divergent lifestyles.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:23

We The People

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This video contains several short 1-2 minute clips relating to the history of the Declaration of Independence.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

00:28

Diwali (2006)

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Feast India presents a glorious odyssey through Indian culture, religion, and cuisine. This beautifully filmed series journeys through different parts of India to encounter its sumptuously colored and richly divergent lifestyles.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Village Life (2006)

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Feast India presents a glorious odyssey through Indian culture, religion, and cuisine. This beautifully filmed series journeys through different parts of India to encounter its sumptuously colored and richly divergent lifestyles.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:23

1945, Part 5: The Future Takes Shape (2005)

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"This series documents the struggles of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in the last year of World War II as each sought to impose his conception of the post-war world on the others. The war would soon be over, but who would win the peace and dominate the world?

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:45

This Child, Every Child

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Copies: 7

Children make up one-third of the world's population. But who are these 2.2 billion children and what are their lives like? Author David J. Smith's search for answers takes readers around the world to meet children of all ages, nationalities and religions.

Author:

David J. Smith

Lexile:

1020L

If the World Were a Village

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Copies: 7

At this moment, there are 7 billion people on the planet! It's hard to picture so many people at one time - but what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people?

In this village:
21 people speak a Chinese dialect
10 earn less than two dollars a day
14 cannot read or write
45 have a television in their homes
47 do not always have enough to eat

Author:

David J. Smith

Lexile:

840L

Let's Eat!

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Copies: 7

What we eat says a lot about who we are and where we come from. The five children in this book live in very different countries, and they each have their own ideas about what tastes good. But they have lots in common, too: they all go food shopping and help with the cooking, share mealtimes with their families, eat special foods to celebrate, and have things they love to eat and things they definitely don't.

Author:

Beatrice Hollyer

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The Police Wars (2004)

Stop the Train!

Lincoln

Choking in the Fast Lane (2006)

Energy (2006)

Fossil Fuel (2006)

What is a Community? (2006)

Desert Celebration (2006)

We The People

Diwali (2006)

Village Life (2006)

1945, Part 5: The Future Takes Shape (2005)

This Child, Every Child

If the World Were a Village

Let's Eat!

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