The events surrounding the Revolutionary War are closely detailed as students learn about the major battles and significant people that impacted this time of turmoil. Students will learn about the battle of Bunker Hill, meet Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, witness the battle of Yorktown, and come to understand how other countries became involved in this epic war. Students will realize that while the events of war were taking place, the colonists were also busy forming the ideas and creating the documents that would become the foundation of a new country.
Languages: English
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Corn: From Farm to Table
Analyze the steps involved in growing corn as we follow corn from a seed to the table-plowing, planting, and picking-using modern farm machinery and techniques. See harvested corn being transported by trucks, trains, ships, and barges to food processors, made into cornflakes and other products, then sold to the consumer. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Different Types of Maps: Topographic, Political?
Students learn about the different projections possible to represent the round Earth on a flat surface and the various kinds of information displayed on maps. Map types covered include political, physical, relief, climate, vegetation and more. Combining the latest technology with visual images supplied from around the world, this program takes difficult material and provides the student with easy-to-understand visual presentations.
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Economy in and between Communities
This engaging program will grab and hold your students attention as they are introduced to the key concepts surrounding our community’s economy. They will learn the difference between goods and services in both the public and private sector. Lots of real life visuals show people at work – production workers and service workers – and helps students understand the role taxes play in our lives. Personal responsibility, work ethic, and the difference between wants and needs are shown in terms students will understand. (1) Introduction (2) Jobs in the Community (3) Providing Goods and Services (4) Types of Services: Public and Private (5) Public Services (6) Taxes (7) The Difference between Wants and Needs (8) Review (99) End
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How Customs and Heritage Shape Communities
Something as simple as food has a rich cultural history. From this springboard students take a look at the heritage of many people groups in the United States. Drawing from historical and community resources students will discover how people all over the world have left their mark on the land they settled. While the differences are compared and contrasted children will be caught up in the rhythm of Cinco De Mayo, the celebration of Chinese New Year, the family focus of Kwanzaa and recognize the ways they are all part of the same community.
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How Leaders and Events Shape Communities
Page is reluctant to run for class president until a great leader from the past shows her what leadership is all about. Students will be inspired by the everyday heroism that built our country. They will also be introduced to the well, and little known leaders that shaped our nation’s growth. As students meet these great leaders they will be able to identify the responsibilities of authority figures in their home, school, and community from the local to the national level.
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How Location Affects Life: Different Areas, Climate, Latitude and Longitude
Students examine geographical and human factors that affect personal and societal ways of life. Physical components such as climate, landform and relative location are discussed, expanding a learner’s understanding of characteristics within northern and southern hemispheres, differing latitudes and longitudes. Population density, cost of living, and politics are considered as human factors impacting daily life. Regional examples review the interrelationship of geographical, climactic, and historical events that shape everyday life.
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Beginning Maps: Models and Places
Students discover the relationship between the real world, small models of real locations and the purpose of maps. Engaging models of a neighborhood, school and face become “maps” before their eyes. Information on the models corresponds to simple maps with special attention given to relative location and scale. A globe is a view of the world from high above. Students distinguish between water and land on a map and on a globe. They also identify places on the map from stories of the past i.e., where Columbus landed and today like where the President lives. (1) Introduction (2) Beginning Maps: Models and Places (3) Models and Maps (4) Maps and Globes (5) Finding Places on the Map (6) Review
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Reading Maps and Globes: Identifying Land, Water, Place
Students review the compass rose and add intermediate directions to their understanding as they locate continents, oceans and the equator on a map. Mental maps and the grid map are also reviewed and expanded with simple parallels and meridians. Students will locate major countries and use scale to trace travel routes, determine distance between locations, and introduce new visuals to their understanding of mental maps. By locating the Regions of the United States and the Native American tribes that called them home the ideas behind cultural geography are simply introduced. Students locate lakes, rivers and mountains on a new introduction, the landform map. Reading Maps and Globes is the perfect transition to Using Maps and Globes.
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Using Maps and Globes (DVD)
Building on students? basic understanding of maps and globes, the more complex concepts of latitude and longitude are introduced. The equator, north and south hemispheres, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are defined and located down to minutes and degrees. The Prime Meridian, east and west Hemispheres, Time Zones, and the International Dateline come to life on a world cruise review.