Travels throughout Greece, describing the landscape, history and culture of this ancient country. Tours the city of Athens, exploring historical sites, Greek architecture, and Greek antiquities, including the Acropolis, Parthenon and Meteora Monasteries. Visits Hydra Island, Peloponnesus, and the ruins of the extinct city, Epidaurus. Travels to the ancient cities of Olympia and Corinth and features the art, theater, philosophy, and legends depicting Greek civilization.
Highlights the scenic landscape and natural history of the Aegean Islands. Travels to the islands of Cyclades, Mykonos, Lesbos, and Melos, exploring the history, geography and antiquities of these ancient Greek islands. Visits a number of historical sites that feature the architecture, ruins and fortifications of ancient Greek civilization. Features a hike through the Samaria Gorge and tours the restored Palace of Knossos, discussing the Greek gods and Greek mythology.
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 9-year-old Hed, who lives in Israel. Hed shares her dream of becoming an opera singer. Joins Hed as she sings soprano with the the Tel Aviv Philharmonic Orchestra.
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.
Constantinople, the gateway between East and West was the former epicentre of the Eastern Christian Empire of Byzantium. The Ottoman Empires momentous conquest of these lands began the accelerated rise of one of the greatest Empire's the world has ever known. Under the direction of the Sultan Suleiman the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire begins.
The lands and islands of the Mediterranean played host to some the most extraordinary sieges in European history, including the island of Malta as well as the commercial superpower of the 16th century, Venice. The love/hate relationship between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire exploded into an all out war for control of the Mediterranean.
The iconic Christian victory at Lepanto would lead to the slow and decadent decline of the Ottoman Empire. We are left to reflect on the legacy of the Empire and how this historic clash of civilizations continues to inform the world we live in today.
Visits the ancient Czech Republic. In Bohemia, highlights the city of Prague with its Mala Strana, Staromestske and Josefov quarters and the Moldau River. Travels to Karlstejn Castle and the spa cities of Karlovy Vary and Marinsk Lzne. Features the beer centers of Plzen and Cesk Budejovice, and the castle at Cesk Krumlov. In Moravia, explores underground caves and the city of Brno. Highlights the music, art, baroque architecture, and art nouveau architecture. Also discusses the Hussite movement and the Soviet occupation.
Audience: General, Grades 4-12. Subjects: Social Studies. 1944: D-Day, 1940's (2010)
Audience: General, Grades 4-12. Subjects: Social Studies. 1946: The Nuremberg Trials, 1940's (2010)
DOE Vocational Rehabilitation partnership featuring Farrington High & Waimea High. Interviews with Vocational Rehabilitation staff, Hookipa Workforce Academy partners, and school staff.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2018) In this episode: Saving indigenous languages, bone implants, triceratops gets a cousin, saving the bay, the science of speed and much more!
A major part of cooking involves delivering heat energy to natural things and transforming them to the state where they can be digested and absorbed. This technique does not stop at simply making food taste good. Professor Wrangham of Harvard University says the ability to produce food through heat is what helped humans evolve.
"Power" is about how to change ingredients using physical force. In terms of preserving, texture, convenience, and nutrient intake, this revolutionary cooking method provided the foundation for cultural development
Fermentation is an advanced cooking method of using microorganisms' life activities to cook food, and it can synthesize new components and remove toxicity from food. But because it uses microorganisms, it is a unique cooking method that causes both aversion and preference.
This episode covers the five taste receptors which are sweet, salty, spicy, bitter, and sour. "Why is sugar sweet?" is the wrong question. "Why does sugar taste sweet to us?" is the right question. Taste doesn't exist in things. It is something our brains create. It is a type of antenna that mankind has developed for survival. It is the ability to consume nutrients and avoid poison.
We import a lot of the food we eat. Fortunately for farmers, we export a lot, too. We think of endless lines of trucks streaming in across our southern border bringing in fruits and veggies from Central and South America, and that certainly happens.But for longer trips, larger loads, nothing beats shipping by sea. It's more economical and more ecologically friendly. It provides year-round supply of things we've now come to always expect at the supermarket ? sweet onions, watermelon, citrus. And critically, it gives U.S. farmers expanded markets for their crops. It's also going on 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Giant vessels packed with countless containers and the endless beep and whir of cranes, train cars rumbling, trucks coming and going. You'll be amazed at the impact a port has on agriculture ? and vice versa. And we'll show how all that happens at Port of Savannah, one of the nation's oldest and its third-busiest. That's a lot of cargo ? and it never stops
Most people have never been to a produce trade show. Most people don? t even know they exist! But this is where people who grow food by the ton meet up with people who buy it by the ton. The Southeast Produce Council is a member networking and service organization focused on the Southeastern industry ? but that includes the countless other people around the nation and world who want to do farm business in or with the Southeast! It?s a spectacle of epic proportions ? so much so that this SEPC Southern Exposure convention and expo in Orlando, FL this spring had a super-hero theme.
We pick this one up right where we left off -- with the big sprint to the finish at SEPC Southern Exposure! This is where the rubber meets the road ? a 6-hour extravaganza of pitching and selling and shopping? and sampling, of course! Like alligator sous vide with a spicy mango salsa!?!
Audience: General; Subject: Local businesses. (2017)
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; Subject: Local businesses. (2014) Series on Hawaii's local businesses. This program is about Kodama Koi Farms located in Mililani, Oahu a koi farm specializing in Nishikigoi. For information on Kodama Koi Farms visit their website: http://www.kodamakoifarm.com/
Audience: General; Subject: Local businesses. (2015) Series on Hawaii's local businesses. This program is about Kawamoto Orchid Nursery located in Palolo Valley, Honolulu, Hawaii. For more information visit: http://www.kawamotoorchids.com/
Audience: General; Subject: Local businesses. (2015) Series on Hawaii's local businesses. This program is about Kamiya Papaya Farm, located in Hauula, Windward Oahu, Hawaii. Kamiya papayas are sold across supermarkets on Oahu.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that plants create green environments and that we need to keep our life-support system growing. Understanding what a plant needs helps us to preserve the green environment. Plants are solar powered and do their growing at night. Then chlorophyl turns sunlight into energy to keep our plants growing and give energy to us. Nick shows how celery absorbs water, and warns that we must all learn the conditions that plants need to grow. With his young visitors he plants wheat grass, provides the right environment, and watches the plants grow.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick pounds herbs, then visits a herb garden to show pineapple salvia, the bay tree, rosemary, marjoram, garlic, parsley, thyme, oregano, mint, and lavender. he shows how to pick and store them and also how to use them in food. With two young friends, he demonstrates how to make cheese and herb bread.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick visits a rain forest in the middle of a city. In this botanical garden, a microclimate has been created within the city, a huge greenhouse where no one has to worry about the weather. In the hot tropical, or arid areas, shade greenhouses promote plant growth. In our own home, we can grow tropical plants that would not grow in outside gardens in North America. The potted plants thrive because we have controlled their growing conditions. When Nick grows a terrarium with his young guests, they begin to understand how climate can be controlled to create sub-tropical conditions.
Teacher Greg Harding of Waimea H.S. on Kauai instills in his students aloha aina, the love of the land; take care of the land, and the land will take care of you. With the support of Principal Mahina Anguay, Mr. Harding, a natural resource teacher, and his students created Aloha Garden & Farm on the campus of Waimea H.S. It is here where students learn the principles and actions of farming and sustainability and make the practice of aloha aina a reality.
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.
At 'Iolani Palace in Honolulu you step back into Hawai'i's royal past, relive the story of Hawai'i's kings and queens, and explore the palace King Kalakaua built in 1882.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. (1999) Marks draws a 3-level ice cream iceberg while demonstrating the Renaissance words shading and contour. The Web Wizard shows sites for instructions on balloon animals. At the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Mark views the painting "Oranges in Tissue Paper."
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. (1999) Mark draws a praying mantis while demonstrating the Renaissance words shadow and horizon. He describes Roy Lichtenstein's painting, "Picture and Pitcher" from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Guest artist Doug Dubosque draws a big bug.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Guest artist Jodi Endicott incorporates the element of style in a shoe sculpture made of aluminum foil.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Guest artist Terry Taube demonstrates symbolism in a project making a plaster mold, casting paper pulp, and creating paper masks.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject: Fine Arts. (2011) At beautiful Makapu'u on O'ahu, award winning artist Mark Brown shows how to create an "en plein air" painting at the cliffs of Makapu'u overlooking the scenic Waimamalo shoreline.
Video about the "Dirt" Show at the Museum of Art (2014)
Audience: General; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. Donna E. Shimazu - Jewelry Arts, Gordon Uyehara - Jewelry Arts / Sculpture, Lori Uyehara - Mixed-Media / Painting,
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2006) This documentary highlights several of Hawai`i's most prominent artists. Each 25-minute segment features two artists who work in the same medium. They share their views and philosophy, and discuss technique and style.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2006) This documentary highlights several of Hawai`i's most prominent artists. Each 25-minute segment features two artists who work in the same medium. They share their views and philosophy, and discuss technique and style.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2018) In this episode: Saving indigenous languages, bone implants, triceratops gets a cousin, saving the bay, the science of speed and much more!
A major part of cooking involves delivering heat energy to natural things and transforming them to the state where they can be digested and absorbed. This technique does not stop at simply making food taste good. Professor Wrangham of Harvard University says the ability to produce food through heat is what helped humans evolve.
"Power" is about how to change ingredients using physical force. In terms of preserving, texture, convenience, and nutrient intake, this revolutionary cooking method provided the foundation for cultural development
Fermentation is an advanced cooking method of using microorganisms' life activities to cook food, and it can synthesize new components and remove toxicity from food. But because it uses microorganisms, it is a unique cooking method that causes both aversion and preference.
This episode covers the five taste receptors which are sweet, salty, spicy, bitter, and sour. "Why is sugar sweet?" is the wrong question. "Why does sugar taste sweet to us?" is the right question. Taste doesn't exist in things. It is something our brains create. It is a type of antenna that mankind has developed for survival. It is the ability to consume nutrients and avoid poison.
We import a lot of the food we eat. Fortunately for farmers, we export a lot, too. We think of endless lines of trucks streaming in across our southern border bringing in fruits and veggies from Central and South America, and that certainly happens.But for longer trips, larger loads, nothing beats shipping by sea. It's more economical and more ecologically friendly. It provides year-round supply of things we've now come to always expect at the supermarket ? sweet onions, watermelon, citrus. And critically, it gives U.S. farmers expanded markets for their crops. It's also going on 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Giant vessels packed with countless containers and the endless beep and whir of cranes, train cars rumbling, trucks coming and going. You'll be amazed at the impact a port has on agriculture ? and vice versa. And we'll show how all that happens at Port of Savannah, one of the nation's oldest and its third-busiest. That's a lot of cargo ? and it never stops
Most people have never been to a produce trade show. Most people don? t even know they exist! But this is where people who grow food by the ton meet up with people who buy it by the ton. The Southeast Produce Council is a member networking and service organization focused on the Southeastern industry ? but that includes the countless other people around the nation and world who want to do farm business in or with the Southeast! It?s a spectacle of epic proportions ? so much so that this SEPC Southern Exposure convention and expo in Orlando, FL this spring had a super-hero theme.
We pick this one up right where we left off -- with the big sprint to the finish at SEPC Southern Exposure! This is where the rubber meets the road ? a 6-hour extravaganza of pitching and selling and shopping? and sampling, of course! Like alligator sous vide with a spicy mango salsa!?!
Audience: General; Subject: Local businesses. (2017)
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.