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Social Studies: World History 1500 A.D. to Present

Resource Grade Level Media Type
1900 Air Pollution  

1900 Air Pollution
Examine this graph from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "What's Up with the Weather?" Web site to see dramatic increases in three greenhouse gases over the last two hundred years.

9-12 HTML Document
Antarctica: Sea Ice  

Antarctica: Sea Ice
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses microwave images to reveal how sea ice doubles the size of Antarctica each winter. Rare footage shows how sea ice crushed the famous ship Endurance in 1914.

K-12 QuickTime Video
The Beginnings of the Telescope  

The Beginnings of the Telescope
This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.

6-12 HTML Document
Build a Bridge  

Build a Bridge
Survey potential bridge sites, research bridge design, and select the right bridge for the right location in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 Shockwave 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
Discovering Air  

Discovering Air
Our understanding about the air we breathe has changed dramatically through time. This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site tracks the changing thought on air and the creation of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

6-12 HTML Document
Earthquake Prediction  

Earthquake Prediction
This video segment adapted from NOVA tells the tragic story of two Japanese seismologists who disagreed about the threat of earthquakes in the early twentieth century. Today, seismologists in California offer residents a probability of risk that an earthquake might occur.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Record  

Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Record
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a geologist digs a trench along the San Andreas Fault to reveal three thousand years of earthquake history. Information from the layers of sediment may help geologists to predict earthquakes.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Earthquakes: The Seismograph  

Earthquakes: The Seismograph
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses historical illustrations, photographs, and animations to explain how seismographs work, the difference between P and S waves, and the Richter scale.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Einstein: A Timeline of His Life  

Einstein: A Timeline of His Life
This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site follows Albert Einstein's life, including 1905, his "Miracle Year," during which he developed his Special Theory of Relativity and the equation, E=mc2.

6-12 HTML Document
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
Galileo: Discovering Jupiter's Moons  

Galileo: Discovering Jupiter's Moons
This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo, using his newly developed refracting telescope, observed four of Jupiter's moons, the first astronomical bodies to be discovered since ancient times.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo: His Experiments  

Galileo: His Experiments
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site samples Galileo's experiments with falling objects, projectiles, inclined planes, and pendulums.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Galileo: His Place in Science  

Galileo: His Place in Science
Einstein called Galileo the "father of modern physics." This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site looks at Galileo's quest to understand the mathematics of motion.

6-12 HTML Document
Galileo's Big Mistake  

Galileo's Big Mistake
Scientists don't always get it right. This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at Galileo's failed theory for the motion of the tides.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo's Inclined Plane  

Galileo's Inclined Plane
How did Galileo figure out the mathematics of falling bodies? This video segment adapted from NOVA examines Galileo's work on motion.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo's Telescope  

Galileo's Telescope
The invention of the telescope helped change our understanding of the universe. This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at Galileo's contribution to this technology.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo's Thought Experiment  

Galileo's Thought Experiment
How can Earth move through space without our feeling its motion? This video segment adapted from NOVA answers this question by dramatizing one of Galileo's thought experiments.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo: Sun-Centered System  

Galileo: Sun-Centered System
In the early 1600s, most people believed that the Sun revolved around a stationary Earth. This video segment adapted from NOVA tells how Galileo proved that the Sun, not Earth, is at the center of our universe.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo: Sunspots  

Galileo: Sunspots
This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo used his telescope to carefully observe and study sunspots.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo: Timeline of His Life  

Galileo: Timeline of His Life
This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site turns back the clock to the late 1500's to relive the dramatic life of one of the world's most renowned scientists.

6-12 HTML Document
Genetic Variation  

Genetic Variation
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explores the genetic similarities and differences among organisms.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels  

Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels
Martin Hoffert, professor of physics at New York University, discusses global warming and alternative energies in this interview from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site.

6-12 HTML Document
Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story  

Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story
Examine these graphs from the NOVA/ FRONTLINE Web site to see dramatic increases in the temperature of Earth's surface and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

6-12 HTML Document
Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story  

Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story
Examine graphs from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site to see dramatic changes in the temperature of Earth's surface and in the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

9-12 HTML Document
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
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
More on Galileo's Big Mistake  

More on Galileo's Big Mistake
Even great scientists make mistakes! This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site looks at Galileo's theory of the tides, which, while well thought out, was wrong.

6-12 HTML Document
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
Oil Spill: <em>Exxon Valdez</em>, 1989  

Oil Spill: Exxon Valdez, 1989
This video segment adapted from NOVA follows the clean-up effort after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska. Also featured is a marsh where an oil spill occurred 20 years earlier; analysis suggests that environmental damage may last for decades.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles  

Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Explore this NOVA interactive timeline and discover the many technological innovations in the history of unmanned flight, from hot-air balloons to miniature flying robots.

6-12 HTML Interactive
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
Solar Magnetism  

Solar Magnetism
This video segment adapted from NOVA describes how the Sun's magnetism can have an effect here on Earth, from dramatic auroras to a mini-Ice Age in the 1600s.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Steam Machine  

Steam Machine
Explore NOVA Online's interactive steam engine and discover how this machine can convert heat to mechanical energy.

3-12 Shockwave Interactive
String Theory: A New Picture of Gravity  

String Theory: A New Picture of Gravity
This video segment from NOVA describes the general theory of relativity and the theory of electromagnetism.

6-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: Strings to the Rescue  

String Theory: Strings to the Rescue
This video segment from NOVA discusses the challenge of unifying the force of gravity and the forces described by quantum mechanics into a single theory of unification.

9-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: The Quantum Caf&eacute;  

String Theory: The Quantum Café
This video segment from NOVA relates the rise of subatomic physics in the 1920s and the development of the radical theory of quantum mechanics.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Taking the Earth's Temperature  

Taking the Earth's Temperature
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "What's Up with the Weather?" depicts research efforts to record Earth's past and present temperatures shifts.

9-12 QuickTime Video
What Causes the Gulf Stream?  

What Causes the Gulf Stream?
This video segment adapted from NOVA visualizes how Earth's rotation and uneven heating from the Sun cause prevailing winds and influence ocean surface currents. An animation and infrared satellite image illustrate the shape and direction of the Gulf Stream System in the Atlantic Ocean.

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