Ancestors Talk Through Drums

In this segment from EGG:the arts show, meet Camilo Gaetan who is becoming a master drummer.

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Backyard Bugs

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

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Bee-ing in a Swarm

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

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Ben Hall of Sapelo Island

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.

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The Book

In this video segment from Jakers! Abuelita describes her life as a migrant worker.

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Busterfield Library A-Z

This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show.

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Cats

In this video segment from Nature, learn about cats and consider the possibility that the cat may become the number one choice of pet owners.  

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Chalk Sculpture

In this video segment from Art in the 21st Century: Paradox, two artists create a public art piece using giant pieces of chalk.

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City Horses Part I

Carolyne DeGrammont of the Cedar Lane Stables in Queens, NY talks about why she enjoys horses in this video segment from Wild TV.

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City Parrots

In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about wild parrots that breed and nest in Brooklyn.

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City Pigeons

Learn about the history of pigeons in this video segment from WILD TV.  

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The Civil War Era: Words Like Freedom

Dhana Bradley Donaldson and Priscilla Hancock Cooper present a “poetic concert” featuring “Ain’t I a Woman?” the famous speech made by abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth; “Alabama Centennial,” a poem about the Civil Rights movement by Naomi Long Madgett; and Nikki Giovanni’s self-love poem, “Ego Tripping.”

Cloud

A round up of wild horses proves too strenuous for a young colt in this video segment from Nature.

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Cloud - Age Four

In this video segment from Nature, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild.

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Cloud - Age Two

In this video segment from Nature, Cloud, a two-year-old horse, interacts with his family in the wild.

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Cloud - Foal

In this video segment from Nature, experience life in the wild for Cloud, a newborn colt.

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Colonial House

In this segment from Colonial House, Colonists and the Passamaquoddy people encounter each other for the first time.

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Colony Collapse Disorder

In this video segment from Nature, scientists work to discover why bees are disappearing.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem

Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.

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A Decision is Made

In this video segment from Africa, Flora explains why she is content to return to the bush.

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Desert Elephants

In this video from Nature, observe elephants trek across the desert to an isolated waterhole.

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Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact?

The disappearance of bees will have tremendous impact upon the way we live according to scientists in this segment from Nature. 

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DNA Barcode Library

Botanists and biologists work to create a DNA barcode library for plant life in this video segment from New York Voices.

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Documenting Change

In this video segment from New York Voices, botanists study plants to inform agriculture and climate change.

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The Double V

In this video segment from Soldiers Without Swords, learn about the "Double V" campaign launched by the black press during World War II to empower African-Americans at home and abroad on the war front.

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Everglades

In this video segment from WILD TV, a scientist in the Florida Everglades talks about her research on the pig frog.

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Explorers of Yesterday and Today

Explorer Tom Murphy braves a ground blizzard during a winter night in Yellowstone as seen in this video segment from Nature.

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A Fellow Named Sig

This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated limerick, which exemplifies the kind of wordplay that prepares children for early reading and spelling.

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Fire Cloud

Firefighters fight a raging fire on a wild horse range in Montana in this video segment from Nature.

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Flora's Background and Motivation

Learn about what motivated Flora, a woman from the city, to move to the African bush in this video segment from Africa.

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Forest Elephants

Although the rainforest is a demanding environment for a cameraman, photographer Martyn Colbeck manages to capture a glimpse of forest elephants in the Congo in this video segment from Nature.

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Fred Says: rocket

This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word "rocket" part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.

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Gawain’s Word: box

This video segment from Between the Lions features the Knights of Blending Fields demonstrating an important element of phonemic awareness: blending word parts to make a word.

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Getting an Education

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his time to earn a Ph.D.

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Grassland Elephants

This video segment from Nature features a greeting ceremony by grassland elephants in Kenya.

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Gullah Music

In this video segment from EGG: the arts show, visit Sapelo Island, an island in Georgia inhabited by descendants of African slaves.

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A Hard and Lonely Life

In this video segment from Africa, Flora describes her life in the African bush of Tanzania.

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Hard "c" Words

This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter "c" makes.

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The Healing Totem

In this video segment from New York Voices, Native-Americans make a gift of a commemorative totem pole for the September 11th tragedy.

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Heroes

This video segment from Jakers! is about Ping, a young hero who proves himself worthy to be the emperor of China.

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Historic Relationships Between Dogs and Humans

In this video segment from Nature, learn the history of the world’s first domesticated animal, the dog.

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Hop ‘Til You Drop

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer—"Hop 'Til You Drop"—to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.

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The Injured Otter

A young, injured otter must find his way during the winter in Yellowstone National Park in this segment from Nature.

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The Invasion of the Modern World

Loggers steal trees from the rainforest of Cameroon, one of Earth’s oldest living ecosystems, in this video segment from Africa.

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Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad?

In this segment from History Detectives, Anne Zorela, a map collector, believes she's found a map that outlines the routes of the Underground Railroad.

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Jamaica Bay Introduction

In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about the field study of scientists observing raccoons and terrapins in Jamaica Bay.

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Jarrod Studies Birds

In this video segment from WILD TV, an ornithologist describes his job.

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The Journey of the Jewish Americans

This segment from The Jewish Americans shows how in the 19th century Jews and other groups were sometimes not welcomed when they immigrated to the United States.

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A Language Immersion Story

This video from Media That Matters: Immersion tells the fictional story of Moises, a young immigrant to the United States with limited English, as he struggles to do well in school.

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Lions Laughing

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a line of laughing Lions to help build vocabulary and illustrate the meaning of words that typically challenge young children.

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Little Big Mouse

This video segment from Between the Lions features Aesop's fable, The Lion and the Mouse, and illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud.

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A Look at a Japanese Classroom

In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about education in Japan by watching Ken, a first-grader, attend school.

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A Look at a Kenyan Classroom

In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about education in Kenya by visiting the first-grade classroom of Joab, a young Kenyan boy.

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Look It Up

This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.

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Manatees

In this video segment from Nature, a veterinarian talks about the Florida manatee, an endangered species.

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Maui and the Creation of the Islands

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, portrays a dramatic telling of the story, "Maui and the Creation of the Islands."

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Maya Lin

This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.

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Nanavi

In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about Nanavi's home and school in Benin, Africa.

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Nanavi 2003

In this video segment from Wide Angle, meet Nanavi, a young girl in Benin who has a rare opportunity to go to school.

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Neeraj

In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about Neeraj's home and school in India. 

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The New Negro

Learn about some of the people who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.

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New Orleans Jazz

In this video segment from Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis and his band play “St. Louis Blues.”

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Oh, Yes, It Can!

This video segment from Between the Lions features an African tale full of surprises and new words. Master storyteller Karen Kandel models the power of storytelling, the mesmerizing effects of language, and how stories can help build vocabulary and background knowledge.

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Oral Traditions

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, illustrates how Native people preserve history and tradition through art, music, and dance.

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An Ornithologist’s Job

In this video segment from WILD TV, an ornithologist describes his job.

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Pesky Critters

In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about how urban development has affected the habitats of alligators.

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Pet Advice

Learn what pet owners can do to better care for their pets in this video segment from WILD TV .

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Pourquoi Stories

This video segment from Jakers! features a storyteller who tells a Pourquoi story about Anansi, the spider, a popular character in African folklore.

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Pulaski, Wisconsin - Polka Town, U.S.A.

The town of Pulaski, Wisconsin claims to have more musicians per capita than anywhere in the U.S. Learn about Pulaski, a town that thrives on polka music in this video segment from EGG: the arts show.

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Puppy Walker

This Zoom video segment features Brett, a boy who trains puppies to be seeing-eye dogs.

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Pushmobile

In this video from Jakers!, Grandpa Max describes growing up in Brooklyn.

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The Raven Story

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, portrays one telling of the story, "How Raven Gave Light to the World."

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Read the Signs

In this video segment from Between the Lions, Sloppy Pop's song "Read the Signs" spotlights the letters and words we see on signs every day, encouraging children to be aware of print in their environment.

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Rocket-Doodle-Doo

This video segment from Between the Lions presents an animated rhyming song to help tune the listener’s ear to language sounds, and it incorporates strategies for building vocabulary and fluency in reading.

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Santiago and Morris

In this video segment from WILD TV, Santiago, a troubled youth, and Linda, a motor vehicle accident victim, discuss how Morris, a therapy dog, has helped them.

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Sapelo Island Culture

In this video segment from EGG: the arts show, learn about the Gullah/Geechee culture of Sapelo Island.

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Seven Selfish Shellfish

This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister—a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words.

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Shulayen

In this video segment from Jakers!, a storyteller tells the story of Shulayen, a girl with “stars” on her face.

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The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

Through flashback, L.D.Cox tells how he survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II in this segment from History Detectives.

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Social and Cultural Perspectives of Dogs

In this video segment from Nature, learn about the role of dogs in the lives of humans.

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Soft "c" Words

This video segment from Between the Lions focuses on letter knowledge, showing several words that begin with the letter “c" and, in these examples, the /s/ sound that it makes.

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Taking a Stand

The Baka are a semi-nomadic forest people who live in the republic of Cameroon in central Africa. In this video from Africa, the Baka men meet with a government official for help to protect their forest.

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The Three Little Pigs

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a classic children’s book to illustrate reading aloud, one of the most important practices in developing children’s literacy skills.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster

In this segment from The Jewish Americans learn how the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire led to labor reform and workers' rights.

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Unforgettable Elephants

A family of elephants rescues a baby elephant kidnapped by a rival elephant family in this video segment from Nature.

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The Voyage of Kealoha

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, tells the Kealoha story, "Hawai‘i's Native Seamen and Their Whaling Legacy," through a dramatization and source images.

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The Voyage of Zheng He I

This video segment adapted from 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America? introduces the theory that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus.

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The Voyage of Zheng He II

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.

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What Can You Do?

In this video segment from WILD TV , learn about a woman who photographs dogs in an animal shelter in an effort to find new homes for the homeless pets.

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What’s Your Name? (u)

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.

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

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.

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Who, What, Where

In this video segment from Jakers!, a storyteller tells a story in the form of a rap. He incorporates the story elements of who, what and where.

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Who, What, Where

A storyteller tells a story in the form of a rap and incorporates the story elements of who, what and where in this video segment from Jakers!

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Who Are the Baka?

This video segment from Africa features the Baka, people who live in the rainforest in southeast Cameroon.

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Wolong's Pandas

Wild pandas are treated at the Wolong Conservation Center in this video segment from Nature.

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Wonderful Worms

This video segment from WILD TV features a teenager who is fascinated with worms and talks about their value to the environment.

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The Wreck of the Corinthian

This interactive activity, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, tells the story of the wreck and towing of the whaling ship Corinthian using three narrative sources.