Measurement and Unit Conversion: Unit Conversion Factors of Time: Hours, Minutes and Seconds
This clip presents unit conversion problems involving sleep that can be solved by utilizing unit equivalences for seconds to minutes and minutes to hours, and then either multiplying or dividing.
Measurement and Unit Conversion: Unit Conversion and Cancellation
This clip takes the student through the process of solving problems involving unit equivalences for time. As part of this process, it introduces a number of important terms and concepts, including unit conversion and uni..
Measurement and Unit Conversion: Units of Measurement and Denominate Numbers
This clip talks about the important role measurement plays in daily life. The clip also explains that denominate numbers, which consist of a number and a unit, are used whenever something is measured. Finally, the clip m..
Meeting Ground, The: Anti-Chinese Sentiments
When the Transcontinental Railroad is completed, Chinese laborers settle in cities like San Francisco to work in such industries as shoe- or cigar-making. This causes such deep resentment among white laborers that Chines..
Meeting Ground, The: Chinese Migration, The
Like generations of immigrants before them, the Chinese cross the Pacific looking for a better life than they could hope to find in their homeland. Relatively few arrive in California before the Gold Rush, but after 1848..
Meeting Ground, The: Homestead Act of 1862 Encourages Western Settlement
After the Civil War millions of new settlers crowd into the West from eastern parts of the United States. Most of the new settlers are native born, but over two million are European-born immigrants. The federal governmen..
Meeting Ground, The: Mexican-American Experience, The
Spanish-speaking communities scattered throughout the Southwest are also transformed by the arrival of Anglo-American immigrants. Despite the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo's guarantee of equal citizenship, there is widespr..
Meeting Ground, The: Violence Against Chinese Grows
In order to survive in an unfriendly atmosphere, Chinese immigrants bond together, often living in enclaves referred to as Chinatowns. This protective gesture creates a new round of stereotypes about who they are and wha..
Meeting Ground, The: West's Long History as a Meeting Ground, The
To many 19h century Americans the West is a vast untamed frontier, a place were rugged pioneers are carving out a new social order. In reality the Great Plains of the United States has been a meeting ground for thousands..
Meeting Ground, The: Western Tribes, The
Indian tribes inhabited Western lands long before other groups begin to venture into the territory, some since their ancestors crossed the Bering Straits 12.000-14.000 B.C. Others like the Cherokees and Creeks are forcib..