African/African-American Culture: Anansi's Rescue from the River

In this video, storyteller Nana Yaa Asantewaa performs the story “Anansi’s Rescue from the River.” The Anansi tales are told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, West Africa, and have been passed down through the generations by oral tradition.

African/African-American Culture: E Sin Mi D'Africa

Bi-Okoto Drum and Dance Theatre performs a welcome dance that combines movements from several traditional dances of the Yoruba people of Nigeria.

African/African-American Culture: Gue Pelou

Moha Dosso, a professional stilt dancer and musician from the Mahouka tribe in Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa, performs the Gue Pelou dance from the Ivory Coast.The Gue Pelou is a sacred rite used to honor and communicate with the spirit world and can be danced to protect the village.

African/African-American Culture: Hambone

Folk singer John McCutcheon demonstrates the hambone, an African-American rhythm technique that uses the whole body as a “drum set” to produce different sounds.

African/African-American Culture: Kou Kou

Moha Dosso, a professional stilt dancer and musician from the Mahouka tribe in Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa, performs the Kou-Kou dance from the Ivory Coast.Kou-Kou is a communal recreational dance, often used to teach kids how to dance. Moha Dosso performs with the Kyene Drum Ensemble of Louisville, Ky.

African/African-American Culture: Manjani

The Imani Dance and Drum Company of Louisville, Ky., perform the Manjani, a West African dance that celebrates an important event such as the harvest (as in this performance), a wedding, or a naming ceremony.

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African/African-American Culture: Music of Mali

Yaya Diallo, a musician from Mali, talks about how he came to live in Kentucky, the healing properties of music, and his interest in new forms of African music that com¬bine the music of the elders with that of young people.

African/African-American Culture: Plantation Dance/Ring Shout

The Plantation Dance/Ring Shout represents a style of dance and music found in African slave communities on plantations in the southern United States, Caribbean Islands, and other locations.

African/African-American Culture: Sohu

Bi-Okoto Drum and Dance Theatre performs Sohu, a ritual cleansing dance from Togo.

African/African-American Culture: Zudio

This African-American game song is sung to movements described in the lyrics and demonstrated by the children in the audience. Many African-American music and dance styles emphasize rhythm and self-expression, both evident here.

After Love, by Maxime Kumin

In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Maxine Kumin reads her poem, “After Love”, which describes a quiet moment after love-making shared by two people in a long marriage.

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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps, by Galway Kinnell

In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Galway Kinnell reads his poem, “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps”, which depicts the magic of love and family connection.

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After Slavery

In this video segment from Finding Your Roots, Kevin Bacon learns how his ancestor dedicated her life to educating freed slaves.

Aging Diamonds?

In this video from Nature, geological detectives use ancient diamonds to learn more about Earth's inner layers.

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Agony of Defeat

Students are asked to explain how forces and motion affect the skier in the film.

Agricultural Runoff and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

This video segment adapted from Big River: A King Corn Companion shows how agricultural chemicals from the Midwest that travel downstream in water runoff create a vast marine "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Agricultural Technology Student: Farming & GPS/GIS

Learn how agricultural technology is changing farming, and one student's life, in this video adapted from Pathways to Technology.

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Agricultural Technology Student: Water Management & GPS/GIS

See one adult student's experience attending community college, studying agricultural technology, and discovering career opportunities, in this video adapted from Pathways to Technology.

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Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame

In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances.

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Air Bag Design

Using automobile crash test footage, this video segment adapted from NOVA shows some of the challenges in designing the air bag.

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Airborne Wind Energy

The strongest and most consistent winds are found in the jet stream as high as 30,000 feet above the earth. In this video from QUEST produced by KQED, learn about the benefits and challenges of wind energy.

Air Power: Experimenting with Balloons

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members experiment with the amount of air expelled first from a balloon, then through a straw attached to it, and see how both affect a balloon's behavior.

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Air Power: Making a Hovercraft

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table.

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Alaska Native Pilots

In this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather.

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Alaska Native Teens Help Researchers

In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native students contribute to research on how their environment is changing as a result of global warming.

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Alaska Tsunami

In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964.

Albino Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest

Pale ghosts that hide amid their gigantic siblings, only a few dozen albino redwood trees are known to exist. In this video from QUEST produced by KQED, track down these elusive phantoms of the forest.

Alexander Hamilton: Early Influences

In this video segment from American Experience, learn about how the events of Hamilton's youth in the West Indies influenced the direction of his life.

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All-Female Enterprise

This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business.

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All Dressed Up

All Dressed Up shows a dog being groomed and asks the student to write a story about what the dog is thinking.

All for One

In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the influence of the communist values of organization, discipline and collectivism on North Korean society.

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All in the Family

This video from the series Faces of America details the process of documenting family history and tracing lineage back through maternal and paternal lines.

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Allison Bolinger: Spacewalk Flight Controller and Trainer

In this video from Design Squad Nation, NASA spacewalk flight controller and trainer Allison Bolinger teaches astronauts how to work outside their spacecraft.

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All That Glitters is Not Gold

Learn about the value of different forms of currency in this Cyberchase video segment.

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All Things Lincoln

This video segment, excerpted from the PBS series Looking for Lincoln, explores the ongoing cultural fascination with physical artifacts of Abraham Lincoln’s life.

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Alternative Energy

Students are asked to explain what needs to be considered if alternative energy sources are to be used.

Altruism

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, explore the subject of altruism, the idea of people doing good things without expecting anything in return.

Alzheimer's: Is the Cure in the Genes?

An estimated 15 million Americans will suffer from Alzheimer’s by 2050. QUEST visits with researchers at San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes who have found that a gene may hold the key to a cure for this debilitating affliction.

Alzheimer's Disease

This video segment from the Secret of Life School Video: "Genetic Medicine: Tinkering with Our Genes" explores the potential for gene therapy to cure diseases like Alzheimer's.

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Amateur Astronomers

In this video from QUEST produced by KQED, find out why some of the most passionate astronomers don't ever need to leave their own backyards.

Amazing Chase

This video from WOUB Athens, presented as a parody of a popular TV network reality show, will help high school students review and prepare for the Ohio Graduation Test in Mathematics.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: brave

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives brave, braver, and bravest.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: good

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives good, better, and best.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: noisy

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives noisy, noisier, noisiest.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: tasty

In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives tasty, tastier, tastiest.

Amazon Rainforest

This video segment from the Race to Save the Planet teaching module "Saving the Diversity of Life" describes the ecological value of tropical rainforests and explores some of the causes of their destruction.

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American Buddhism

In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about two different groups of Buddhist practitioners in the West.

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American Flag

This Building Block video shows a close-up of an American flag billowing in breeze. The camera pulls out to reveal the shadow of an eagle statue in the foreground.

American Flags

This Building Block video features nine American flags on poles billowing in a strong wind.

American Muslim Women

Learn about the perceptions and challenges of being a Muslim woman in the U.S., in this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.