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VITAL High School Core Curriculum
Social Studies
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The 2008 Wall Street BailoutThis video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" traces the unprecedented decisions made by the U.S. government to intervene in the financial crisis of 2008. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Bhopal, 25 Years LaterThis audio segment from PRI's The World Science Podcast revisits a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, where a 1984 gas leak caused as many as 8,000 deaths. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Audio |
Bhopal’s Unlikely Legacy This audio segment from PRI's The World Science Podcast explores how the 1984 gas leak in a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India has increased public awareness about toxic threats, and has been a catalyst for new legislation here in the United States. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Audio |
The Causes of the 2008 Financial CrisisThis video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" explores the changes in the U. S. financial market that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Creativity in Chinese EducationIn this audio segment from PRI's The World Science Podcast we look at the Chinese education system which has long favored a culture of rote memorization over creativity and independent thinking. China needs a new generation of critical thinkers, but is the Communist Party truly ready for that? Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Audio |
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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6-12 |
Video |
How to Prevent Future BhopalsHenrik Selin, a professor of international relations at Boston University and author of the forthcoming book Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals, assesses the risk of future disasters like the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal India, in this audio segment from PRI's The World Science Podcast. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Audio |
The Impact of DeportationIn this video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Lost in Detention," an immigrant family with American-born children copes with the aftermath of the mother's deportation to Mexico because she lacked legal status. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Moving to Oak Park This video segment, adapted from NOVA, shows the racial violence sparked when the African American chemist Percy Julian and his family moved into an exclusive
Chicago suburb in 1950.
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6-12 |
Video |
The Murder of Emmett TillThis video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy whose brutal murder helped spark the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
The Oil Crisis, 1979Drivers wait in long lines at gas stations because of shortages resulting from the oil crisis in this 1979 television news footage from the Northeast Historic Film. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Reaction to the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968In this April 1968 archival news footage from the Boston Public Library, citizens at a public rally in Boston, Massachusetts, respond to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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The Student LeaderThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" profiles one of the African American student leaders who employed nonviolent direct action in the early 1960s to challenge illegal racial segregation both on her own college campus and nationally. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
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