Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: World Cultures. (2015) Kashmir: Lost Paradise The trials and tribulations of the people of this war-torn mountainous region, still fought over today by India and its neighbor Pakistan.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces 11-year-old Gaby, who plays the zither, one of the oldest instruments in the world. After school, she likes to go to the local music academy to try out other instruments. She gives a recital on her zither at the village fair.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Introduces Elie, who plays the oud, a Lebanese flute. He accidentally breaks the oud's body and takes it to the instrument maker's workshop. While waiting for his oud to be repaired, Elie tries out other ouds, each of which has its own unique sound.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: History, Cultures. (2002) In the conflict between Carthage and Rome, Hannibal decided to surprise the Romans with a land attack. He got elephants across the Rhone, went through the Alps, conquered Roman cities and reached the south of Rome. Addresses the cross pollinization of cultures that took place. Uses three dimensional graphics to illustrate what the buildings would have looked like in Rome. Describes the walls of Rome, Hannibal's retreat and Scipio Africanus' victory at Carthage. Details archaeologists' search for and success in finding a Punic settlement, "Hannibal's quarters" at the bottom of Bursa.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: History, Cultures. (2002) Explains that Turkey has been the locations of numerous civilizations: Hittite, Roman and Byzantine. Highlights Byzantium with the Karnak obelisque; Aphrodisias, an important city in the Greek/Roman era; Pamukkale known for its basin of limestone; Hierapolis which was populated by Greeks, Romans and Jews; and Gordion, the capital of Phrygia and home of the legendary King Midas. Uses three dimensional graphics to illustrate the Temple at Luxor and the citadel at Hattushash.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2019)
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: History. (2003) Describes how the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers affected the early Mesopotamian civilization. Looks at the food, tools, and pottery of the early Mesopotamians as well as their innovations, which include irrigation, the wheel, clay pottery, clay bricks, and cuneiform writing. Explores the social structure of Mesopotamian society. Describes Sumerian culture and religious beliefs. Discusses the rise of Agadian King Sargon, who unified all of Mesopotamia, and the Sumerian King Ur-Nammu, who wrote the first code of laws.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: History. (2003) Chronicles the rise and fall of ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia. Discusses the Babylonian civilization, Hammurabi's reign, and Hammurabi's code of law. Chronicles the history of Babylonian invasions by the Hittites, Kassites, Elamites, and Assyrians. Shows how the Assyrian territory expanded under the rule of Tiglath Pileser the First, Sargon II, and Esarhaddon. Discusses the Chaldean conquer of Assyria and Nebuchanezzar's rule, during which he ordered the siege of Jerusalem and built the hanging gardens of Babylon. Tells the story of Alexander the Great's conquer of Babylon on the way to Persia, after which he established it as his capital city. Also discusses modern day Iraq and the Persian Gulf War.
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.
It began when revolutionaries stormed a prison called the Bastille. What were the underlying causes for the revolution? What was the Reign of Terror? Who was Maximilian de Robespierre? Then we take a look at the aftermath of the French Revolution and the impact it had on other political ideologies and governments to better understand why this dramatic period was so important in history.
We begin with the birth of the Nation and what led to the Declaration of Independence. How is it that thirteen small colonies in North America were able to succeed ? against a global power such as Great Britain? Learn about the seven-year war, the Boston Tea Party and the origin of the Declaration of Independence. Concepts such as triangular trade, the Founding Fathers, separatists and federalists are presented. Once the War of Independence was won, why did it take years to write the Constitution? And what was life like afterwards, and how did Native Americans and slaves fare? It is these events that shaped the America of today.
The Russian Revolution, actually two rebellions, was a revolution that destroyed the Tsarist autocracy, and helped create the Soviet Union. Learn about Lenin, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism, and acute poverty. All of which led to a revolution, a coup d??tat and a civil war.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) A mixed media artist tells a tale from India about a boy who can't resist eating a tray of eight cakes he was to take to his master, the monk Luntika.
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: 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.
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.
Quick, how to you spell sweetpotato? If you think we just did it wrong, think again ? that's the scientific way. And if you grow sweetpotatoes in North Carolina, that matters. And what North Carolina sweetpotato growers think matters because they grow more than two-thirds of the U.S. sweetpotato crop! How did one state become so dominant in a single industry? Believe it or not, tobacco played a role...
Tobacco was the crop that built not just North Carolina agriculture, but the entire state. It supported universities, hospitals and created opportunities for growth that have made North Carolina one of the fasted growing states in the nation. But as word spread about tobacco, that market went into a steep decline. Amazingly, sweetpotatoes like the same land, the same equipment, the same workers ? it was a natural transition. So much so that today North Carolina grows over two-thirds of the U.S. sweetpotato crop!
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 explains that fruit are full of vitamins and minerals and that they keep us healthy. He even shows a pawpaw that is full of seeds, the kind of seeds that birds love to transport to other new locations. Nick explains that a flower is food-making factory that eventually ends up inside a fruit. That's why any vegetables with seeds are really a kind of fruit. Nuts are fruit as well because they contain seeds. Certain fruits like banannas and oranges only grow in tropical fruits. There are even cannonball fruit, dragon fruit, chocolate pudding fruits, buddha's hand fruit and finger limes. Nick believes that citrus fruits are some of the healthiest fruits on earth. With his young friends, he shows how to make lemonade.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that plants survive predatory animals by developing spines and thorns for protection. Other plants, especially orchids, develop camouflage techniques to survive. Others grow tendrils to find food. Some like the venus flytrap actually trap their victims. Nick shows his young friends how to create a new venus flytrap by planting a venus flytrap leaf.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) A watercolor artist illustrates the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs. Max wants to play ball with his father, but his father has to finish his work first. To teach Max that he should never put off until tomorrow what he can do today, he tells him the classic story of the Three Little Pigs, who leave home in search of adventure. They each build a house, but only the house of the eldest brother, the hardest worker, resists the attack of the big bad wolf.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using color transparencies and pen and ink drawings, an artist illustrates the traditional tale of the Pied Piper who rid the town of Hamelin from its problem with rats. When the Mayor refuses to pay him the agreed fee, the Piper plays a very cheerful tune on his pipes luring away all the boys and girls of Hamelin. The Mayor looks for him in despair and when he finds him, begs his forgiveness, pays him what his due, and the children return to Hamelin.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using modeling clay, an artist illustrates the story of the tin soldier. For Christmas Margaret's Granddad gives her the figures of a ballerina and a one-legged tin soldier joined together on a base shaped like a heart and tells her the story of how they became united forever. A little boy with lots of toys and tin soldiers didn't know that they all came to life at night. His bravest soldier, his one-legged tin soldier, falls in love with a ballerina, but one night he is accidentally blown off the window sill and sets out upon a perilous journey through gutters, sewers and the sea until he ends up in a fish's tummy. The fish is caught and sold at the market to his former owner's mother. This is how he is reunited with the ballerina. But when she is blown off the mantelpiece into the flames, he dives in after her. The slow fire melts the two figures into one and is saved in the nick of time by the boy.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) An artist using chocolate, frosting, and cutouts, illustrates the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel.
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.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick is amazed that flowers come in so many shapes and sizes and that insects help to produce new flowers. He observes perennials and annuals, including the oriental poppy that encourages insects to pollinate its flower. Nick itemizes the requirements for healthy flowers, and observes unusual flowers that even trap insects. He shows his young guests how to preserve flowers by pressing them.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2006 )Pat Ekstrand, Watercolor artist, Printmaker and committed Educator. This short biography explores her art work, reflecting on an extraordinary life and a Hawaii of our past.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-8; Subject: Music. (1998) Duquan lives in Harlem where he sings gospel music every Sunday in his parish church and dreams of becoming a rap star someday.
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.
Audience: General; Subject: Local businesses. (2017)
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-5; Subject: Social Studies. Why Maui Snares the Sun Long ago, Kala (the sun) raced across the sky as he pleased, leaving the land and its people with short days and long, dark nights. Among those suffering from the lack of daylight was the goddess Hina, mother of Maui, the demigod. In order to make things pono (right), Maui summons all his courage and travels to the highest summit of Haleakala where he confronts the Mighty Kala.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-5; Subject: Social Studies. Pele, the primal force of volcanic heat and lava, leaves her ancient home of Kahiki and searches out a new home for herself and her family. As she travels down the Hawaiian island chain, she is pursued by and battles her eldest sister Namaka, the goddess of water and the sea. After a climactic battle on the island of Maui, she finally finds refuge in Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai'i.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-5; Subject: Social Studies. K`hau, a young Menehune boy, and his best friend, a little `elepaio bird, discover that a group of men has been killing the birds of the Kaua`i rainforest in order to harvest their feathers faster. K`hau and `Elepaio seek out the Menehune Chief and his warriors to help save their friends and find a way to change the habits of these men or risk losing the beautiful birds forever.
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.
It was the purrrfect idea for making our furry friends more pleasant around the house! You'll learn how kitty litter clawed its way into our homes. And you'll learn how a garment made out of special woven fibers can stop a bullet, plus, why is walking under a ladder bad luck? And finally, we'll cut to the chase and explain the history behind this common phrase!
It's been sweetening America for almost 40 years! Now, find out the truth behind how SWEET N LOW actually got its name! And why do we yell shotgun when getting into a car with friends? Then, is it really bad luck to open an umbrella in the house? And, learn the salty truth on how the potato chip was invented out of anger!
Quick, how to you spell sweetpotato? If you think we just did it wrong, think again ? that's the scientific way. And if you grow sweetpotatoes in North Carolina, that matters. And what North Carolina sweetpotato growers think matters because they grow more than two-thirds of the U.S. sweetpotato crop! How did one state become so dominant in a single industry? Believe it or not, tobacco played a role...
Tobacco was the crop that built not just North Carolina agriculture, but the entire state. It supported universities, hospitals and created opportunities for growth that have made North Carolina one of the fasted growing states in the nation. But as word spread about tobacco, that market went into a steep decline. Amazingly, sweetpotatoes like the same land, the same equipment, the same workers ? it was a natural transition. So much so that today North Carolina grows over two-thirds of the U.S. sweetpotato crop!
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 explains that fruit are full of vitamins and minerals and that they keep us healthy. He even shows a pawpaw that is full of seeds, the kind of seeds that birds love to transport to other new locations. Nick explains that a flower is food-making factory that eventually ends up inside a fruit. That's why any vegetables with seeds are really a kind of fruit. Nuts are fruit as well because they contain seeds. Certain fruits like banannas and oranges only grow in tropical fruits. There are even cannonball fruit, dragon fruit, chocolate pudding fruits, buddha's hand fruit and finger limes. Nick believes that citrus fruits are some of the healthiest fruits on earth. With his young friends, he shows how to make lemonade.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that plants survive predatory animals by developing spines and thorns for protection. Other plants, especially orchids, develop camouflage techniques to survive. Others grow tendrils to find food. Some like the venus flytrap actually trap their victims. Nick shows his young friends how to create a new venus flytrap by planting a venus flytrap leaf.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) A watercolor artist illustrates the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs. Max wants to play ball with his father, but his father has to finish his work first. To teach Max that he should never put off until tomorrow what he can do today, he tells him the classic story of the Three Little Pigs, who leave home in search of adventure. They each build a house, but only the house of the eldest brother, the hardest worker, resists the attack of the big bad wolf.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using color transparencies and pen and ink drawings, an artist illustrates the traditional tale of the Pied Piper who rid the town of Hamelin from its problem with rats. When the Mayor refuses to pay him the agreed fee, the Piper plays a very cheerful tune on his pipes luring away all the boys and girls of Hamelin. The Mayor looks for him in despair and when he finds him, begs his forgiveness, pays him what his due, and the children return to Hamelin.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) Using modeling clay, an artist illustrates the story of the tin soldier. For Christmas Margaret's Granddad gives her the figures of a ballerina and a one-legged tin soldier joined together on a base shaped like a heart and tells her the story of how they became united forever. A little boy with lots of toys and tin soldiers didn't know that they all came to life at night. His bravest soldier, his one-legged tin soldier, falls in love with a ballerina, but one night he is accidentally blown off the window sill and sets out upon a perilous journey through gutters, sewers and the sea until he ends up in a fish's tummy. The fish is caught and sold at the market to his former owner's mother. This is how he is reunited with the ballerina. But when she is blown off the mantelpiece into the flames, he dives in after her. The slow fire melts the two figures into one and is saved in the nick of time by the boy.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Language Arts, Fine Arts. (2007) An artist using chocolate, frosting, and cutouts, illustrates the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel.
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.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick is amazed that flowers come in so many shapes and sizes and that insects help to produce new flowers. He observes perennials and annuals, including the oriental poppy that encourages insects to pollinate its flower. Nick itemizes the requirements for healthy flowers, and observes unusual flowers that even trap insects. He shows his young guests how to preserve flowers by pressing them.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. (2006 )Pat Ekstrand, Watercolor artist, Printmaker and committed Educator. This short biography explores her art work, reflecting on an extraordinary life and a Hawaii of our past.