Audience: General; Subject Areas: Science. (2017) Follow the team as they work onboard a commercial fishing vessel to help save a prehistoric sixgill shark tangled in deep set fishing lines. Watch Neil and Choy bring the shark to the side of the boat and work in difficult conditions to remove dozens of hooks, cut steel lines and attach a tracking tag before Neil swims this massive shark back to the deep ocean.
Audience: General; Subject Areas: Science (2017) Locals say you shouldn't swim in the sea at night, Neil and his team set out to understand why. They perform a surgical procedure to implant an acoustic tag in the abdomen of a juvenile shark in a bid to reveal how often these animals return close to Bermuda's shores at night.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) Designing Life. Man has been doing it for over 10,000 years. You may not be aware of it, but we are surrounded by "Superlife," life-forms manipulated by Man. Superlife looks at the stories of how these super organisms came to permeate our planet, and how the latest science is pushing the boundaries to create more with less time and resources and at a higher quality. Note- Superlife explores the science of how mankind is manipulating life for its benefit. The series does not attempt to address the concerns surrounding cloning, genetically modified organisms or the ethics of certain farming practices.
(2019) Video by the Hawaii State Department of Education featuring teachers and staff who have made an impact on students. This video features the district and state Teacher of the Year 2019.
This program focuses on teachers who have made a difference in the lives of their students, the educators who make their chosen profession their passion.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: Career/Life Skills. Career Day is designed to support efforts to increase student interest and performance in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The programs are designed to spark student interest in various STEM-related careers through virtual field trips into various days in the lives of our experts. Guests give on-the-job examples of equipment or methodology used in their careers and talk about the STEM fields of study involved. Students are also given information about the kinds of courses they would need to take in school if they were interested in pursuing careers in any of the fields. Alternative Energy The first program in the series looks at careers in alternative energy and green design.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Career/Life Skills. (2019) Individual people aren't the only ones who need advice on how to invest their savings. Helena will meet a financial advisor who specializes in working with schools and government institutions to invest their cash reserves. Imagine what life would be like if you couldn't hear or if you were dizzy all the time. Shawn will visit an audiologist who shares with him how she tests for and treats both hearing and balance disorders. Alternative health careers are becoming increasingly popular. Helena will introduce us to a bio-energetic practitioner and wellness consultant and learn what she does to get her clients on the path to good health.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Career/Life Skills. (2019) Breaking into an acting career isn't easy. Helena will talk with an actress and see how she has found her niche in this highly competitive industry. And Shawn will meet a genetic counselor and hear how she works with couples to evaluate their risks of having babies with various birth defects. Plus Helena will visit a home health aide and learn how she assists her elderly clients with their daily needs and the difference she makes in their lives.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Career/Life Skills. (2019) New discoveries are being made in health and biology on a regular basis. Shawn will meet up with a biomedical scientist who will introduce him to his fascinating career studying viruses and immunities. Than Helena will go to a church where the pastor will speak with her about what inspired him to enter the ministry and how he works daily with the church's members. Hostage situations are never taken lightly. Shawn will meet a police officer who specializes in negotiating the safe release of hostages and victims from a captor.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2019) In this episode: Smart houses, medical wearable devices, total recall, 4 Awesome Discoveries, super speed snowflakes, Quantum Matters, and much more!
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Health, SEL. (2018) Solid scientific evidence has shown the positive effects of mindfulness in school programs. However, teaching young children mindfulness concepts can be challenging. Breathe Like A Bear comes to the rescue, providing an engaging, kid-friendly introduction to mindfulness. This beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises is designed to teach young students techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. These thirty simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: at a child's desk at school, during heavy homework nights at home, or simply in the car on the way to the grocery store. The exercises are broken down into five sections: Be Calm, Focus, Imagine, Make Some Energy, and Relax. Based on Kira Willey's Parents' Choice GOLD Award winner Mindful Moments for Kids, Breathe Like a Bear is sure to help children find calm, gain focus, and feel energized during the day.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject: Social Studies. (2002) Traces the life of Amelia Earhart, who amazed the world with her aviating prowess during the time of the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression, when women were painfully restricted. Nicknamed "Lady Lindy", Amelia's adventurous spirit led her to become the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean. Explores the mystery surrounding her final flight on which she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared.
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: General; Subject: Social Studies. (2009) 1886 - San Francisco's Chinese American Laundry Men Sue for Equal Rights 1887 - Doc Hay and Lung On Arrive on the Eastern Oregon Frontier 1888 - Lue Gim Gong, Father of the Florida Citrus Industry 1894 - Polly Bemis, an Angel in Idaho's Wilderness 1906 - San Francisco Earthquake's Impa
Audience: General; Subject: Social Studies. (2009) 1911 - U.S. Citizen Sun Yat-Sen Becomes China's First President 1921 - Anna May Wong, First Chinese American Female Hollywood Star 1926 - You Chung Hong Leads the Fight for Chinese American Civil Rights 1935 - Eddy See Initiates Chinese American Artistic Movement
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Social Studies. (2013) Culture series on what makes Hawaii's local "mixing bowl" of ethnic backgrounds. From the arrivals of the first immigrants to today's social and cultural organizations and associations. This episode on Chinese Americans in Hawaii features archival footage of the early Honolulu Harbor and Chinatown fires. Interviews include the Chinese Lion Dance Association, Dr. Franklin Ng (professor at California State University at Fresno Department of Ethnic Studies), and James G.Y. Ho (Hawaiian Chinese Multicultural Museum & Archives).
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Social Studies. (2014) Culture series on what makes Hawaii's local "mixing bowl" of ethnic backgrounds. From the arrivals of the first immigrants to today's social and cultural organizations and associations. This episode on Filipino Americans in Hawaii features archival footage of the early plantation workers, known as sakadas. Interviews include Dr. Belinda A. Aquino (Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa), Dr. Raymund Liongson (Associate Professor & Coordinator of Asian & Philippine Studies at University of Hawaii Leeward Community College), Dr. Vina A. Lanzona (Current Director of the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa), and a visit to the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu.
Celebrating the most epic landscapes on Earth! Mountains and Life journeys to the rooftop places of our world to meet the people who cherish, honour, and fight for them. From farmers, artists, and rescue teams, to scientists, musicians, and monks, this series reveals the different ways these mountain-dwellers have adapted to the high life. Narrated by Matthew Gravelle (Broadchurch), Mountains and Life combines stunning photography with thoughtful storytelling to create an emotional engagement with the soaring peaks of the Himalayas, the Andes, the Alps, and beyond.
Over 1,000 years ago, the scattered islands of Polynesia were settled by an ancient seafaring people. Where did they come from? How did they navigate across the vast Pacific Ocean to settle one-third of Earth's surface? To find out, anthropologist Sam Low visited the tiny coral atoll of Satawal, in Micronesia's remote Caroline Islands, to film Mau Piailug as he guides his canoe by using subtle signs in the waves, winds and stars. In his lofty canoe house he teaches the intricacies of this ancient sea science in a ceremony called "unfolding the mat" by arranging 32 lumps of coral to represent the points of his "star compass." Restored and Remastered: 2013 Original Release: 1983
Audience: All; Subject Areas: Schools. (2019) Numerous DOE schools are named after or attached to Hawaiian Ali'i. What is the story about how and why this happened? What is the connection between the school and the ali'i today? Let's start with learning about Princess Ruth Luka Keanolani Kauanahoahoa Ke'elikokani and Central Intermediate School on O'ahu.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using fingerpaints and a brush, an artist illustrates a Native American story about the sun and the moon. The Sun and the Moon used to live on the earth where the Sioux Indians had set their teepees. But things changed when the two came to realize that they were as different as night and day. They often argued until finally one day they had such a serious argument that the Sun decided to move to the sky. When the Moon found out, it was beside itself with envy and decided to do the same thing. The Sun and the Moon never again exchanged another word and from that time on, the Moon follows the Sun where ever it goes, day after day.
Join Raven, Eagle, and Frog in a land before time! Together they will learn the secret that will release light and life into the world, a secret that might just burn a few feathers as well!
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) An artist uses mixed media, including drawing and cutouts, to illustrate the traditional Cinderella story.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: World Language. What does a small isolated island in the Pacific have to teach the rest of the world? Te Pito O Te Henua: Rapa Nui tells the story of Rapa Nui. It explores the close ties between the Rapa Nui people and the people of Hawaii and how the Polynesian Voyaging Canoe Hokulea played a part in re-establishing the link between these two grand cultures. What can we learn from Rapa Nuis history and its present state? How does Rapa Nui effect how we view ourselves and how we treat our earth? Many lessons are learned in this documentary.
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: General; Subject: Social Studies. (2015) Uluhaimalama tells the little known story of the garden of Queen Lili'uokalani in Pauoa Valley. Now a cemetery this site played a pivotal role in the tumultuous events that surrounded the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. The documentary covers important historical events of the late 19th century, and recounts the story of an extraordinary, nearly forgotten, event in Hawaiian history.
Audience: General; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. May Izumi - Sculpture, Lynn Weiler Liverton - Sculpture
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2019) In this episode: Smart houses, medical wearable devices, total recall, 4 Awesome Discoveries, super speed snowflakes, Quantum Matters, and much more!
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Health, SEL. (2018) Solid scientific evidence has shown the positive effects of mindfulness in school programs. However, teaching young children mindfulness concepts can be challenging. Breathe Like A Bear comes to the rescue, providing an engaging, kid-friendly introduction to mindfulness. This beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises is designed to teach young students techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. These thirty simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: at a child's desk at school, during heavy homework nights at home, or simply in the car on the way to the grocery store. The exercises are broken down into five sections: Be Calm, Focus, Imagine, Make Some Energy, and Relax. Based on Kira Willey's Parents' Choice GOLD Award winner Mindful Moments for Kids, Breathe Like a Bear is sure to help children find calm, gain focus, and feel energized during the day.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject: Social Studies. (2002) Traces the life of Amelia Earhart, who amazed the world with her aviating prowess during the time of the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression, when women were painfully restricted. Nicknamed "Lady Lindy", Amelia's adventurous spirit led her to become the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean. Explores the mystery surrounding her final flight on which she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared.
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.