Instructional Video5:19
TED-Ed

The Fascinating History of Cemeteries

9th - 12th
An irreverently illustrated video history of how human societies have honored their dead is both suitable and thought-provoking for high schoolers in the frame of mind to step back from the sadness of death. Scholars...
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

9th - 12th Standards
The Middle East is known for its unique culture and often divisive cultural boundaries. A video summary, part of the an intriguing playlist about the world's greatest ideas, discusses how Arab civilization and culture has developed over...
Instructional Video5:07
TED-Ed

Who Built Great Zimbabwe? And why?

6th - 12th Standards
It's hard to image that a mystery surrounds the second largest settlement ruins found in Africa. Who built this stone city? Why was it built? What happened to it? Why was it abandoned? A short video explores the controversies surrounding...
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Bhabha’s The Location of Culture

9th - 12th Standards
Is there any such thing as a culture without some degree of hybridization? Homi K. Bhabha maintains that all cultures, particularly post-colonial, experience cultural hybridity that reflect in an individual's personal identity. Learn...
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology

9th - 12th Standards
Claude Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology contends that distance and details separate world cultures—and not much else. High schoolers watch a short explanatory video to learn more about the theory of structuralism, the...
Instructional Video10:54
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1
Crash Course

Human Population Growth

7th - 12th
The total world population is predicted to pass 8 billion by 2025, which is less than 10 years from now. The video focuses on human population growth and the impact it has had and is having on our planet and other populations. It...
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Radio Expeditions

9th - 10th
This resource features past radio stories that probe into interesting features of countries all over the globe.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs:everyday Learning: Let's Eat Dinner

Pre-K - 1st Standards
Follow our narrator as she tries traditional dinners with families from Kenya, Japan, and Lebanon while teaching about friends and foods from other world cultures.