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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 |
| Battle of the Bulge IDetermined to take back the initiative, Adolf Hitler and his generals launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in the winter of 1944. The Bulge had appeared once again.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Battle of the Bulge IIWell, it was not as if they had not done it before. Each time, 1914, 1940 and 1944 the Allies were unprepared for an attack through the Ardennes Forest. This time the Bulge almost burst.Grades 9-12 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 |
| TC 1990: Apartheid--Beginning of the EndOn February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela and other South African black leaders were released from jail. This was the beginning of the end of South Africa’s brutal regime of apartheid.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Afghanistan IIIThe history of British imperial interference in 19th Century Afghanistan is replete with useless wars, miscues, mismanagement, ineptitude and disastrous choices. Afghanistan’s attitude toward the outside world is in many ways shaped by this record of incompetence.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
