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Wide Angle: Window into Global History

RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
All-Female Enterprise This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business.	9-12	Video
Changes in Turkey In this Wide Angle video, learn how the owner of a clothing manufacturer that creates conservative fashions for Turkish women has balanced his devout faith and commerce.	9-12	Video
The Coffee Crisis This video from Wide Angle presents the efforts taken by the Ethiopian government to mitigate the impact of the 2008 global economic collapse, by calling upon the fledgling Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) to start trading coffee—the nation’s primary cash crop—before it is prepared to do so.	9-12	Video
Farm and City This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.	9-12	Video
Farmer's Dilemma In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the new challenges the farmers of Ireland are facing amidst the country’s economic boom.	9-12	Video
Farmers in Peril In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.	9-12	Video
Foot and Mouth In this Wide Angle video, learn about the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Botswana.	9-12	Video
Industry and Islam This Wide Angle video segment explores economic and religious development in Kayseri, a city in central Turkey.	9-12	Video
Life & Debt The daily struggle of an Indian woman left widowed by her husband’s suicide is the focus of this Wide Angle video.	9-12	Video
The Moving Parts of a Market This video adapted from Wide Angle: "The Market Maker" examines market reformers’ successful efforts to bring a modern commodity exchange to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, and the obstacles faced in gaining wider acceptance throughout the country.	9-12	Video
Next Steps While the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) celebrate success, they still face massive challenges bringing the ECX to Ethiopia’s millions of poor subsistence farmers in this video from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
Night Transport This video from Wide Angle looks at transportation needs and services provided for the workers of India’s outsourcing industry.	9-12	Video
Pickle Business Widows from the village of Tamra in the Galilee manage all of the aspects of their small business in this video segment from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
Trading Up: Bringing Ethiopia’s Economy Into The 21st Century In this video from Wide Angle Ethiopian reformers create a new commodities exchange to modernize traditional approaches to trade.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Why Trade Matters An introduction to the challenges faced by the developing Ethiopian economy and the tragic consequences of its collapse in 1984, excerpted from Wide Angle: "The Market Maker."	9-12	Video
Widows in Israel In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.	9-12	Video
Winning the Farmers' Trust This video from Wide Angle follows Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) market reformers as they attempt to win sesame farmers’ trust and get them to deposit their crops in ECX warehouses.	9-12	Video
Women Wanting to Work Examples from India and Israel frame the study of women negotiating entry into the economic arena. (India, Israel)	9-12	Lesson Plan