U.S. History Pre-1800 to Present
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Avalanche TownThe impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate ChangeThis video segment adapted from NOVA explains the difference between weather and climate and features groundbreaking analysis revealing that Earth's climate has changed much faster than previously believed. |
6-12 |
Video |
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 |
The Grand Canyon: Conservation and DevelopmentThis video segment adapted from NOVA explores the effects of the Glen Canyon Dam on the beaches, wildlife, and vegetation of the Colorado River. |
3-12 |
Video |
The Great Flood of 1993In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a meteorologist explains how an unusual weather pattern led to one of the most devastating floods of this century. |
6-12 |
Video |
How Do You Get to the Moon?This video, adapted from NOVA, showcases the competing engineering plans designed for landing a person on the Moon for the first time. |
6-12 |
Video |
Making Cortisone From Plants This video segment adapted from NOVA is a dramatized story of chemist Percy Julian’s work to synthesize cortisone. Find out how a biological process, not a chemical one, proved the key to producing cortisone in bulk.
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6-12 |
Video |
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 Myth of PocahontasThis video segment adapted from NOVA introduces the popular story of how Native American princess Pocahontas rescued colonist John Smith. |
5-12 |
Video |
Organic Farming: Conserving TopsoilAgainst the backdrop of the devastating 1930's Dust Bowl, this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles an organic farmer and the techniques he uses to conserve topsoil. |
3-12 |
Video |
Pocahontas RevealedIn this video adapted from NOVA, examine a historical version of the story of Pocahontas and John Smith. |
5-12 |
Video |
The Story of PocahontasIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore what may have happened when Pocahontas and John Smith met by comparing popular and historical versions of the famous story. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
String Theory: Gravity - The Odd Man OutThis video segment from NOVA describes the discovery in the 1930s of two forces in addition to electromagnetism: the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. |
9-12 |
Video |
Synthesizing a Steroid This video segment, adapted from NOVA, tells the story of chemist Percy Julian's quest to make progesterone from a plant steroid, an important medical advancement of the 1940s. |
9-12 |
Video |
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