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.
It Started Here: Early Arkansas and The Louisiana Purchase
This course explores the survey of the Louisiana Purchase, including its starting point in Arkansas, the surveyors, the tools and methods used for the process, and the federal government’s plan for the land.
This course meets the scheduled Arkansas history requirement as set forth in the Rules Governing Professional Development and required by ACA 6-17-703.
Historic Bridges of Arkansas
Take a nostalgic journey to some of Arkansas’s bridges, which are nearly as old as the state itself. Each year, several of these structures are lost to the ravages of time and to the demands of a modern roadway system.
Featured in the program is Maxine Payne, Hendrix College Assistant Professor of Art. As an artist and a photographer, she chronicled Arkansas’s historic bridges for the State Highway and Transportation Department over the course of three years. Payne has been responsible for not only capturing the bridges’ unique visual qualities, but also for exploring their connections to the lives of Arkansans.
This course meets the scheduled Arkansas history requirement as set forth in the Rules Governing Professional Development and required by ACA 6-17-703.