This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, tells the Kealoha story, Hawaiď's Native Seamen and Their Whaling Legacy, through a dramatization and source images.
This video segment adapted from 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America? introduces the theory that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus.
In this video segment adapted from 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America?, learn more about the theory that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus.
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Washington Booker recalls being arrested and jailed for participating in the Children's Crusade of 1963.
In this video from WVIZ Cleveland, learn about weather phenomena and how to create and analyze weather maps.
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter u makes and to boost phonemic awareness--an understanding of the sounds within words.
Professor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.
This video segment from Africa features the Baka, people who live in the rainforest in southeast Cameroon.
Students will watch a video of a storyteller coming up with a rap that tells a story. They will identify story elements (who, what, and where), and record significant details. The next lesson plan ,Using Story Elements to Write a Rap, has students creating their own rap with the story elements.
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
Learn about how wild parakeets have adapted to city life in this WILD TV video segment.
In this 1998 FRONTLINE interview, Harvard sociologist Dr. William Julius Wilson explains why, despite an overall increase in the standard of living among African Americans, a segment of the population is falling farther and farther behind.
In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about the representation of women in Rwanda's parliament.
This video segment from WILD TV features a teenager who is fascinated with worms and talks about their value to the environment.
In this video segment from Wide Angle, Mary, a college educated Zimbabwean migrant, describes her life and work in Botswana.
In this segment from Nature, Scientists travel to the top of Mount Kilauea to collect molten lava samples for testing.
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, hear a young double bassist from Hawaii play a soulful contemporary piece.
In this segment from Curious, scientists conduct an experiment to learn how different areas of the brain are stimulated when making moral decisions.
Explore themes of identity, race, and gender as contemporary poet Lucille Clifton reads her poem, "Won't you celebrate with me" in this video segment from Poetry Everywhere.