A world without borders: what is happening with globalization
As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This progra..
AIDS in Africa
With millions dead of AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, Africa is in danger of becoming little more than a graveyard. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Dave Marash deliver three succes..
AIDS: A Global Crisis
This program offers an excellent worldview of AIDS, providing background on the disease’s history, its transmission and symptoms, innovative awareness campaigns, and the ongoing search by scientists from around the glo..
Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait
Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his preeminence in the Americ..
Absorbing the light
With the aid of dynamic computer animation, this program explores the stages of photosynthesis at the cellular level. Two photosystems, P680 and P700, are introduced.
Accentuate the Positive: Using Positive Psychology in the Classroom
Students at Geelong Grammar School are undergoing the first year of a new, and controversial, experiment in education. Positive Education, a program developed by psychologist Martin Seligman, is designed to help children..
Accepting Life's Transitions
Aging is a series of transitions, some gradual and some abrupt. How do people come to terms with these changes? This program examines the aging process from beginning to end, defining age from the viewpoints of biology, ..
Accepting the challenge: issues on the job for people of color
Focusing on the issues that can arise during employment, this ethnically diverse program shares the often frustrating and dramatic experiences minorities often face while on the job. Experts advise on how to deal constru..
Accommodating different learning styles:
This program provides a helpful guide to teachers for recognizing their students' primary styles of acquiring and working with information: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. To illustrate each style's impact on successf..
Acids and Bases
Use this video to familiarize students with the properties of acids and bases. Beginning with an overview of how these two kinds of chemicals react to or neutralize each other, the program explores Arrhenius’s ideas on..