Reactions in Chemistry: Chemistry at the Interface

In this workshop, cutting–edge technologies are presented, where chemistry is at the interface with other disciplines: tissue engineering, deciphering of the human genome, and agricultural resources for new materials. The future of technology is incorporated into the chemistry classroom, motivating the students with exciting real–world applications and contributing to teaching. The workshop ends with a discussion: What is quality in teaching and how does it influence chemistry students and teachers?

Teaching High School Science: Introduction

This course is the Introductory video to the Teaching High School Science SERIES. This SERIES will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. Showing science classrooms around the country, the modules cover topics in life science, physical science, Earth and space science, and integrated science. The videos also show a range of teaching techniques and student/teacher interaction.

Teaching High School Science: Thinking Like Scientists

The Teaching High School Science course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. This video contains classroom footage and new footage of scientists in the field explain and illustrate the concept of inquiry. 

Teaching High School Science: Chemical Reactions

The Teaching High School Science course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course students in a ninth-grade Principles of Science and Technology class formulate and explore their own questions about a chemical reaction.

Teaching High School Science: Investigating Crickets

This course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course, ninth-grade biology students design and conduct experiments about crickets.

Teaching High School Science: Exploring Mars

This course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course, students in an eleventh-grade integrated science class explore how the Mars landscape may have formed.

Teaching High School Science: The Physics of Optics

This course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course, an eleventh and twelfth grade physics class looks at light, lenses, and the human eye.

The Edge of Conflict: Arkansas in the Civil War

This course explores Arkansas's involvement in the United States Civil War. It covers Arkansas's beginnings as a state, its decision to secede, the events following its secession, hardships faced by Arkansans near the end of the war, and the state's surrender to the Union.

This course meets the scheduled Arkansas history requirement as set forth in the Rules Governing Professional Development and required by ACA 6-17-703.

City of Visitors: The Story of Hot Springs

This course tells the story of how Hot Springs developed as a town with a split personality. It is the story of the people who made the city one of the most glamorous health treatment centers in the country, as well as the largest illegal gambling operation in the United States. And it is the story of the people who forced the city to change.

This course meets the scheduled Arkansas history requirement as set forth in the Rules Governing Professional Development and required by ACA 6-17-703.

• Warning:  This documentary depicts actual events and may contain sensitive images or descriptions.

The Forgotten Expedition

Most Americans have heard the story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase from 1804 to 1806. What most people do not realize is that Jefferson also commissioned a second expedition, with William Dunbar and George Hunter, to explore the southern areas of that new frontier. This Arkansas Educational Television Network production tells the story of that almost forgotten expedition.

This course meets the scheduled Arkansas history requirement as set forth in the Rules Governing Professional Development and required by ACA 6-17-703.