Rhonda Fabian
1) Earth Day
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Combines traditional music, illustrated folk tales, creative animation and interactive arts and crafts segments to teach students about Earth Day. Earth Day celebrates the many things that we can all do to help keep the Earth clean and healthy. Students will learn the story behind the first Earth Day in 1970, and different ways to celebrate it, from recycling to composting to planting trees.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures, and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the story of the flag, the Star Spangled Banner, the evolution of the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, and care of the flag.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include Stewards of the Earth, The Story of Pocahontas, Many Faces One Heart: Diversity of Cultures, Tecumseh and the Trail of Tears, Who are the Native Americans?
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the story of the Constitution, the lives of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Seal of the United States.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, the life of Thomas Jefferson, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Pilgrims and the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact, Squanto and the first Thanksgiving, life in colonial Williamsburg, and the Colonists.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include The Journey from Africa to Slavery, Resisting Slavery, Segregation, The Civil Rights Movement, The Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., African Americans Today.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Bill of Rights, Quakers and abolition, the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include Who Came to the United States?, The Story of a Child: My New Home in America, The Story of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, The Story of a Child: I Came All the Way From China, and Faces of Immigration Today.
11) Easter
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Children are taken to the home of a Polish-American family, where they discover some of the festivities and traditions associated with the Easter Sunday celebration.
12) Cinco de Mayo
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Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of Mexico's military victory over the French in 1862. This video investigates the holiday's history and observes preparations being made to make the occasion festive, highlighted by the spirited sounds of a traditional Mexican mariachi band.
13) Ramadan
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Children experience the beauty of the month-long religious observance as they construct their own Ramadan diorama and hear the exotic sounds of live Islamic and Middle Eastern music. They discover the religious significance of song and prayer, as well as the principles and traditions that mark the holiest of the Islamic holidays.
14) Valentine's Day
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Explores the history behind Valentine's Day, and explains how certain traditions came to be associated with love and the rebirth of spring.
15) Christmas
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Focuses on both the legendary and religious stories of Christmas. Explores Christmas around the world, with emphasis on similarities of American traditions.
17) Chinese New Year
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Shows the sights and sounds of a traditional Chinese New Year celebration.
19) Thanksgiving
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Children learn the story behind the first Thanksgiving celebration. They visit Plimoth Plantation. Nanticoke tribe dancers re-create the sense of excitement and wonder the Pilgrims must have felt upon meeting Native Americans. Children learn an Abnaki tribe myth on the origin of corn that teaches the importance of sharing resources.
20) Halloween
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Explores several folk traditions from Costa Rica, Mexico and Ireland to explain some Halloween symbols, the origin of costumes and the custom of trick-or-treating. Children learn that, despite the many rituals surrounding the holiday, Halloween is a time to celebrate and honor the memory of loved ones past, and can be a time to talk about death and other subjects that may be frightening to them. The importance of Halloween safety is discussed.