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The United States acquired vast territories between the time of the
Revolution and the Civil War, paying a price economically, socially, and politically. This unit examines the forces that drove such rapid
expansion, the settlers moving into these regions, and the impact on the Native Americans already there. (This unit includes a facilitator
guide, video, and online text chapter.)
Found by grazianione in American History in the Making Series
March 8, 2010 at 01:52 PM
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The human population of our planet now exceeds 6.5 billion and is rising. Much of this growth is projected for the most environmentally fragile regions of the world. Will studying the history of the world's population growth help predict the Earth's "carrying capacity"?
Found by laneyk in The Habitable Planet: Effect of Human Activites
March 16, 2010 at 09:09 PM
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States and capitals are discussed. The video goes region by region and highlights a state then tells it capital, its nickname, and where the name of the state came from. Great for learning regions, states, and capitals.
Found by Barb in 50 States and Capitals
July 12, 2009 at 05:04 PM
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This BBC documentary is suitable for high school students. Centuries before the coming of Islam and before the days of the Songhay, Mali and Ghana Empires, there were some massive cities in the Niger Delta region which rivaled those of Mesopotamia. (06:11)
Found by teresahopson in Ancient Africa
August 6, 2009 at 02:27 PM
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Discusses what makes up geography; land, water, people and their lives and how land and water affect them. Geography also includes climate. Climate is the weather pattern in a region of the world over a long period of time. One of the major factors affecting our climate is the Sun. The way the Earth moves around the Sun affects the climate. This video discusses rotation, revolution, year, axis, hemisphere, latitude, lines of latitude, and equator. This video discusses what causes the different climates. This video shows the vocabulary using a picture of the Earth. This is a very good video to show students when discussing climate. (09:03)
Found by Barb in Climate
July 12, 2009 at 05:00 PM
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Video accompanied by text. "The Louisiana Purchase offered the United States much needed room to grow and access to an abundance of natural resources, waterways, and fertile farmland. Countless opportunities awaited the Americans, but they would first have to locate them. The Louisiana Territory was so large that France could not accurately define its contents or borders. Jefferson took advantage of the ambiguous agreement and asserted that it included the Missouri River, western Florida, New Orleans, and all of present-day Texas.
To evaluate the purchase, Jefferson planned an expedition. As a scientist, he wanted to know about the plants, animals, geographical layout, and inhabitants of the region. More importantly, however, the president was hoping to find a water route to connect the Mississippi River with the Pacific Ocean, and he expanded the expedition to investigate regions beyond Louisiana..."
Found by helpingnorth in Lewis and Clark
December 15, 2009 at 02:04 PM
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This video is accompanied by text. "When Mexico gained its independence from Spain, Texas was a sparsely settled frontier province bordering the United States. Texas, explored by the Spanish as early as the 1500s, was largely neglected in the centuries that followed. Only a few thousand Mexicans—known as Tejanos—lived in the province by the early 1820s, most of them clustered around the mission at San Antonio. The Mexican government encouraged Americans to emigrate to Texas in an effort to create a military buffer between marauding Indians and the more southern provinces. The Americans were required to give up their citizenship, convert to Roman Catholicism, and become Mexican citizens. In return, they were granted huge tracts of land in the region bordering Louisiana, along the Sabine, Colorado, and Brazos Rivers..." (Professionally produced material with scholarly ideas and arguments.)
Found by helpingnorth in The Mexican-American War
December 26, 2009 at 08:19 PM
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Children share postcards that discuss continents, countries, the equator, the Prime Meridian, and the regions of the United States.
Found by adrumm in North American Geography
May 14, 2010 at 08:45 AM
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This video is about California land regions. California coast, mountains, valleys, and desert are discussed in the video.
Found by grazianione in California
August 6, 2009 at 01:55 PM
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In this video, the sates and their capitals are discussed. All 50 states are detailed within this video, but they are broken down into regions. Each region is explained and then each state and its' capital is discussed. Along with learning the states and their capitals, this video helps children learn the state capitals by relating each state to facts. It uses video clips, pictures and narration. Run time 08:09.
Found by ammthd in 50 States and Capitals
November 27, 2010 at 03:54 PM
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Trail of Tears
From pbslearningmedia.org, produced by WGBH Educational Foundation
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In this video segment adapted from American Experience: "We Shall Remain," reenactments help tell the story of how the Cherokee people were forced from their lands in the southeast. The U.S. government initially promised the Cherokee and other Native American tribes that if they could assimilate into European Americans lifestyles, they would be considered equals. But a new movement in the late 1820s, supported by President Andrew Jackson, promoted removal of Native Americans from the eastern U.S. The Indian Removal Act, passed in 1830, called for the tribes to leave peacefully. Feeling that removal from their own lands was not an option, the vast majority of people stayed. When the deadline to leave passed, federal troops and state militia forcefully assembled the Cherokee people, letting them take nothing but the clothes on their backs, and made them march an 850-mile trek to new lands. Many died on this march, known as the Trail of Tears, which lasted through one of the hardest winters the region had ever experienced. (5:24)
Found by Mrs Jefferies in Trail of Tears
February 19, 2012 at 09:41 PM
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<p>October 25, 2010—Microbes consuming oil from the Gulf of Mexico's BP spill deplete oxygen levels when they die, raising the threat of an expanded "dead zone," which endangers some marine life. Now scientists are using years of dead-zone data to determine whether the dangerous region grew after the spill.</p>
Found by MSaulsberry in Pollution
January 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM
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Visualize and practice multiplying fractions using an area representation. Use this virtual manipulate to graphically demonstrate, explore, and practice multiplying fractions.
The grid shows two fractions multiplied together by showing one fraction in red on the left and another in blue on the bottom of a grid. The area of the overlapping region shown in purple is the product (result of multiplying) the fractions.
There are more instructions to the right of the manipulative.
Found by teresahopson in Decimal and Fraction Virtual Manipulatives
May 15, 2010 at 07:42 PM
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The Ocean is essential to life on Earth. Most of Earth's water is stored in the ocean. Although 40 percent of Earth's population lives within, or near coastal regions- the ocean impacts people everywhere. Without the ocean, our planet would be uninhabitable. This animation helps to convey the importance of Earth's oceanic processes as one component of Earth's interrelated systems. (06:01)
Found by teresahopson in Oceanography
August 24, 2012 at 05:16 PM
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Second in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how our human ancestors spread throughout Africa and then into other regions such as Australia and Europe. How did they reach Australia so early on? What happened when our ancestors encountered Neanderthals? (05:35)
Found by teresahopson in Early Man
April 21, 2012 at 06:36 AM
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Harp Seal
From NationalGeographicVideo, produced by National Geographic
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This short movie clip shows the harp seal native to North Atlantic and Arctic regions. You will learn about its habitat and lifestyle. Professional video footage from National Geographic is set to music. Might be used with a lesson about arctic sea animals or animal adaptations (thick fur and blubber to protect against the harsh, cold water temperatures.) No narration. Run time 01:07.
Found by jammin0 in Seals & Sea Lions
April 14, 2009 at 07:31 PM
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This slide show explores the five themes of geography: location, place, region, human-environment interaction, and movement. (Amateur video with slides of text. No narration.)
Found by teresahopson in Geography Themes
April 7, 2010 at 08:57 PM
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When someone suffers from an internal ailment that cannot be detected from a regular office exam, an MRI may be necessary. The patient lies on a platform that enters the center of the machine. Upon entering the machine, the patient is scanned by one of several magnetic coils that administers a radio frequency pulse targeting the specific region to be examined. This creates a magnetic field that runs down the center of the tube. Learn more about Magnetic Resonance Imaging, also known as M.R.I. in this short, professionally made video. The video uses computer animation to demonstrate the MRI process as a narrator gives explanations. (01:32)
Found by begamatt in Discoveries in Medicine
June 1, 2010 at 09:54 PM
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The Earth has four seasons: summer, fall, winter, and spring, which are caused by the Earth's rotation around the sun and the way the Earth tilts on its axis. Seasons are not the same everywhere. They vary by climate and region. Learn more about the season with this slide show from StudyJams. Vibrant images are set to music while information is written under each photo. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
Found by begamatt in Seasons
May 22, 2011 at 01:06 PM
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The 1966 film version seen here was eventually nominated for an Academy Award two years later in 1968, for Best Short Film, because it was so beautifully done by the director - Canadian naturalist, master canoeist, artist and filmmaker Bill Mason.
This story (both book and film version) has been loved by generations of school children for decades as they learn about the history of the Great Lakes region of North America while they follow the exciting adventures of a brave toy Wooden Indian in his tiny but sturdy Canoe (hand carved by a Native Canadian boy from Nipigon Country). PART 3 of 3
Found by ronna_37 in Short Film
November 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM
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The 1966 film version of Paddle to the Sea, seen here, was eventually nominated for an Academy Award two years later in 1968, for Best Short Film, because it was so beautifully done by the director - Canadian naturalist, master canoeist, artist and filmmaker Bill Mason.
This story (both book and film version) has been loved by generations of school children for decades as they learn about the history of the Great Lakes region of North America while they follow the exciting adventures of a brave toy Wooden Indian in his tiny but sturdy Canoe (hand carved by a Native Canadian boy from Nipigon Country). THIS IS PART 2 of 3
Found by ronna_37 in Short Film
November 17, 2009 at 10:37 PM
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"This unique video, features my arrangement for solo lyre, of the 3400 year old "Hurrian Hymn no.6", which was discovered in Ugarit in Syria in the early 1950..." This 5:42 music video has excellent sound quality and photos from the period and region of the music. The accompanying note is very informative and well-written and takes about as long to read as the music plays. (05:42)
Found by creatorsjoy in Music History
November 22, 2011 at 02:20 AM
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Video discusses how Jackson fought in the Revolutionary War when he was just thirteen, how Jackson led the American army to the most surprising victory in its history in the Battle of New Orleans, how Jackson was the first great champion of the common white man -- but also "owned" over a hundred black Americans; how Jackson dramatically expanded the United States -- by brutally wresting vast regions of the south from Native Americans; how Jackson, in one of the boldest political strokes in history, founded the Democratic Party -- and yet was viewed by his enemies as an American Napoleon. The film concludes with the words of Jackson's first biographer, "Andrew Jackson was a patriot, and a traitor. He was the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. He was the most candid of men, and capable of the profoundest dissimulation. He was a democratic autocrat, an urbane savage, an atrocious saint."
Found by Barb in 7th Andrew Jackson
August 18, 2009 at 06:36 PM
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This video is accompanied by text. "The end of the nineteenth century saw the most contentious and violent labor conflicts in the history of the nation. Between 1881 and 1900, approximately 23,000 strikes occurred, involving over six million workers. Unfortunately, in about half of the strikes the laborers gained nothing, and in the other half they were only able to elicit meager or modest gains. Bloody confrontations wracked the railroad, steel, and mining industries, often requiring intervention with federal troops or local militia.
One of the first great labor conflicts occurred in the early 1870s in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. Conditions in the coal mines were dangerous, with inadequate safety provisions and ventilation. A group of primarily Irish miners in Pennsylvania organized into a union. The members of this union were called the Molly Maguires..."
Found by helpingnorth in Gilded Age
December 29, 2009 at 11:46 AM
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This fast-paced 1:18 long video explains that in 500 B.C., Sirus the Great led the movement to build an empire that led from North Africa to the Black Sea regions and part of Western Asia. This empire was later destroyed and turned into ruins after Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire. Some achievements from the Persian Empire include money, the creation of postal service, and the first charter of human rights. The video has some good images, but it is at best a quick overview to prepare the students for a more in-depth study. (01:17)
Found by freealan in Ancient Persia
February 26, 2012 at 08:30 PM
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