Browse results: Social Studies
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Devotion to Kali In this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, learn about Goddess Kali, considered by some Hindus to be the “prime cosmic energy.” Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Digging Out of DebtA college student learns a valuable lesson about excessive credit card debt, and how to deal with the problem, in this video segment from Your Life, Your Money. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Diverse Turkish WomenThis Wide Angle video segment compares two families in Turkey– one more religious, and one more secular. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
DiwaliSee how Hindus celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights, in this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Do It YourselfA young entrepreneur discusses the responsibilities of managing business income and expenses in this video segment from Your Life, Your Money. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Drawing the lines: Parties fight for redistricting power
In this video adapted from Need to Know, students learn about redistricting and the impact it has on elections, and democracy, in America.
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9-12 |
Video |
Dutch West India Company (1621)This segment from Dutch New York describes the formation of the Dutch West India Company, which established some of the earliest settlements in North America.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
6-12 |
Video |
Early America: Dr. Thomas WalkerIn this video segment from the KET Kentucky Life series, members of the Bell County Historical Society celebrate Bell County as the “Gateway to the American West” and discuss early explorer Dr. Thomas Walker. By reviewing Walker’s journal, historians have been able to document the settlement of Kentucky. |
6-12 |
Video |
Earth as a SystemThis visualization adapted from NASA maps progressive global changes onto a rotating globe. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are shown to be dynamic and interconnected. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Easter East and WestLearn about Easter, Christianity’s most important festival, in this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Economic BoomIn this Wide Angle video, learn about the economic boom that has transformed Ireland into a prosperous nation. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The Effects of the Columbian ExchangeThis resource featuring video segments adapted from Chronoscope: Exploring 1492: “Columbian Exchange” describes the movement of plants, animals, and disease that characterized the Columbian Exchange and explains how this changed the world. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |
Eid al-FitrIn this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn how Muslims in America celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the “Feast of Breaking the Fast.” |
5-12 |
Video |
Eliza Law Custis Lap Desk, ca. 1795 In this video from Antiques Roadshow, C. Wesley Cowan, a decorative arts appraiser, examines a lady's lap desk given as a gift to Eliza Parke Custis, the granddaughter of Martha Washington, by the Marquis de Lafayette. Accessibility features: Transcript |
8-12 |
Video |
EmpowermentThis video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that presence of women at peace talks is essential.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
English Ships (1664) This segment from Dutch New York describes how, in 1664, the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam became the English colony of New York. Accessibility features: Transcript |
4-12 |
Video |
Environmentalist Bill McKibben, 1990In this 1990 archival news footage from Cambridge Community Television, environmentalist Bill McKibben speaks about the possible effects of climate change at an Earth Day celebration in Cambridge, MA. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste LandfillThis video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism” talks about the early days of the environmental justice movement and how the health of minority communities can be compromised by the disproportionate numbers of hazardous waste facilities located there. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Environmental Justice in DallasFollow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
A New World Order This video from Women, War & Peace explains how women and their dependents are most affected by the changed nature of warfare since the end of the Cold War.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
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