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Metal shop and wood shop is making a comeback in California, thanks to an influx of new state dollars into career technical education. Walk into the whimsical world of 826 Valencia, a writing workshop for kids inside a pirate-themed shop in San Francisco. See a day in the life of a paraeducator. Plus, we travel to La Ca?ada in Southern California to answer the question: Who runs my school?
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
How was the industrial revolution a global process, not just a Europea n or American story? This unit links Cuba, Uruguay, Europe, and Japan, examining the impact of industry on trade, environment, culture, tech nology, and lives around the world.
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What does the study of families and households tell us about our globa l past? In this unit examining West Asia, Europe, and China, families and households become the focus of historians, providing a window into the private experiences in world societies, and how they sometimes be come a model for ordering the outside world.
Vocabulario: directions; more family members; weather; changes in stat es and condition; parts of a house; domestic appliances; more ndescrip tive adjectives.nGram
This program underscores how chemistry affects all aspects of life. Se veral expert guests discuss chemistry terms and concepts in various ap plications. A glass blower discusses the three states of matter - soli d, liquid, and gas - and how heat can transform one to another. Matter is grouped into elements, mixtures, and compounds. Elements are compo sed of protons and neutrons in nucleus, as well as electrons. Compound s are two or more elements in specific proportions that have been chem ically combined. Mixtures combine elements or compounds in any amounts . A cook demonstrates how heating sugar until it becomes caramel chang es one compound into another. The program shows a scientist studying t he chemical structure of plants in order to improve the strength of lu mber. Two Test Connection segments feature the host reviewing previous concepts, including the difference between mixtures and compounds, an d the arrangement of the periodic table of elements based on atomic nu mber.
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