Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
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Our first exposure to geometry is that of Euclid, in which all triangl es have 180 degrees. As it turns out, triangles can have more or less than 180 degrees. This unit explores these curved spaces that are at o nce otherwordly and firmly of this world
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Watch this program in the 10th session for K–2 and 3–5 teach ers. Explore how the concepts developed in this course can be applied through case studies of K–5 teachers who have adapted their new k nowledge to their classrooms.
As the Learner Teams continue working on their own units, they examine strategies for determining how well students meet unit objectives. By revisiting the lessons in the first four programs, they discover how to build formative and summative assessments into the units that they are developing.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Dave recalls the Pilgrim's decision to leave England and find a place free from religious persecution. Dave traces the Pilgrim exodus to Amsterdam, to Leiden, and finally to America where a land patent gives the settlers permission to settle in Virginia. Dave explains that the Mayflower Compact established social order and good government that would ultimately inspire the words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Dave visits Plymouth Rock, and gives some idea of the Native American friendships that resulted in the first Thanksgiving on American soil.
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the size of the United States d oubles with the Louisiana Purchase. The Appalachians are no longer the barrier to American migration west; the Mississippi River becomes the country's central artery; and Jefferson's vision of an Empire of Libe rty begins to take shape. American historian Stephen Ambrose joins Pro fessors Maier and Miller in examining the consequences of the Louisian a Purchase -- for the North, the South, and the history of the country .
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 has slavery shaped the American literary imagination and American identity? This program turns to the classic slave narratives of Ha rriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass and the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe. What rhetorical strategies do their works use to construct an authentic and authoritative American self?
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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.