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| Teen Kids News, #922TEEN KIDS NEWS is a dynamic television news program for teens and pre-teens by teens. This half-hour weekly program provides information and news to students in a way that's educational, as well as entertaining. The focus of the program is young people, so all the stories are in their words. This program inserts the clear, informed voice of students into the adult-dominated media...and provides a unique perspective that is not currently available on network news programs. Weekly reader provides educational content, and works with teachers nationwide to download scripts to teach public speaking, reading, and writing skills.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Gladbeck HostagesEvery decade has its share of important events. But this completely engrossing series highlights only the best, the most far-reaching, the most worldly, and the most consequential of the 1980s.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The U.S. Enters World War IIAboard a Liberty ship, George says that many Americans--the isolationists--once again wanted their country to stay out of the war. The United States did not join the Allies against the Axis until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands in 1941.Grades 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Mexico I: Chichen ItzaThe ancient Mayan civilization was indigenous to present day Central America and southern Mexico. Its chief city for nearly a millennium and a major Mayan archeological site is located on the Yucatan Peninsula--it is Chichen Itza.Grades 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Malden Mills ISome analysts say there is little room for moral decision-making in the marketplace.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Vietnam Revolution 1945 IVThe defeat of Japan was near in 1945, and the United States had to decide whether to permit the French to return to power in Vietnam.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Social Impact of Martin Luther IWithout a doubt the Protestant Reformation had a profound impact on religion, but Martin Luther's rebellion of faith also inspired a social revolution.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Mexico VII: Aztecs 2--Religion and RitualsIn the early decades of the 1500s, Spanish explorers, or Conquistadors, moved from the Caribbean coast into central Mexico. There they encountered the Aztecs, a deeply religious people with a complex structure of rites and ceremonies.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Temple of ArtemisThe colossal temple of Artemis in the port city of Ephesus blended the size of Greek architecture and the decorative style of the East. It was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.Grades 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Columbus and His Voyages IVHaving discovered a New World--which ironically he never firmly acknowledged as being anything but East Asia--Christopher Columbus left a mixed and controversial legacy.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
