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Discovery School

Middle eastern man looks just off camera. Caption. I felt that I was just as American as anybody else.
55 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white photo of cascading waterfall and jumping salmon. Caption. Southwest Alaska is the richest red salmon producing area in the world.
21 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
Man wearing a pharaoh costume resembling Alexander the Great, person bowing behind him. Caption. Alexander proclaimed pharaoh.
26 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Head and shoulders of a bear visible in a berry patch. Caption: has its unique way of coping with its environment.
24 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Wide shot of Spanish mission with flag. Text on image reads, Day 12, March 5, 1836. Caption. Santa Anna completes his plan for the assault.
49 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A close up of a single bee on a honeycomb. Caption: Connected to the thorax are wings.
24 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cave with stalactites and stalagmites in light brown rock. Caption: and great cathedrals of rock
17 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Wide shot of an Egyptian temple rising out of the desert with trees and grasslands in the foreground. Caption. A powerful river civilization emerged.
55 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Wide shot of an outdoor water fountain with a palace in the background. Caption. William III thought Henry's palace was outmoded.
55 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close up of a green amphibian head with white stripes. Caption: between a frog and a toad.
24 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white frame of senior woman looking down and working with her hands, surrounded by others. Caption. As Steinbeck was writing it, people were living it.
26 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Wide shot of 3 Egyptian pyramids at sundown. Caption. The oldest pyramid was more than 25 centuries old.
24 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Character resembling Gulliver on sand being tied up by small people. Caption. Finds himself in the land of the Lilliputians.
24 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white rendering of 6 serpents intertwined with one another. Caption. Life seems to be a succession of tradeoffs.
26 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
2 Episodes
Closeup on a sheet of paper in a typewriter with the word, "Week," typed out in all caps. Caption. The Egyptian week was ten days long.
24 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Central point of light surrounded by nebulous cloud-like structures and glowing light. Caption: The intense light of a supernova travels outward,
55 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Open wooden box with metal instruments to measure length. Caption. But how did we come up with rulers.
24 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
2 Black men lean against a fence and look up, light illuminating their faces. Caption. A young black man whose family has moved from the South.
47 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Low shot looking up along a white Greek column. Caption. From its columns to its foundations.
51 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
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