Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2001) Explores the nature of light, focusing on wave theory and particle theory and investigates various modes of light production. Discusses different frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum, including radio waves, infrared rays, the visible spectrum, ultraviolet rays, x-rays, and gamma rays. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfQnBhVHMwYXdiNlU&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2001) Explores the properties of light, discussing how objects reflect and absorb light and exploring the concepts of reflection and refraction. Examines the characteristics of concave and convex mirrors as well as concave and convex lenses. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfQnBhVHMwYXdiNlU&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2001) Investigates sound, how it is produced, how it travels, its specific properties, and its everyday uses. Illustrates sound waves and defines the properties of sound, including frequency, pitch, intensity, loudness, and the Doppler Effect. Explores the various interactions between sound waves, such as the reflection of sound and combining of sounds. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfQnBhVHMwYXdiNlU&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2001) Explores the nature of waves, illustrating different characteristics of waves, including amplitude, wavelength, and frequency. Describes various types of waves, including transverse and longitudinal waves, and explains how the speed of waves is calculated. Examines the interactions between waves, reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfQnBhVHMwYXdiNlU&usp=sharing
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.
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.
Audience: General; Grades: K-12; Subject Areas: Science. The video briefly recounts the eruptive history of Halema'uma'u and describes the formation and continued growth of the current summit vent and lava lake. It features USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists sharing their insights on the summit eruption: how they monitor the lava lake, how and why the lake level rises and falls, why explosive events occur, the connection between Kilauea's ongoing summit and East Rift Zone eruptions, and the impacts of the summit eruption on the Island of Hawai'i and beyond.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject: Career/Life Skills. For high school students, discussions about ethics would typically center on issues like cheating on a test or plagiarism, but, in this four-part series (15 minutes each), the discussion focuses on how ethics affect careers and the workplace. Filmed in a high school government class, students discuss ethical behavior in the arenas of business, government, and science as a way to foster deeper thinking about the ethical dimensions of their life and our society. Students voice their opinions, concerns, and questions about ethical issues, the roles that these issues play in our society, and the affect on potential careers. Part 1: Ethics in Bioresearch; Ethics in Government High school students discuss stem cell research and the Patriot Act.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject: Career/Life Skills. For high school students, discussions about ethics would typically center on issues like cheating on a test or plagiarism, but, in this four-part series (15 minutes each), the discussion focuses on how ethics affect careers and the workplace. Filmed in a high school government class, students discuss ethical behavior in the arenas of business, government, and science as a way to foster deeper thinking about the ethical dimensions of their life and our society. Students voice their opinions, concerns, and questions about ethical issues, the roles that these issues play in our society, and the affect on potential careers. Part 2: Ethics in Cyber-Technology; Ethics in the Media High school students discuss the integrity of cyber-technology and media?s responsibility to citizens.
In the 19th century, America was divided by the Appalachian Mountains allowing the East and West to develop independent of each other, NY Governor DeWitt Clinton proposed building the Erie Canal helping to connect the country while also fueling its growth. He turned to the bankers on Wall Street for help. Shortly thereafter the issuance of bonds by Wall Street would help to build the nations railroads. The bankers on Wall Street even helped the North win the Civil War by providing a steady flow of money. Wall Street was a major contributor to the growth of America.
NASDAQ founded in 1971 made it possible for young, high risk companies to go public creating a role for venture capitalists. Early venture capitalists included Queen Isabella of Spain who funded Christopher Columbus' voyage to the new world and banker JP Morgan who funded Thomas Edison and the electric light. On the NASDAQ, high risk ventures in Silicon Valley could be shared with investors on main street accelerating America's growth.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Social Studies. (2017) Immediately after the end of WWII, Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the United Nations forces, made the assertion that Japan would never be able to return again as a world power. Despite his prediction, Japan ascended into the world's second largest economy in just over two decades. How did Japan achieve this "miraculous" comeback? This episode searches for the answer from newly released documents and audio cassette tapes of leading figures during Japan's rapid economic growth, including politicians, government officials, and business persons.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Social Studies. (2017) In the middle of the 1980's, finance took over the main role in the Japanese economy, and the country headed toward an era of financial capitalism. The Japanese, who became an economic giant eventually, immersed themselves in the money game. Real estate values and stock prices escalated giving birth to a "bubble economy." However, this unprecedented booming economy suddenly "burst," and the foundation of Japan was greatly shaken. What happened to the Japanese after the 1980's when the global economy underwent a major change? This episode spotlights what Japan's bubble economy really was, from interviews with more than 100 key figures of the bubble.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2018) In this episode: Saving songbirds' songs, amazing meta-materials, mantis cam, Awesome con, winners of the Generation Nano competition, a shocking discovery about eels, theu Science of Speed, and much more!
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Describes the interactions between the Earth, sun, and moon. Defines the shape of the Earth, explaining how the Earth's rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun cause day and night and the changing seasons. Explores the characteristics of the sun and moon. Illustrates how the moon revolves around the Earth, creating the moon's different phases, and how the sun is the central point of the solar system. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Explores the inner planets, describes the nebular hypothesis, and illustrates the general design of the solar system. Details the characteristics, rotations and orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Illustrates how these planets travel in elliptical orbits around the sun. Combines graphics and photographs from space to provide images of these inner planets, defining their properties and surface geology. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Reviews the inner planets before traveling to the outer regions of the solar system to explore the outer planets. Combines graphics and photographs from space to detail the characteristics and properties of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Details their moons, orbits, atmospheres, and outer rings. Also describes the asteroid belt and the solar cycle. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Combines graphics and NASA footage to explore outer space and reveal the features of the universe. Illustrates the position of the solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy, highlights several constellations and galaxies, and illustrates the characteristics of stars, comets, meteors, and the sun. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2009) Program 6 This episode of NASA 360 looks at how NASA tests the equipment needed for our return to the moon. Highlights include: the lunar truck Chariot, NASA's All Terrain Hex-limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, or ATHLETE, the rover Scarab and new suits for astronauts.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2009) Find out how NASA technology is being used in your own home.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2010) Find out how NASA and industry are using composite materials to change our world.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2011)
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: STEM. (2015) The Sun The possibilities offered by the Sun in terms of clean, sustainable solar and wind energy seem endless. In fact, new research and technologies might very well be the solution to mankind's current dependency on oil and the social and political harm that tend to result from this dependency.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) The use of tools, equipment, and instruments in science and engineering is vital to acquiring data. Students will learn how and why tools are helpful in science. Concrete examples of common, everyday tools help teach key concepts and use of tools in science.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Tagun, an 11-year-old Korean boy who plays a bamboo flute known as the Tanso. His parents are worried about him because he invests so much time in his favorite instrument that he neglects his homework and his sister.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Peter, who lives in Hong Kong and loves classical music. Peter plays the violin in an orchestra, and sings soprano with a world famous choir. Joins Peter as he prepares for a concert.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Rebecca, a citizen of Hong Kong who plays the butterfly harp. Rebecca and her family share an informal musical improvisation evening with friends, playing traditional instruments.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) An 8 year old boy is learning how to play the taiko drum.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Nikos, a twelve-years-old boy in Athens, Greece. Joins Nikos as he rehearses on his clarino for a concert to be performed on his name day, which, in his country, is as important as a birthday.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Stavros, who lives in Greece and plays the pontiakilira, a kind of lyre. Joins Stavros as he dances in traditional dress at a celebration at the local arts center.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Itamar, who lives in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Itamar explains that all the members of his family play a musical instrument and his specialty is the violin. Itamar and his family perform at his birthday concert.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Twelve-year-old Safi lives in the Galilee and plays the traditional Arab drum known as a darbuka. Safi and his friends have organized a band, but his debut as a musician comes when he plays his darbuka with his father's band.
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: Short loops, letter: e, words: eel, lee.
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: 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 Japanese Americans in Hawaii features archival footage of the Issei (first generation) plantation workers as well as Nissei (second generation) war heroes of the 100th Battalion/442nd Infantry. Interviews include the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Hawaii United Okinawa Association, Dr. Jonathan Okamura (author of The Japanese American Contemporary Experience in Hawai'i) and Dennis Ogawa (author of Jan Ken Po: The World of Hawaii's Japanese Americans).
This train journey across Sri Lanka is a train-lovers trip of a lifetime to Nine Arch Bridge. Traveling along on one of the world?s best-preserved Victorian-era railways we climb to over 6000 feet deep from Columbo to Ella.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-5; Subject: Science. (2006) Defines the fundamental concepts of ecology and identifies the components that create an ecosystem. Describes various types of habitats and explains the role of plants and animals in the formation of biotic communities. Also explains niche ecology and outlines the food chain process. Concludes with a 5-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfY0NVYUZfaHhiRzQ&usp=sharing
For centuries, loko i'a, or fishponds, were a vital part of the Native Hawaiian food system, connecting freshwater sources to the ocean, using rock-wall enclosures to raise and eventually harvest fish. In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of this indigenous way of aquafarming. Kai Piha: Na Loko I'a looks at how four fishponds on O'ahu are being restored.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2018) In this episode: Saving songbirds' songs, amazing meta-materials, mantis cam, Awesome con, winners of the Generation Nano competition, a shocking discovery about eels, theu Science of Speed, and much more!
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Describes the interactions between the Earth, sun, and moon. Defines the shape of the Earth, explaining how the Earth's rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun cause day and night and the changing seasons. Explores the characteristics of the sun and moon. Illustrates how the moon revolves around the Earth, creating the moon's different phases, and how the sun is the central point of the solar system. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Explores the inner planets, describes the nebular hypothesis, and illustrates the general design of the solar system. Details the characteristics, rotations and orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Illustrates how these planets travel in elliptical orbits around the sun. Combines graphics and photographs from space to provide images of these inner planets, defining their properties and surface geology. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Reviews the inner planets before traveling to the outer regions of the solar system to explore the outer planets. Combines graphics and photographs from space to detail the characteristics and properties of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Details their moons, orbits, atmospheres, and outer rings. Also describes the asteroid belt and the solar cycle. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Grades: 6-8; Subject areas: Science. (2003) Combines graphics and NASA footage to explore outer space and reveal the features of the universe. Illustrates the position of the solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy, highlights several constellations and galaxies, and illustrates the characteristics of stars, comets, meteors, and the sun. Concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfYUpZTmhKbkYyejA&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2009) Program 6 This episode of NASA 360 looks at how NASA tests the equipment needed for our return to the moon. Highlights include: the lunar truck Chariot, NASA's All Terrain Hex-limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, or ATHLETE, the rover Scarab and new suits for astronauts.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2009) Find out how NASA technology is being used in your own home.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2010) Find out how NASA and industry are using composite materials to change our world.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2011)