This Wide Angle video segment illustrates Islamic and secular elements of life in Turkey, and introduces Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, and his reforms.

Novel representations and diverse perspectives can reveal new insights into complex systems, and can support rich understandings of the world. In this activity, students will identify and analyze the choices artists and scientists make when creating representations of living or non-living natural objects. This process will help students recognize the potential and place for their own articulation of how the world works. After drawing from nature, students will reflect on the process of representing information, then compare their drawings with that of a 16th-century artist. Students will consider what is included and what is excluded, and hypothesize about larger contexts and systems.

Consider the opposing views on the policy implemented at the University of Brasilia in this Wide Angle video.

In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Audrey Hendricks recalls her arrest and jailing at the age of nine for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963.

In this video segment from TV411, figure skaters compute their average daily practice time.

This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics.

In this video segment from Nature, researchers study pandas in an effort to halt their decline in population.

In this video from Wide Angle, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative in the Clinton Administration, discusses her views on economic change in China.

This transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize documents the leadership strategies of March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin.

In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park.

See how Lansing, Michigan inner-city youth become community science experts in energy sustainability and environmental health topics in this student-centric after-school program.

Learn about bees, their habitat and how to interact with a swarm in this Wild TV video segment.

In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about bees and the different techniques for handling them.

In Philip Levine's post-war poem, Belle Isle, 1949, two strangers meet, swim, and part, exploring themes of connection, boundaries, and where we come from. This video segment comes from Poetry Everywhere.

In this video segment from EGG: the arts show, Sapelo Island resident, Ben Hall, guides viewers through an introduction to Sapelo Island which is inhabited by the descendants of African slaves.

This Cyberchase video segment features Bianca, who must figure out the fastest route to a movie premiere.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists discuss their attempts to grow human body parts in a jar.

Throughout the day, your nervous system monitors and makes endless adjustments to your body's basic systems -- all to keep you alive. This interactive feature illustrates the complexity of such a task.

This excerpt from WGBH's Evening Compass news program summarizes events of the first year of the 1974 Boston school desegregation plan.

Learn about the achievements and national problems of the African nation of Botswana in this video segment from Wide Angle.