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Act of Duty
PBS 45 & 49's Act of Duty talks with more than a dozen northeast Ohio men and women who share their first-hand experience of battle and how it has shaped their lives. This enlightening look into the lives of U.S. veterans is shared against a backdrop of footage featuring scenes of war, airplanes, naval vessels, veterans' cemeteries and newspaper headlines.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
With an emphasis on "doing" statistics, this series goes on location to help uncover statistical solutions to the puzzles of everyday life. Learn how data collection and manipulation -- paired with intelligent judgement and common sense -- can lead to more informed decision-making.
Ama-Zone! The Rain Forest Project
Are you ready for an adventure in the jungle? Are you tingling all over when you think about looking at pictures of snakes, spiders and other "yucky" things? Well, step into the Ama-Zone! Get yourself and your students ready for an exciting trip through the jungle.
Antarctica: 90 Degrees South
This PBS 45 & 49 series goes south -- so far south that it's almost north! -- to discover the little-understood continent of Antarctica. Students will explore its biological diversity, the geology, the geography and the weather, and debate the necessity of balance between the desire for progress and the need for preservation of this important continent.
Between the Lions
The series is named for a family of lions -- Theo, Cleo, Lionel and Leona -- that runs a library like no other. The doors "between the lions" swing open to reveal a magical place where characters pop off the pages of books, vowels sing and words take on a life of their own. Innovative puppetry, animation, live action and music are combined to achieve the educational mission of helping young children learn to read.
A Biography of America
A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative. Prominent historians -- Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Douglas Brinkley and Virginia Scharff -- present America's story as something that is best understood from a variety of perspectives. Thought-provoking debates and lectures encourage critical analysis of the forces that have shaped America. First-person narratives, photos, film footage and documents reveal the human side of American history -- how historical figures affected events and the impact of these events on citizens' lives.
Colonial Williamsburg: Live Electronic Field Trips
Through technology, Colonial Williamsburg brings together students from every corner of America for unforgettable history lessons. Actors portraying historical figures interact with registered classrooms during the live teleconferences.
Democracy and Citizenship: The Principles of Freedom
Throughout American history, the principles of freedom have served as the foundation for our three branches of government -- executive, legislative and judicial -- at the local, state and national levels. They have framed the philosophical tenets of our society and shaped the civil rights debate on a worldwide scale, including foreign policy. Join government leaders and historians as they discuss the parallels between the principles of freedom during the birth of our nation and the principles of freedom today.
Democracy and Citizenship: The 250th Celebration of Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz (personal representative of President Carter to the Middle East) and renowned architectural historian and Yale professor Vincent J. Scully answer questions from students about the responsibilities of citizenship and the creation of the Declaration of Independence. Additionally, Professor Scully leads viewers on a tour of Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia.
The Democratic Process
This program originates from the U.S. Senate's historic Russell Hearing Room. Featured guests are jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Neil Sheehan and Senator Robert Kerrey, who discuss citizenship and the role of minorities and the media in the democratic process.
Dirty Little Secrets: Foundations From the Past
Dirty Little Secrets: Foundations From the Past reports on the joint scientific project by scientists at UA and CSU. The team's research includes looking at how old the various layers are; studying variations in water levels of both Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River; and determining what clues the vegetation holds about climate, water temperatures and the greenhouse effect.
Electric Money
From the financial centers of London to the wireless capital of the world in Helsinki, and from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, Electric Money explores how the digital revolution has completely transformed virtually every sort of financial activity over the last 50 years. Students see firsthand how information technology is both democratizing and globalizing the world of investment. Traveling back to the 1950s, series host Bob Cringely tells the story of the invention of the credit card and how it evolved into the trillion-dollar-a-year business it is today.
English Composition: Writing for an Audience
This series introduces basic principles and strategies for communicating in writing to a variety of audiences and improving general composition skills. Students will meet a wide array of professionals whose work involves writing -- not only authors, journalists, and teachers, but also musicians, judges, nurses, engineers, scientists and even athletes. They discuss how they write with their specific audiences in mind.
Environmental Weekly
This series will help students identify and explain systems such as the water cycle, the energy cycle, the waste cycle and our atmosphere by examining components within those systems. Students can use the concepts of systems to organize seemingly isolated facts and observations into comprehensible explanations of how things work. The 30 shows are divided into four modules: 1. Land and Water; 2. Conservation and Waste; 3. Energy; and 4. Technology and Human Health.
EnviroTacklebox: Module #3
These fast-paced programs on the environment feature an engaging host and likeable student correspondents, contemporary music and graphics and plenty of on-location segments.
Exploring the World of Music
Gain an understanding of the basic elements of music. Exploring the World of Music shows how elements such as melody, rhythm and texture create an infinite variety of sounds and serve as expressions of culture. The series presents themes such as music and the environment, music as cultural memory, and how technology changes music.
Floating on Air
Lighter-than-air enthusiasts share their fond memories and the fascinating history of Akron's unofficial mascot of the skies, the blimp. You'll meet the people who populate the blimp's history. Over the years, the blimp has assumed many roles. Its gig in the transportation industry was brought to an end by more efficient means of moving products. During World War II, the blimp served military duty in surveillance. Today, the blimp is primarily a promotional vehicle and the unofficial mascot of Akron's skies.
German Scene
This half-hour program presents a monthly round-up of news, events and personalities from Germany. Topics range from politics and elections, to art and popular culture, to travel, the environment and sports.
Hands-On Crafts for Kids: Crafting Together
Designed for regular classroom use and not specifically for art education, Crafting Together is a series of arts and crafts activities modeled on the Hands-On Crafts for Kids concept. Each program is curriculum-based in terms of skills and includes six easy craft projects to supplement the teaching of academic subjects.
Hands-On Crafts for Kids: Crafts Around the Earth
Crafts Around the Earth visits the habitats of the world and helps plant the seeds of creativity. Each program covers a different location, such as the Outback, rain forests and deserts, and explores the products, landscape, wildlife and people of the area through five different crafts. Specific curriculum skills are stressed, including factual information about the habitat and mathematical skills such as measuring.
Hands-On Crafts for Kids: Crafts Around the World
Crafts Around the World explores different countries and cultures through their crafts. The body of each program includes five or six different projects, each introduced with interesting facts about the craft and its significance to that country. A generic supply list is provided along with a demonstration of all the steps of the project. All projects call for easily-found general craft materials (many recycled) that are readily available through most school distributors or local retailers. The project criteria include attention to cost per student, minimal set-up time and the ability to complete projects in one class period or over multiple short time periods. There is no need for art training by the classroom teacher.
Innocence in an Age of Infamy: Teenage Experiences of WWII
This series tells the compelling stories of teens caught in the most pivotal moment of the 20th century: World War II. The series weaves original photographs and rare footage with firsthand accounts from people who came of age during WWII.
The Inside Story With Slim Goodbody
Slim Goodbody sings and dances his way through huge working models of the human heart, lungs and digestive system to help children understand what really happens inside their bodies.
It's a Gas! Math & Science of the Blimp (coming May 2004)
Helping students learn math and science is the goal of this new PBS 45 & 49 multimedia project. The workings of the blimp will provide the framework for teachers to facilitate the application of concepts needed to prepare for Ohio's proficiency tests. The video series follows two high school students, Rob and Lindsey, trying to win college scholarships. The two team up and decide to create a documentary about how blimps are made and how they work. Each video is a lesson starter that leads to hands-on CD-ROM, DVD and Web site activities. Materials for the series will not be available until May 2004.
Justice and the Citizen: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even though black Americans had come out of slavery, which was abolished in 1863, they continued to suffer the effects of racial segregation well into the middle of the 20th century. In every sense they were second-class citizens: they couldn't eat in the same restaurants as whites, couldn't use the same restrooms, couldn't drink water from the same fountains. Prejudice and bigotry existed throughout the country to varying degrees, especially in the South, and their effects went largely unchallenged until 1955, when the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged in the quiet town of Montgomery, Alabama.
Justice and the Citizen: Tolerance in America
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a key figure in the historic struggle to extend to all Americans the constitutional guarantees of equality and freedom. The successful example of the black civil rights movement encouraged other groups including women, Native Americans and the handicapped in their campaigns for legislative and judicial recognition of civil equality. This program explores Dr. King's influence since 1968.
Main Street America
Main Street America explores the stories of four different cities -- Akron, Ohio; Port Gibson, Mississippi; Springfield, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon -- each in various stages of rejuvenation and working to overcome problems that have been years in the making.
Masters of Gravity: Soap Box Derby Math & Science
The Soap Box Derby, an activity that students find fun and interesting, will provide the framework for teachers to facilitate the application of concepts needed to prepare for Ohio's proficiency tests.
Math Monsters
Math Monsters, developed in cooperation with the National Council of Teachers of Math (NCTM), is designed to meet and support national standards for K-2 math instruction. While individual programs focus on what is called "A Big Idea" (data collection, patterns, measurement, etc.), at least four of these standards are interwoven into every show: problem-solving, mathematical connections, mathematical communication and reasoning.
Media Moments
This series helps students understand how television news programs are put together. Go behind the scenes to see how news sets are constructed to make the news more believable. Meet the people who work off camera. Discover who decides what news stories you see on TV, what news anchors do when they are not on TV, how news programs are designed to make you want to watch and how ratings are used to determine if a program is successful.
NASA Connect
Share with your students examples of how mathematics and science are used every day by NASA aeronautical engineers and scientists. Hosted by Dr. Shelly Canright of the NASA Langley Research Center, each program includes a lesson, a classroom experiment and a Web-based interactive component designed by Langley's Learning Technologies Project.
NatureWorks
This series explores the workings of the natural world. Programs are grouped together to study the concepts of communities, adaptation, biodiversity and interdependence.
Newsdepth
This weekly newscast presents the most significant news of the week, with an emphasis on Ohio news.
Ohio Math Works
This interactive, multimedia program links mathematics with careers. Video, Web and print materials bring the world of fashion, food, theme parks, sports and meteorology into the classroom. The series correlates to the Ohio Proficiency Outcomes and the Ohio High School Graduation competencies.
Passion, Creativity and the Arts: Writing for Motion Pictures
The act of writing can be more than just a means of self-expression. It can provide a wonderful learning experience by activating the creative process and our natural inclination to imagine, to invent and to pretend. Featuring David Foster, Chuck Jones and George Lucas, this program discusses the creative process of writing and making films.
Reading Rainbow (or http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/)
Each episode of this colorful and imaginative series promotes positive self-esteem and literacy skills, and includes a television adaptation of a children's picture book, a "field trip" segment and reviews of books by children. LeVar Burton hosts. A teachers guide, science guide, math guide and catalog are available at http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/.
Real Science IV
This series takes students into the working world of actual scientists, who demonstrate what they do for a living and how students can pursue similar careers. Includes action tips and curriculum advice.
Reisland Deutschland
Students will enjoy this German language program, translated in English as "Destination Germany," that showcases German cities and landscapes in their whole variety, from the cultural to the social to the political.
The Road to College: A Financial Primer 2004
Designed for high school students and their parents, The Road to College is an hour-long program about the entire college application process. Material covered in the program includes making the decision to go to college; selecting the right college; filling out college applications; taking the SAT test; fulfilling college essay requirements; participating in college interviews; applying for financial aid; filling out FASFA forms; seeking federal grants; winning scholarships; applying for college loans; and receiving acceptance notification.
Schwarzkopf on Leadership: The 50th Anniversary of D-Day
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War commander, discusses his techniques in motivating a team and describes the essential elements in leading troops as well as the significance of General Eisenhower's leadership in the D-Day invasion at Normandy.
Science and Exploration: Dinosaurs, Fossils and the Origins of Life
From Jurassic Park to the Montana Badlands, students join eminent paleontologist John Horner and evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould for a discussion on dinosaurs, extinction and the origins of man.
Sew Young, Sew Fun
Smart educators know that sewing education is more than a domestic skill. A university study of children who sew revealed heightened levels of creativity. Sew Young, Sew Fun is the first and only television series designed to stimulate the young creative spirit through sewing.
Sharing Art
Through visits to northeast Ohio art museums and schools and conversations with local artists, Sharing Art demonstrates real-world applications of the techniques taught in middle and high school art classes. Each week, students learn about a piece of art in a museum, which is followed by a local artist explaining how he/she does comparable art. Students then follow up in the classroom by creating a similar work.
A Simple Life
Holmes County, Ohio, is the center of the world's largest Amish population and a place where two worlds -- contemporary American society and traditional Amish living -- converge. It's also one of the hottest tourist destinations in the U.S. PBS 45 & 49's A Simple Life visits the people and the places that populate the beautiful rolling hills and farms of this rural northeastern Ohio county to find out what draws millions of visitors each year.
Speaking of History . . . Doing Oral History Projects
Collecting and archiving oral histories is a wonderful way to build community, present proficiency skills in a real-life setting, preserve histories that may soon be gone forever and make these collections available to the entire community. Speaking of History . . . Doing Oral History Projects is a multicultural and interdisciplinary project built around the practice of collaboration. Schools, public libraries, historical societies and three universities are key players in bringing oral history into your classroom.
Test Quest
Test Quest is a three-part series designed to help students study and pass tests, including proficiency tests. In the first program, students meet the Questers, a group of six students with different learning styles. Your students will discover their own learning styles -- visual, auditory or kinesthetic. In the second video, the Questers tell us how they studied the information they were working with in episode one. They then take phone calls to address questions about study techniques and to explain to callers how discovering one's learning style helps to determine how to study. In the third part, the Questers are contestants on a quiz show that poses questions about studying and taking tests. Who's the winner? Tune in and find out -- and get lots of ideas on how to improve your study plan!
Tracks: Impressions of America
Tracks: Impressions of America reflects the experiences of two young adults who investigate U.S. history as they travel by rail across the country. All 12 programs in the series give historic events a present-day relevance. Tracing the country's biography through sites visited by rail creates continuity between the programs and reinforces the idea that students can experience history personally.
twentyfourhours
We turn to the television every day for a concise review of the day's news. We have also come to rely on it for instant coverage of every tragic event that occurs around the world. Bundle that coverage with some sports and weather, present it all in a period of 30 minutes or an hour, and we have what is known as "local news." But just who determines which crime, which murder, which fraud makes the air? In a country of people trained to listen to sound bytes, who decides how many seconds can be devoted to the telling of each story? NewsNight Akron's Mark Urycki, who is also an award-winning reporter for WKSU, tries to answer these questions through interviews with all the major commercial television news stations in Cleveland and Akron.
Weather or Not
Weather or Not is designed to promote learning through exploration of the environment. The series provides students with real-world problems and lifelike simulations to challenge their knowledge and skills in math, general science and meteorology.
Women in the World of Science and Exploration
This program features Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr. Sylvia Earle and Major Jackie Parker as they share their zeal for adventure and a passion for science. Dr. Earle's ocean explorations have produced important advances and products for medicine and industry. Dr. Goodall's research in Tanzania, Africa, has led to advancements in understanding social behavior. Major Parker's flights have helped introduce a new era of military operations.
The World's Largest Concert 2004
Every year, The World's Largest Concert unites an estimated eight million students and teachers in song during "Music in Our Schools Month."
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