Explores the lives of people from the Middle Ages, using historical re-enactments and dramatic footage to look at day-to-day life inside monasteries, discussing the various religious orders of the Middle Ages, and considering the participation of monks in the Crusades.
Explores the lives of people from the Middle Ages, using historical re-enactments and dramatic footage to look at the merchant class, with discussion of guilds, and the role of merchants in the building of towns and cathedrals.
Describes the explorations, conquests, accomplishments, and failures of sixteenth-century Spanish explorers ?lvar N??ez Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco V?squez de Coronado, Juan Ponce de Le?n, and Hernando de Soto in North America.
Provides insights into the explorations of the Portuguese through dramatized interviews with Prince Henry the Navigator, a leader who inspired voyages to the African coast and other uncharted regions of the world; Bartolomeo Dias, who sailed around the southern tip of Africa; and Vasco da Gama, explorer of the Indies.
Presents an introduction to the unique features of the Earth's topography, showing how mountains and chasm form, as well as providing information on forces that change its surface, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and water.
Examines the geological time line, describing the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras, including their forms of plant and animal life; shows how geologists study the rock layers under the ocean floor; and presents a hands-on investigation of how geologists "read" unusual formations in rock layers.
Students in grades five through eight travel along as visitors from outer space investigate the variety of land formations on Earth, and the forces that affect them. Includes a hands-on demonstration.
Provides insights into the explorations of the American frontier through a dramatized interview with Kit Carson in which he discusses his own accomplishments, as well as the activities of such frontiersmen as Daniel Boone, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, and James Beckwourth.
A dramatization that describes the voyages of fifteenth-century explorer, Christopher Columbus, including his determination to receive funding in order to find a westward route to Asia and his accidental discovery of a new world.
