Asia's Monarchies are all unique, but there is one thing they all share in common - all are at a fascinating point in their various histories. In this five-part series we journey to the heart of these beautiful lands to understand the relationship between the people and their monarchs. To many, their monarchy is an anachronism, an institution that hampers progression. To others, it is the heart and soul of their nation, part of their shared history and a guard against the dangers of modernity. What does the future hold for these monarchies? What is clear is that Asia's monarchies are at a tipping-point and that what happens to each of them will bring about a whole new era that will affect not only the East but the whole world.
Audience: General; Subject: Local businesses. (2015) Series on Hawaii's local businesses. This program is about Kamiya Papaya Farm, located in Hauula, Windward Oahu, Hawaii. Kamiya papayas are sold across supermarkets on Oahu.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health. (2007) Highlights the six major essential nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Also explores the digextive process and the nutritional benefits of certain foods. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health.(2007) Explores the USDA food pyramid, emphasizing the five major food groups and the nutritional benefits of each. Balanced diets are also explained. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health. (2007) Stresses the fundamental skills needed to plan, select, and prepare foods that make up a healthy diet. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health. (2007) Addresses a number of health issues including types of foods to avoid, healthy body weight, harmful substances, and the importance of regular exercise. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick enters the myterious, dark world of fungi, that grow by feeding on organic matter. These include mushrooms, truffles, mold, and penicillin. He visits a mushroom farm to show how nutrients feed all kinds of mushrooms. When Nick removes a mushroom stem and leaves a mushroom overnight on paper, he sees the wonderful patterns all kinds of mushrooms make. With two friends, he combines peat moss and compost to create a mushroom farm from the mushroom spores in the peat moss.
Video about the "Dirt" Show at the Museum of Art (2014)
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Language Arts. Write Right! Learning Cursive tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in cursive handwriting for elementary age children and helps them develop good habits in order to write right! Concepts: Letter c, o, C, O. Words: cold, flock.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject: Social Studies. (2002) Traces the life of hero, warrior and backwoods statesman Davy Crockett, who symbolized the adventurous spirit of the American frontier. Follows his election to the Tennessee state legislature in 1821 and later to the U.S. Congress in 1826. Documents his heroic death at the Alamo while helping Texas win independence from Mexico.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) A mixed media artist tells a tale from India about a boy who can't resist eating a tray of eight cakes he was to take to his master, the monk Luntika.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Language Arts. Write Right! Learning Cursive tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in cursive handwriting for elementary age children and helps them develop good habits in order to write right! Concepts: Letters: x, z, X, Z, Words: X-ray, Zebra, Sentences: Exit the Zoo.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Language Arts. Write Right! Learning Cursive tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in cursive handwriting for elementary age children and helps them develop good habits in order to write right! Concepts: Numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Punctuations: ! . ?, Sentences: Wow! My name is Bartleby. Is this fun?
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Christian, who plays the drum in the brass band for Tivoli, the Copenhagen amusement park. Christian shares his dream of forming a jazz band with his friend, Sven. Follows Christian as he takes drum lessons, hangs around in music shops and attends the rehearsals of a professional orchestra.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Language Arts. Write Right! Learning Cursive tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in cursive handwriting for elementary age children and helps them develop good habits in order to write right! Concepts: Letters: g, q, qu, Q, L, G, Sentence: Quite quail gobble.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that soil is made of rocks and contains minerals that feed the roots of plants. Sandy, clay, and mixed soils are introduced. Children are also shown how compost biodegrades into soil. They also learn that some plants are air plants or grow on wooden frames. The activity is making a worm farm.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick is amazed that a tiny seed can grow into a large tree and that seeds can travel hundreds of miles before they find a place to land. Close-up photography shows seed germination, with roots and stem emerging from the seed. He also shows how to harvest tomato seeds for planting in the spring. Even watermelon seeds can grow under the proper conditions. Sprouts, he explains are actually whole plants that we eat as a garnish in sandwiches. He shows two young viewers how to grow sprouts from seeds.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) In autumn, Nick is busy raking leaves. He briefly explains the process of photosynthesis and why deciduous trees need to drop their leaves in the fall. The leaves contain lots of nutrients, however, so that's why they can be used in compost. Provides several examples of leaf shapes and sizes, linking the green color to chlorophyl. Nick is really impressed that leaves are the only living things that can make food from sunlight. Two young friends gather a wide variety of leaves, press them, and scan them on a computer in order to make appealing greeting cards.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that plants create green environments and that we need to keep our life-support system growing. Understanding what a plant needs helps us to preserve the green environment. Plants are solar powered and do their growing at night. Then chlorophyl turns sunlight into energy to keep our plants growing and give energy to us. Nick shows how celery absorbs water, and warns that we must all learn the conditions that plants need to grow. With his young visitors he plants wheat grass, provides the right environment, and watches the plants grow.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that fruit are full of vitamins and minerals and that they keep us healthy. He even shows a pawpaw that is full of seeds, the kind of seeds that birds love to transport to other new locations. Nick explains that a flower is food-making factory that eventually ends up inside a fruit. That's why any vegetables with seeds are really a kind of fruit. Nuts are fruit as well because they contain seeds. Certain fruits like banannas and oranges only grow in tropical fruits. There are even cannonball fruit, dragon fruit, chocolate pudding fruits, buddha's hand fruit and finger limes. Nick believes that citrus fruits are some of the healthiest fruits on earth. With his young friends, he shows how to make lemonade.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick enters the myterious, dark world of fungi, that grow by feeding on organic matter. These include mushrooms, truffles, mold, and penicillin. He visits a mushroom farm to show how nutrients feed all kinds of mushrooms. When Nick removes a mushroom stem and leaves a mushroom overnight on paper, he sees the wonderful patterns all kinds of mushrooms make. With two friends, he combines peat moss and compost to create a mushroom farm from the mushroom spores in the peat moss.
Audience: General; Subject: Local business. (2017) Go behind the scenes of Kahuku Farms in this episode of GROW. Interviews with Kahuku Farms operators Kylie Matsuda-Lum and Judah Lum. See how local Hawaii farms have to work with federal, state, and county offices while providing goods and services. Also, find out more about Hawaii's local agriculture sector from interviews with Hawaii's Department of Agriculture's Scott Enright and University of Hawaii's Steven Chiang from the Agribusiness Incubator Program and GoFarm Hawaii.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Math. (2013) With the help of exciting math fairy tales, children are introduced to abstract mathematical concepts such as counting, categorizing, shapes and colors. Each program in the series will familiarize students with a different aspect of math by using familiar living environments as its theme. At the end of each program a fun math song repeats and reviews the contents of the fairy tale and its lesson. Correlates to Math Common Core State Standards.
We took you to the amazing North Carolina State Farmers Market and Restaurant in in an earlier episode, ?Gypsy?s Place.? What you didn?t know then is that we had some very important guests joining us for lunch that day. Our goal was to show some of the support infrastructure it takes to keep farmers going. We all know it starts with a seed and winds up on our plate, but there are dozens, sometime hundreds of hands involved in the process. So we gathered a dozen or so leaders from the North Carolina agriculture world, representing farms, government and academia, to take a look at their roles in connecting the dots. But this is not just a North Carolina story. There are people just like this in your home state doing what they can to help keep you fed.
Millions of kids spent the first few years of their lives saying "Yuck" to broccoli. Pres. George Bush Sr. didn't like it either. But most of us grow up to find it quite tasty. And over the last few years, we've come to realize just what a nutritional powerhouse this flowery veggie is ? along with its close cousins Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower. Their known as cruciferous vegetables, because they flower in the shape of a cross. But these days you could just substitute the word cruciferous with "super amazingly healthy." The crucifers have traditionally been West Coast crops, but over the last few years new varieties have been developed that can be grown almost anywhere. They're also some of the weirdest looking things you've ever seen coming out of the ground. In winter, the area around Palatka, FL is the crucifer capital of the U.S. We visited L&M Farms and Smith's Farm to find out more about how these tasty health helpers grow and are harvested.
Explores the historical significance of the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American democracy. Examines how this national document reflects America's intent to free herself from English rule and symbolizes the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Explains how Thomas Jefferson became the author of the Declaration of Independence and emphasizes the responsibility of a representative government to its citizens.
Explores the mythology, legends and history found in the Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling.
Audience: General; Grades: All; Subject Areas: Music.Ancient Hawaii musical instruments - its history, culture and ties to the people.
Following the process of adapting a classic ballet into a "Hawaiianized" version that reflects the history of the Hawaiian Monarchy under the last Queen of the islands and the location of historic Washington Place by Ballet Hawaii.
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies. (2015) Washington Place tells the story of one of Honolulu's most famous landmarks, Washington Place. The documentary covers the history of the home, from the time of its construction to its present day role as a historic home museum. The documentary explores Washington Place as the home of Queen Lili'uokalani the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands.
Audience: General; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. Adella Buss - Mixed Media, Liz Train - Fiber Arts
First hand accounts show how governments, industries, and people worldwide are protecting animals who are endangered because of habitat loss. Part 1 explains that the Yangtze dolphin is now extinct from overfishing and pollution. Part 2 visits indigenous people, the Koryak, who have always herded reindeer in their Russian homeland. They tell how they are attempting to sustain the reindeer popular and keep their ancient way of life against government pressure to assimilate. Part 3 reviews the history of elephants and the ivory trade, explaining that the elephant trade and poachers are still endangering these great beasts. Part 4 visits a baby spectacled bear born in an Argentine zoo. Part 5: in South China a breeding program is attempting to restore tiger populations who have become endangered as a result of deforestation. Part 6: In Tibet the black-necked crane is endangered as a result of habitat loss and pollution. Part 7: a orangutan baby born; the species is threatened because of rain forest destruction.
In the name of progress with an eye on commerce, important habitats are steadily losing ground, quite literally. The consequences of these lost habitats are difficult to comprehend, but the results are becoming ever more evident. Abundant plant and animal life gradually dwindles, water and other vital resources diminish, and if the habitat losses continue unchallenged, humans are surely the next in line.
First hand accounts show how individuals are choosing a more environmentally friendly approach to life. Part 1: In New York City a travelling greenhouse barge will encourage New Yorkers to grown vegetable gardens on their rooftops. Part 2: Welsh sheep are allowing a small industry to provide organic mattresses that is also fireproof. Part 3: Visits the Royal Horticulture greenhouse to observe exotic plants and the educational programs provided for children and adults. Part 4: In the Philippines waste is being controlling by reusable packaging and baskets made from native plants. Part 5: in the Green Shop, people in the United Kingdom can purchase environmentally friendly products. Part 6: In Brooklyn, a writer has created a farm in his urban back yard. Part 7: In Chile, human and industrial wastes are purified by earthworms. Part 8: In Devon, England, a wedding in a fairytale setting is environmentally friendly.
First hand accounts show how governments, industries, and people worldwide are protecting natural resources by using principles of wise resource allocation. Part 1: In Masai communities in Africa, women are collecting rain water and runoff and storing it in tanks. Part 2: In Britain, a wetland area is being restored to a salt marsh for seabirds and for the prevention of flooding that may occur as a result of global warming. Part 3: In India, freshwater turtles are being protected from poachers. Part 4: Introduces U.N. initiatives and the efforts of non-governmental agencies to increase the supply of clean water in Africa. Part 5: in Brazil, an indigenous group has opened their own school to teach Amazon residents how to make a living without harming the environment. Part 6: annual sandstorms in the Gobi Desert have displaced Chinese people who are now fighting back by planting trees. Part 7: In Japan the slaughter of dolphins has become a source of public outcry.
Be thankful for those individuals who care enough to make a difference. From across our globe, these special people are taking on unique environmental challenges and in the process protecting our world. Each person, each effort, brings hope and inspiration to us all, whether it?s re-wilding, rebuilding, preserving, enlightening, surmounting or conserving.
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies.(2015) Hidden in the back of Manoa Valley, the Lyon Arboretum is a historic site that serves as a botanical garden, an educational institution, and a research facility. The documentary tells the history of the arboretum and the vital role it played in preserving our watershed. The many present-day activities of the arboretum are also featured including its work in preserving and exhibiting Native Hawaiian and exotic plants, its role as an educational institution and its role as a research facility.
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies.(2015) This documentary covers the activities of the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program at the Lyon Arboretum, a program that seeks to propagate and preserve the most endangered plant species in our islands. The documentary explores the program's three main components: a seed bank, a micro-propagation laboratory, and its greenhouse facilities. The processes of seed storage and micro-propagation are explained, and several rarely seen endangered plants are featured.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject: Social Studies. (2002) Traces the life of Chief Sitting Bull, who defended his people and their promised land against the invasion of American settlers. Shows how his mystical visions proved true both in the Indian victory at Little Big Horn and in his death at Standing Rock. Depicts a man who was a loving father, a composer of songs, an artist, and a loyal friend.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Language Arts. Write Right! Learning Cursive tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in cursive handwriting for elementary age children and helps them develop good habits in order to write right! Concepts: Letters: j, p, J, I, P, Words: jaws, pie, Jack, Idaho, Sentence: Projects star with ideas.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Guest artist Hiroki Morinoue teaches the use of texture through a project using tempera paint mixed with spackle. He paints shell designs on masonite boards to create texture tiles.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Guest artist Maile Ka'ai defines value as the quality of light and dark. Using pencils, she instructs a drawing lesson emphasizing value.
FLASHPOINT - Brings together an accomplished group of Hawai'i based artists working under the theme of FIRE. Artworks in this exhibition depict the varied aspects of FIRE and are visual interpretations of flashpoints in time and place - in methods of fabrication and conceptual context.
The Art Bento Program at the Hawai?i State Art Museum (HiSAM) is a museum education program of the Hawai?i State Art Museum serving Oahu Department of Education elementary students, Grades 2 ? 6, and their teachers. This four-part inquiry-based program actively engages students and teachers through activities connected to current arts standards and ELA Common Core Standards. This unique multi-disciplinary educational opportunity emphasizes arts and visual literacy and is led by qualified teaching artists from the Hawai?i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) Artistic Teaching Partners (ATP) roster. There is no cost to schools to participate in the program and funds for bus transportation are also provided.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using natural vegetation, an artist illustrates the story of the Snake and the Maiden. The seven tribes of Uagadu, one of the richest lands in Africa, all worshipped the snake Bida that brought the rains. In return, Bida asked them for one offering each spring -- to eat the prettiest maiden in the land. Each of the tribes took turns making the sacrifice until it was the turn of the Bambars. The tribal elders chose the beautiful 16-year-old Sia to be sacrificed, but Amadu was madly in love with her. To save her from such a dreadful fate, Amadu killed the snake. From that day on, drought turned Uagadu into a desert. The elders accused Amadu and Sia of treason and banished them. But the young couple found another land and lived happily ever after.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Christian, who plays the drum in the brass band for Tivoli, the Copenhagen amusement park. Christian shares his dream of forming a jazz band with his friend, Sven. Follows Christian as he takes drum lessons, hangs around in music shops and attends the rehearsals of a professional orchestra.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Language Arts. Write Right! Learning Cursive tackles the drudgery and redundant nature of learning to write in cursive handwriting for elementary age children and helps them develop good habits in order to write right! Concepts: Letters: g, q, qu, Q, L, G, Sentence: Quite quail gobble.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that soil is made of rocks and contains minerals that feed the roots of plants. Sandy, clay, and mixed soils are introduced. Children are also shown how compost biodegrades into soil. They also learn that some plants are air plants or grow on wooden frames. The activity is making a worm farm.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick is amazed that a tiny seed can grow into a large tree and that seeds can travel hundreds of miles before they find a place to land. Close-up photography shows seed germination, with roots and stem emerging from the seed. He also shows how to harvest tomato seeds for planting in the spring. Even watermelon seeds can grow under the proper conditions. Sprouts, he explains are actually whole plants that we eat as a garnish in sandwiches. He shows two young viewers how to grow sprouts from seeds.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) In autumn, Nick is busy raking leaves. He briefly explains the process of photosynthesis and why deciduous trees need to drop their leaves in the fall. The leaves contain lots of nutrients, however, so that's why they can be used in compost. Provides several examples of leaf shapes and sizes, linking the green color to chlorophyl. Nick is really impressed that leaves are the only living things that can make food from sunlight. Two young friends gather a wide variety of leaves, press them, and scan them on a computer in order to make appealing greeting cards.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that plants create green environments and that we need to keep our life-support system growing. Understanding what a plant needs helps us to preserve the green environment. Plants are solar powered and do their growing at night. Then chlorophyl turns sunlight into energy to keep our plants growing and give energy to us. Nick shows how celery absorbs water, and warns that we must all learn the conditions that plants need to grow. With his young visitors he plants wheat grass, provides the right environment, and watches the plants grow.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that fruit are full of vitamins and minerals and that they keep us healthy. He even shows a pawpaw that is full of seeds, the kind of seeds that birds love to transport to other new locations. Nick explains that a flower is food-making factory that eventually ends up inside a fruit. That's why any vegetables with seeds are really a kind of fruit. Nuts are fruit as well because they contain seeds. Certain fruits like banannas and oranges only grow in tropical fruits. There are even cannonball fruit, dragon fruit, chocolate pudding fruits, buddha's hand fruit and finger limes. Nick believes that citrus fruits are some of the healthiest fruits on earth. With his young friends, he shows how to make lemonade.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick enters the myterious, dark world of fungi, that grow by feeding on organic matter. These include mushrooms, truffles, mold, and penicillin. He visits a mushroom farm to show how nutrients feed all kinds of mushrooms. When Nick removes a mushroom stem and leaves a mushroom overnight on paper, he sees the wonderful patterns all kinds of mushrooms make. With two friends, he combines peat moss and compost to create a mushroom farm from the mushroom spores in the peat moss.
Audience: General; Subject: Local business. (2017) Go behind the scenes of Kahuku Farms in this episode of GROW. Interviews with Kahuku Farms operators Kylie Matsuda-Lum and Judah Lum. See how local Hawaii farms have to work with federal, state, and county offices while providing goods and services. Also, find out more about Hawaii's local agriculture sector from interviews with Hawaii's Department of Agriculture's Scott Enright and University of Hawaii's Steven Chiang from the Agribusiness Incubator Program and GoFarm Hawaii.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Math. (2013) With the help of exciting math fairy tales, children are introduced to abstract mathematical concepts such as counting, categorizing, shapes and colors. Each program in the series will familiarize students with a different aspect of math by using familiar living environments as its theme. At the end of each program a fun math song repeats and reviews the contents of the fairy tale and its lesson. Correlates to Math Common Core State Standards.
We took you to the amazing North Carolina State Farmers Market and Restaurant in in an earlier episode, ?Gypsy?s Place.? What you didn?t know then is that we had some very important guests joining us for lunch that day. Our goal was to show some of the support infrastructure it takes to keep farmers going. We all know it starts with a seed and winds up on our plate, but there are dozens, sometime hundreds of hands involved in the process. So we gathered a dozen or so leaders from the North Carolina agriculture world, representing farms, government and academia, to take a look at their roles in connecting the dots. But this is not just a North Carolina story. There are people just like this in your home state doing what they can to help keep you fed.
Millions of kids spent the first few years of their lives saying "Yuck" to broccoli. Pres. George Bush Sr. didn't like it either. But most of us grow up to find it quite tasty. And over the last few years, we've come to realize just what a nutritional powerhouse this flowery veggie is ? along with its close cousins Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower. Their known as cruciferous vegetables, because they flower in the shape of a cross. But these days you could just substitute the word cruciferous with "super amazingly healthy." The crucifers have traditionally been West Coast crops, but over the last few years new varieties have been developed that can be grown almost anywhere. They're also some of the weirdest looking things you've ever seen coming out of the ground. In winter, the area around Palatka, FL is the crucifer capital of the U.S. We visited L&M Farms and Smith's Farm to find out more about how these tasty health helpers grow and are harvested.
Explores the historical significance of the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American democracy. Examines how this national document reflects America's intent to free herself from English rule and symbolizes the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Explains how Thomas Jefferson became the author of the Declaration of Independence and emphasizes the responsibility of a representative government to its citizens.