This video introduces the world of the Igbo, whose civilization is threatened by the colonial advances of the British into their lands in Nigeria. You'll see this native world in all its logic, beauty, and problems, and then watch it...

Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt...

This video introduces the world of high Islamic culture, lowbrow comedy, and encounters with the spirit world, all through the stories of the brave Shahrazad, who saves her own life, her husband's sanity, the kingdom, and all of her...

Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers Popol Vuh, a Mayan text that combines history and myth. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on Popol Vuh. Read an excerpt from the work...

Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the novel. Read an excerpt from the work and find...

A series of seven instructional, hour-long videos presenting Earth-science topics such as plate tectonics, oceans, climate changes, natural resources, the Sun, and the future of our planet. Closed captioning option provided for each video.

Explore the European region and consider what makes a successful city and how effective is supranationalism? A video features Berlin and Amsterdam for urban development and then looks into the concept of supranationalism in the European...

Russia's geography reveals great disparity and lends itself to a variety of cultures and relationships across its six and a half million square miles. A video investigates two urban developments in Russia, St. Petersburg and Dagestan,...

Media-rich site featuring sub Saharan Africa. Discover effects of apartheid on the region's land and understand the impact society, politics, and geography has on the area's resources. With AIDS, malaria, and other maladies running...

Media-rich site address the ongoing conflicts in Jerusalem, Israel and the limitations of natural resources throughout Egypt due to the nation's dependence upon the Nile River. Understand the relationship between human identity and...

Media-rich site that explores North America. The first part of this workshop focuses on the general human behavior in urban settings looking for and interpreting those patterns. The second portion draws attention to urban issues such as...

A course workshop looks into the trends of migration in Latin America and then identifies how geographic surroundings impact human movement. Part I of the video addresses annual Mayan migration to Guatemala. Part II introduces a volcano...

Read and listen to stories with some words missing. Fill in the missing words, see how many words you spelled correctly, and get corrections for the ones you missed.

Challenge yourself to write a plot plan of a perspective drawing. This article begins with an example and then challenges you to do one on your own.

Think through what you would view as you ride around this park on a train. You are given a topographical view of a park and asked to put the pictures in order of what you would see as you ride around the park.

Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...

Learn how map projections and chronological constructs are used in the study of world history and help us to understand and interpret the past. Part of a larger site on world history, this unit on maps offers complete reading,...

This biography features Mark Twain as a regional realist author, world renown for his ability to portray real Americans in the late nineteenth century. Click "Mark Twain Activities" for artifacts and activities.

This resource offers a brief biography of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur highlighting his documentation of life and travels in "Letters From an American Farmer." See "J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Activities" for related materials.

American Passages presents a concise biography of nineteenth century progressive American poet, Walt Whitman. See "Walt Whitman Activities" for artifacts and activities.

This brief biography of James Fenimore Cooper highlights his life as an author who was able to incorporate politics, wilderness and Native Americans into fictitious novels. Click on "James Fenimore Cooper Activities" for related materials.

A collection of videos focused on American civics. Included with videos are activities, readings and additional resources.

A video collection introducing the fundamental elements of psychology.

Learn the steps in the 5-step process that historians use when they analyze an artifact as you investigate what you can learn from Native American and other items.