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Creating Videos in Social Studies Classes
Educators, discover how and why you should incorporate the production of video into social studies classes, and how your students can make a real impact in the world around them by using these skills to become citizen journalists.
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Best Practice use of Media When Teaching Geography
Renee Shaw introduces educators who share their tips and tricks for successfully using media in their social studies classes when teaching geography.
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Inquiry Based Learning with Digital Media
Educators, learn how to plan and facilitate inquiry based learning approaches with digital media & technologies in the social studies classroom.
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Questioning Techniques for Talking About Media
In this video educators will learn how to develop questioning skills in their students by learning how to effectively ask questions of sources.
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Media Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom
Educators, discover how media literacy can be taught/learned within all social studies classes.
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Robotics and Agriculture
“Robots and Agriculture” discusses the field of robotics and how it applies to medicine, industry, and, specifically, agriculture.
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Determine Fact and Opinion
Determine Fact and Opinion defines fact and opinion, explains the difference between the two, and gives examples of statements that are facts and opinions.
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Costs and Benefits
“Costs and Benefits” defines and gives examples of costs and benefits, including external costs and benefits.
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Interest Rates
Interest Rates discusses interest, defines interest rate, and shares examples of how to calculate simple interest.
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The Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam discusses the history, construction, and physical features of the Hoover Dam.
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Sahara Desert and Berber Culture
Sahara Desert and Berber Culture explains how the Sahara Desert affects the culture of the Berber people by exploring what life is like for the people who live there.
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Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic Fracturing explains what hydraulic fracturing is and why it is a highly controversial process by explaining the advantages and disadvantages of fracking.
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Space-Time Compression
Space-Time Compression examines how the speed of transportation and communication brings places closer together.
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Deforestation
Deforestation explains how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence the environment and daily lives of people by analyzing the causes and effects of and solutions for deforestation.
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Voting Matters
Voting Matters explains how voting in a democracy helps change rules and laws.
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Forms of Advertising
Forms of Advertising defines advertising and discusses the forms and purposes of advertising.
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The Three-Fifths Compromise Explained: US History Review
Ready to get nauseous over some ugly US History? The Constitutional Convention's 3/5ths Compromise broken down so you can understand it for school, for a test or for life.
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The Gettysburg Address: A Reading
The Gettysburg Address with titles. (and a little acoustic strumming). Uploaded on November 19, 2018, 155 years to the day after Abraham Lincoln delivered it.
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Bacon's Rebellion Explained: US History Review
What led to Bacon's Rebellion? How did it end and what were the consequences? All this and more when you click the magic button!
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Triangular Trade Explained
What was Colonial Mercantilism when you boil it down to its basics? Perfect for students, life long learners and the cray cray on the internets.
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The Preamble to the Constitution for Dummies
The first in the "Constitution for Dummies" series. A simple, straightforward reading of the Preamble of the United States Constitution with a little bit of chuckle and context. The Constitution Explained Series. 48 Videos, 6.5 Hours...
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The Compromise of 1850 Explained: US History Review
HipHughes takes you through what you need to know about the elusive Compromise of 1850.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act Explained: US History Review
Find out the skinny on the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in 1882 and a superb example of nativism and xenophobia.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion Explained
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion? How was the United States involved? Learn about the invasion that sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis and defined US_Cuban relations for more than five decades. Cuban Missile Crisis • The Cuban Missile......