THE ANNENBERG VIDEO SERIES
A Biography of America at
http://learner.org/resources/series123.html#
is an exceptional video instructional series for high
school and college students produced by WGBH Boston in
cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National
Archives and Records Administration. These thirty minute
lectures incorporate first person narratives, photographs,
film footage and documents related to various historical
time periods (Twenty-six lectures listed below) .
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·
New
World Encounters * Industrial
Supremacy
·
English
Settlement *
The New City
·
Growth and
Empire * The
West
·
The Coming of
Independence * Capital and Labor
·
A New System of Government * TR and
Wilson
·
Westward Expansion *
A Vital Progressivism
·
The Rise of Capitalism
* The Twenties
·
The Reform Impulse
* FDR and the Depression
·
Slavery
*World War II
·
The Coming of the Civil War *The
Fifties
·
The Civil
War
*The Sixties
·
Reconstruction
*Contemporary History
·
America at Its Centennial
*The Redemptive Imagination
Additional Series
Democracy in America,
a video course for high school civics teachers covers
topics of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions
recommended by The Civics Framework for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress developed by the U.S.
Department of Education. Also appropriate for high
school and college students as an introductory or
concluding lecture. The 15 half-hour video programs,
hosted by national television correspondent Renée
Poussaint, and related print and Web site materials
provide inservice and preservice teachers with both
cognitive and experiential learning in civics education.
http://learner.org/resources/series173.html#
Bridging
World History
is a multimedia course for secondary school and college
teachers (Also
appropriate for high school and college students as an
introductory or concluding lecture)
that looks at global patterns through time — seeing
history as an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a
general chronological order, but each is examined through
a thematic lens, showing how people and societies
experience both integration and differences. The course
consists of 26 units (half-hour video, interactive Web
activities, and print materials) that can be explored at
either introductory levels or as more advanced study. The
course videos feature interviews with leading world
history textbook authors and nationally known historians.
The Web site includes an archive of over 1000 primary
source documents and artifacts, journal articles from the
Journal of World History and other publications,
and a thematic interactive activity on interrelationships
across time and place. Topics include:
http://learner.org/resources/series197.html#program_descriptions
American
Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course. The video programs,
print guides, and Web site place literary movements and
authors within the context of history and culture. The
course takes an expanded view of American literary
movements, bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing
the continuity among them. The materials, which are
coordinated with the Norton Anthology of American
Literature, can be used as the basis of a one or
two-semester college-level course or for teacher
professional development.
http://learner.org/resources/series164.html
The
Social Studies in Action teaching practices
library, professional development guide, and companion Web
site bring to life the National Council for the Social
Studies standards. Blending content and methodology, the
video library documents 24 teachers and their students in
K-12 classrooms across the country actively exploring the
social studies. Lively, provocative, and educationally
sound, these lessons are designed to inspire thoughtful
conversations and reflections on teaching practices in the
social studies.
http://learner.org/resources/series166.html