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  • CEO Exchange: Safeguarding the Future: Heroes and Villains of the Computer Age

    In this episode meet two CEOs familiar with the good, the bad, and the ugly of what’s in your computer. Now that Paul Otellini has put Intel inside Macs and PCs, he’s trying to make sure that Intel is at the core of home entertainment, business transactions, and health care. At Symantec, John Thompson is secure in the knowledge that his company is the leader in protecting every technology user from viruses, spyware, and invasions of privacy.

  • American Experience: The Presidents Collection 15PK DVD

    This collection of 20th century presidential biographies from the acclaimed American Experience President’s Collection includes TR, Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), FDR (1933-1945), Truman (1945-1953), Kennedys (1961- 1963), LBJ (1963-1969), Nixon (1969-1974), Carter (1977-1981), Reagan (1981-1989) and George H.W. Bush (1989-1993).

  • American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    A highlight of the nationwide Lincoln Bicentennial celebration is this unprecedented two-hour documentary on the life and legacy of the man widely considered one of our best – and most enigmatic – presidents. It addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln about race, equality, religion, politics, and depression by carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him and those who study him today.

  • American Experience: The Polio Crusade

    Based in part on David Oshinsky’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Polio: An American Story, this one-hour film chronicles a decades-long crusade, fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and its innovative public relations campaign, and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a forgotten woman researcher.

  • American Experince – A Class Apart

    In the tiny town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, a field hand named Pete Hernandez murdered his employer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A Class Apart tells the little-known story of a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers who took their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans.

  • Lines Shapes and Sizes

    Topics include: points and lines, angels, congruent angels, shapes and figures, finding congruent figures, lines of symmetry in figures, solid figures, the number line, coordinate plane.

  • Measurement

    Topics include: Temperature, time, standard of measurement: English to Metric, length, perimeter, area, weight, volume.

  • Patterns and Graphs

    Topics Include: Patterns, pictographs, bar graphs, line graphs, probability and outcomes, prime and composite numbers.

  • Whole Numbers and the Numberline

    Topics include: whole numbers, comparing numbers, place value, rounding numbers, numberline and introduction to decimals

  • Addition and Subtraction

    Topics include: addition, subtraction, estimation and problem-solving skills.