Elementary
December 11 - December 17, 2013

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Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame
Grade Range: 5-8

In this video segment from TV411, two professional basketball players plan a trip from Atlanta, Georgia to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Using a road map of the United States and a ruler, they figure out the distance they must travel. To calculate how long the trip will take, they focus on the map's legend and their predicted driving speed.

The Invasion of the Modern World
Grade Range: 4-12

Logging has become an invader to the Baka people who live in the rainforest in southeast Cameroon. In this video segment, a man rises in the morning to the sound of a buzz saw cutting down another tree. The Baka can only stand by and watch silently as loggers rob them of their trees. The rainforests of West Africa have almost disappeared. What happens in Cameroon will affect what happens to the rest of the Congo Basin, one of the oldest living ecosystems in the world. Learn more about the lives of the Baka in "Who are the Baka?" and "Taking a Stand," part of a sequence of three video segments from the series Africa.

Form an Opinion - Cats
Grade Range: 4-12

After viewing the video, students develop an informed opinion about which animal makes a better pet, cats or dogs.

Amazing Trampolini Brothers: Brave
Grade Range: Prek-1

In this video segment from

Between the Lions, the circus MC introduces the incredible, daring, and animated Trampolini Brothers before they perform the Brave Human Canonball Hoopla. The MC of the circus reviews the comparative and superlative adjectives brave, braver, and bravest, and then he gets chased by one of the man-eating plants. Featured vocabulary include the comparative and superlative adjectives brave, braver, and bravest. This video segment provides a resource for vocabulary, language and vocabulary development, phonics, letter knowledge awareness, and phonological awareness.

Writing a Fantasy - Creatures in the Sea
Grade Range: 1-4

Students watch a video segment, assign special characteristics to the sea creatures they see and use their make-believe or fantasy ideas to write an underwater sea fantasy.

Segregated Schooling in South Carolina

Grade Range: 3-12

In 1950, a group of black parents in Clarendon County, South Carolina filed a lawsuit to equalize education for their children. Encouraged by the NAACP and a local minister, the Reverend Joseph Armstrong De Laine, the case became part of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. In this video segment, the Reverend De Laine's children, Joseph De Laine Jr. and Ophelia De Laine Gona, recall conditions in their segregated school.

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