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Social Studies: Anthropology/Cultures

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Anatomy of a Firework  

Anatomy of a Firework
There's more to a fireworks display than meets the eye. This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site looks at the technology behind each burst of light.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Build a Family Tree  

Build a Family Tree
Both sexes can use this interactive feature that lets you use DNA information from the Y chromosome to complete a male family tree. From the NOVA: "Lost Tribes of Israel" Web site.

9-12 Shockwave Interactive
Construct an Aqueduct  

Construct an Aqueduct
Think like an engineer and build an aqueduct in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

3-12 Shockwave Interactive
Energy Transfer in a Trebuchet  

Energy Transfer in a Trebuchet
On NOVA, a team of carpenters, timber framers, engineers, and historians recreate a medieval throwing machine called a trebuchet. This adapted video segment explores how understanding energy transfer informs their design.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Finding Disease Genes  

Finding Disease Genes
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the process of finding genes that cause disease.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Finding Lucy  

Finding Lucy
This Evolution video segment depicts the landmark hominid fossil finds by Don Johanson and his team in Ethiopia.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Fireworks! Lifting Charge  

Fireworks! Lifting Charge
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how pyrotechnicians use common compounds to blast fireworks into the sky and give them shape.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Fireworks! Making Color  

Fireworks! Making Color
What gives a fireworks display its brilliant blue, green, and red colors? Learn how pyrotechnicians give fireworks color in this video segment adapted from NOVA.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Getting an Education  

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.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: The Developing World  

Global Warming: The Developing World
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at the future of global warming as developing nations, including India and China, increase their need for energy.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Grass Bridge  

Grass Bridge
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, watch residents of the Peruvian Andes build a suspension bridge made entirely of grass.

3-12 QuickTime Video
<i>Homo Sapiens</i> Versus Neanderthals  

Homo Sapiens Versus Neanderthals
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores reasons why Homo sapiens had an advantage over Neanderthals in the pursuit of territory and natural resources.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Igloo 101  

Igloo 101
Learn what it takes to build an igloo—from the best kind of snow to the most effective tools—and other little-known facts about these traditional Canadian Inuit structures in this interactive activity from NOVA.

3-8 Flash Interactive
Laetoli Footprints  

Laetoli Footprints
This Evolution video segment describes how the famous track fossils known as the Laetoli footprints might have been formed and what they can reveal about the creatures who left them.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Lever an Obelisk  

Lever an Obelisk
Investigate the mechanical advantage of the lever in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 Shockwave Interactive
Levers: Raising the Moai on Easter Island  

Levers: Raising the Moai on Easter Island
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a team of archaeologists and engineers explores different uses of the lever by recreating the engineering feats of the ancient Easter Island peoples.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Lightning!  

Lightning!
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the mysterious force of lightning.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Moriussaq: A Case Study in Hearing Loss  

Moriussaq: A Case Study in Hearing Loss
This video segment follows neurophysiologist Allen Counter as he studies an epidemic of hearing loss in Moriussaq, Greenland, one of the quietest places on Earth. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Hearing."

6-8 QuickTime Video
Moving to Oak Park  

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.

6-12 QuickTime Video
The Myth of Pocahontas  

The Myth of Pocahontas
This video segment adapted from NOVA introduces the popular story of how Native American princess Pocahontas rescued colonist John Smith.

5-12 QuickTime Video
Name That Shell  

Name That Shell
The way a firework shell is designed and assembled determines the shape and color of a firework display. Choose a video clip and try to identify each firework variety in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Nature's Pharmacy  

Nature's Pharmacy
In this interactive activity from NOVA, learn about chemicals in nature that are used in medicine.

3-12 Flash Interactive
Plate Tectonics: The Hawaiian Archipelago  

Plate Tectonics: The Hawaiian Archipelago
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses animation to show the relationship between the movement of a tectonic plate and whether volcanoes on the Hawaiian Islands are active or dormant.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Pocahontas Revealed  

Pocahontas Revealed
In this video adapted from NOVA, examine a historical version of the story of Pocahontas and John Smith.

5-12 QuickTime Video
Pyrotechnically Speaking  

Pyrotechnically Speaking
Meet chemistry professor Dr. John Conkling in this interview from the NOVA Web site and learn why fireworks are his passion.

6-12 HTML Document
Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering Puzzle  

Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering Puzzle
This video segment adapted from NOVA follows two teams as they each test a different engineering design in an effort to explain how ancient Egyptians raised a giant stone obelisk.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Seahorse Basics  

Seahorse Basics
This diagram from the NOVA: "Kingdom of the Seahorse" Web site reveals some of the more remarkable traits of this enigmatic creature.

3-8 HTML Document
Shipwrecks Reveal Ocean Currents  

Shipwrecks Reveal Ocean Currents
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a detailed map showing the trajectories of abandoned ships from the late 1800's is used to reveal the routes of surface currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Animations illustrate the role played by ocean currents in the colonization of North America.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Should We Grow GM Crops?  

Should We Grow GM Crops?
Learn the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) crops, and cast your vote on whether they should be grown. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site.

9-12 HTML Interactive
Snapshot of U.S. Energy Use  

Snapshot of U.S. Energy Use
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at American energy consumption and the resulting production of greenhouse gases.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Sound Waves Underwater: The Loch Ness Monster  

Sound Waves Underwater: The Loch Ness Monster
This video segment, adapted from NOVA follows a team of enthusiasts and scientists who attempt to find a trace of the Loch Ness monster by scouring the lake with sonar.

6-12 QuickTime Video
When Did the First Americans Arrive?  

When Did the First Americans Arrive?
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, recent archeological evidence leads scientists to revise existing theories about human migrations into the Americas around the time of the last ice age.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Writings of the Ancient Maya  

Writings of the Ancient Maya
In this media-rich activity designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore what we can learn about the ancient Maya civilization from their writings, including how the destruction of many of the documents impacts our understanding of their civilization.

5-12 Student Activity