Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Dr. Thomas Walker

9th - 10th
Video segment presents a discussion of early explorer Dr. Thomas Walker and the settlement of Kentucky. Walker's journal is used to document his expeditions and their importance in settling the area west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Hensley Settlement

9th - 10th
This video segment from the KET series Kentucky Life visits the Hensley Settlement in the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park., a pioneer community.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Indian Pride: Spirituality, Part 3

9th - 10th
A member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana performs traditional music through singing, flutes, and other instruments.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: Keeping Cultures Alive Today

9th - 10th
This segment shows ways in which today's Cherokees are transmitting the remnants of their culture to the younger generation in an attempt to preserve what is left.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: A Visit to New Echota

9th - 10th
A tour of the New Echota Historic Site in Gordon County in Georgia points out the aspects of Cherokee culture that paralleled that of whites. It was here that Sequoyah developed the Cherokee alphabet giving Cherokees a written language.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: Chief William Mc Intosh, a Georgia Biography

9th - 10th
William McIntosh, the son of a Creek woman and a Scotsman and called "white warrior", fought with the Americans during the War of 1812 and was given the rank of general.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: Archaeology

9th - 10th
An archaeologist takes us on a dig at Raccoon Ridge near Madison, in Morgan County and uncovers the tiniest artifacts in order to understand how the earliest Georgians lived.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: The Trail of Tears

9th - 10th
Cherokee Indians were rounded up by U.S. soldiers and herded into stockades until all were assembled after the treaty ending Cherokee pressence was signed. Mavis Doering recounts the words she heard from her grandmother who was on the...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Native America: Inca Origins

9th - 10th
A temple at the center of Cuzco, Peru, called Qorikancha, marks the place of Inca origins and it is the primary temple of the sun god Inti.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Israeli and Palestinian Teen Deaths Escalate Tensions in the Middle East

9th - 10th
Israeli and Palestinian Teen Deaths Escalate Tensions in the Middle East Bring students the latest news on the increased tension between Israelis and Palestinians with this PBS NewsHour video and educational resource from July 7, 2014.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: The Westward Movement, Part I

9th - 10th
Georgia's economic development was quickly advanced by a gold rush during the 1830s which led to greater demand for land in Georgia and multiple Native American tribes being sent on the Trail of Tears.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Nova: How Do You Get to the Moon?

9th - 10th
This video details the three competing mission plans considered for landing a manned spacecraft on the lunar surface and focuses on how the Moon's low-gravity conditions and lack of atmosphere influenced the design and manufacture of the...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: Shady Grove/bandyrowe

K - 1st
In this video folksinger Jean Ritchie performs the Appalachian tune "Shady Grove," a traditional song she learned from her family and "Bandyrowe," a song for which she made up verses to help get her two sons to sleep when they were very...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: The Two Gals

K - 1st
In this video, storyteller Anndrena Belcher tells the story of two sisters, one kind and compassionate, the other lazy and greedy, and their separate adventures in a land they discover at the bottom of their well.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Foo Boo Woo Boo John

K - 1st
Watch a demonstration of how to play the jaw harp as an expert musician performs "Foo Boo Woo Boo John," a traditional folk song that came to America from England.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Derby Ram

K - 1st
Listen to a performance of the English-American song "Derby Ram", a purported favorite of George Washington, for a group of students who sing, stomp, and clap along.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Early America: Cluck Old Hen/i Had a Rooster

K - 1st
Listen to two folk songs about animals in traditional Southern style both featuring the banjo, a traditional gourd banjo on "Cluck Old Hen" and today's steel-string banjo on "I Had a Rooster." Discussion about the gourd banjo's origins...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Palestrina

9th - 10th
After a brief introduction to Renaissance music and the composer, key characteristics of Renaissance music is discussed.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: About the Pavane

9th - 10th
This video explains the purpose and form of the Pavane, an Elizabethan processional dance.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: About the Bransle

9th - 10th
This video explains the purpose and structure of the Maltese Bransle, a country dance that was popular in the courts of England and France during the Renaissance.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Bransle

9th - 10th
In this video viewers watch as Kentucky students perform the Maltese Bransle, a country dance that was popular in the royal courts of France and England during the Renaissance.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Pavane

9th - 10th
In this video viewers watch as Kentucky students dance the Pavane, a processional dance from the Renaissance.
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Chris Layton: Historical Interpretation: Point of View and Bias

5th - 8th Standards
A flipped lesson identifying the concepts of historical interpretation with a specific focus on point of view and bias. [8:00]