American History
Publisher: ABC CLIO Ltd
Combines the most relevant primary and secondary sources, analysis of current events, and unprecedented learning support all in one seamlessly integrated resource. In a series of lessons that integrate politics, science, the arts, philosophy, and economics, the website explores the ongoing development of the United States, its pre-colonial origins, westward expansion, social movements, internal conflicts, and modern-day defining moments. Aligned with major textbooks, it stands alone as a complete American history library collection and also serves as a dependable online source for research help, projects, or exam preparation. Whether clicking through a Revolutionary Era timeline or preparing for an exam on World War II, students will find everything they need in this easy-to-use website. Highlights: A remarkable survey of American history from 1350 to the present organised chronologically linking reference, curriculum, and straight-forward analysis of current events. Unmatched scope and coverage, providing the content necessary to support a variety of approaches to American history while meeting all standards-based curriculum requirements. Dynamic "Living History" and "Spotlight On" sections, connecting students’ lives to the material, putting breaking news in its historical context, and examining key events and issues in depth.
Format: Online
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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American History : FE, HE, & Public Libraries - prices on application
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Citizen Power DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
An integrated multimedia resource of 8 x 25 minute programmes designed to deliver citizenship to 10-14 year olds. The series is fronted by Jon Snow but additional items are presented by young people and ITN journalists. The 8 programmes split into 4 areas are as follows: Government & Democracy: (1) Who Rules?, (2) Your Voice Counts. Human & Animal Rights: (3) Your Rights, (4) Animals & Us. Global Citizenship: (5) One World, (6) War and Peace. Law & Media: (7) Crime & Punishment , (8) Media Matters. Curriculum Connections: Democracy, Conflict resolution, Human rights, Diversity, Global community, Social and ethical issues in the media. How can Citizen Power DVD enhance my lessons? The fast-paced magazine-style programmes are ideal for keeping pupils focused. Free downloadable activities available online make lesson planning quick and easy. Using the DVD with the supporting website is a great way to integrate ICT into your lessons. Fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need. The DVD is fully subtitled. Can be used with DVD players or on computers with DVD-Rom drives. Ideal for use on interactive whiteboards. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 3
Age range: 10-14
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Citizenship
Publisher: AVP
Topics discussed enable pupils to acquire knowledge and understanding of current issues they will need to become informed citizens, as set out in the new citizenship curriculum key stage 3 + 4. Covers: legal and human rights, responsibilities underpinning society, how they relate to citizens, including role of criminal and civil justice systems. Origins and implications of diverse national, regional, religious, ethnic identities in UK, need for mutual respect, and understanding.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age: 11-16+
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Consumer Responsibility DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Features 2 titles each consisting of 3 x 25 minute programmes. Curriculum Connections: 'Consumer Power' Rights and responsibilities, globalisation and consumer responsibility, human rights, business and enterprise, and campaigning, decision making and its human and environmental impact, links with geography resource issues and sustainable development. 'World of Difference' Social change locally and internationally, global interdependence and responsibility, including sustainable development, working co operatively, active citizenship as a life skill, positive examples of diversity. How can the Consumer Responsibility DVD enhance my lessons? No more hypothetical case studies, the up to date real life case studies on this DVD will motivate and engage students. The case studies are ideal for class debates and will allow your students to problem solve in a real life context. The DVD is fully subtitled. Can be used on computers with DVD Rom drives and ideal for use on interactive whiteboards. Fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need. CONSUMER POWER: these three documentaries look at the human and environmental impacts some of our consumer choices have on the world. They focus on our purchases of chocolate, mobile phones and T shirts. Students are encouraged to reflect on their choices and to understand how, collectively, our purchasing patterns can make a difference. Titles: 1. Chocolate: What goes into a chocolate bar? What do the terms 'organic' and 'fair trade' actually mean? Uses examples from a cocoa co operative in Ghana. 2. T shirts: The environmental impact of cotton production, the difficulties of ensuring an 'ethical' supply chain and a look at alternative textiles for the future. 3. Mobile Phones: How the pressure to upgrade mobile phones impacts on the worlds resources and what happens to recycled phones. WORLD OF DIFFERENCE: If you had £10,000 to spend on a project that could change a small part of the world for the better, how would you choose to spend it? Three very different groups of young people won the opportunity to respond to this challenge. This series follows the young peoples progress as they plan their projects and then travel across the world to spend £10,000 with the aim of making a ‘world of difference’. We discover how a relatively small sum of money can transform the lives of communities elsewhere. But its about much more than the money, we see people working in partnership to change peoples expectations and opportunities. Titles, 1: Gambia, 2: Cambodia, 3 Bolivia. Scottish Level SG, NQs. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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Europe in the Round
Publisher: Vocational Technologies Ltd
17,500+ screens packed with information covering: European Union, 90 topics on 30 countries (27 member States, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland), information on 27 other countries, data on 183 regions, Gazetteer of 448 cities; maps, colour photos, graphics, tables and text; 600+ European universities, interactive features; statistics to show trends. For Schools, Colleges (Year 7, GCSE, A Level, Diploma's), Universities, Careers Offices, Libraries, Businesses. Topics divided into 4 sections: People & Society, 35 topics; Geography & Travel, 40 topics; Business & Work, 29 topics; Study & Research, 10 topics. Features: Statistics, Maps, Photos, Output to other applications, Collections to make slideshows, Easy to use, Indexes, Worksheets. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. Annual Subscriptions available as either 2 x CD-ROMs, or Online.
Format: Windows CD-ROM Online
Key stage: 2, 3, 4
Age range: 7-16+
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Origins and Identity DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
IN SEARCH OF THE TARTAN TURBAN: Features 1 x 25 minute programme. Hardeep Singh Kohli is a Sikh Scottish Londoner. As Hardeep retraces his steps back to Scotland via Yorkshire in search of his cultural origins he gains all sorts of unexpected insights into what it means to be a citizen of the UK today. Curriculum Connections: Mutual Respect and Understanding, Changes in Societies and Cultures, National Identity. TALKING ABOUT RACE: A mixed group of young people discuss their attitudes and approaches to a multi-ethnic Britain. Features 3 x 25 minute programmes: Who Are We? Identity; Mixing It? Multi-culture; Futures. RACE IN THE 20TH CENTURY: These programmes present historical film in a critical context, seeking to challenge the ‘one view’ interpretation of history. The programmes ask questions about who product the films, when, why, and for whom? Curriculum Connections: The twentieth-century world, British social and economic history, Civil rights in the USA, Modern Studies. Features 3 x 20 minute programmes: Empire (Units 14, 15), Migration (Unit 15), Civil Rights (Unit 15). ORIGINS: Features 1 x 30 minute programme. Told through moving narrative, animation, interviews and poetry, these stories are about living in a new land with an unfamiliar culture, about searching for a lost identity and about human dignity and survival. Curriculum Connections: Political changes causing migration, Autobiographical writing, Social and community issues, Minority nationalities in the UK. Includes Polish refugees (Second World War), Caribbean migration (1958), Irish migration (1976), a Vietnamese boat family (1975) and a Pakistani restaurant owner (1959). Using video footage in the classroom will help you to improve results. It supports many different learning styles. DVDs offer greater flexibility and control, making them easy to incorporate into your lessons. Can be used on computers with DVD-ROM drives and ideal for use on interactive whiteboard. Fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-19
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Oxford African-American Studies Centre
Publisher: Oxford University Press Online
The Online Authority on the African American Experience. Oxford University Press is proud to announce the creation of the first online resource center to fully document the field of African American Studies and Africana Studies. "The Oxford African American Studies Center, using the most sophisticated technology, will enable us to reassemble the lost and scattered fragments of the African American past. This tool is absolutely indispensable to any student or scholar seeking to explore the contributions that persons of African descent have made, since their arrival on these shores in the seventeenth century, to the stirring saga that is American history. I only wish that this rich resource had been available to scholars like W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper and Carter G. Woodson, on whose shoulders we stand." HENRY LOUIS GATES, Jr., Editor in Chief. Oxford African American Studies Center wins 'outstanding work of reference published in electronic format' at the ISG (CILIP) / BookData Reference Awards 2006. Judging criteria included: the authority and quality of the work; scope and coverage; arrangement, and currency of the information; quality of indexing; adequacy of references; physical presentation; originality; and value for money. Explore the world of African American history and the African diaspora through: Core content - five major Oxford encyclopedias covering all aspects of the African American past. Additional content - from more than 18 Oxford reference sources, all editorially selected and reviewed. Images - currently over 1,300 images available, with an ongoing image research program expected to add hundreds more annually. Primary sources - 250 primary sources, including the Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass's slave narratives, text of speeches, and more. Brief introductory essays accompany each primary source. Charts, tables and graphs - more than 200 charts, tables, and graphs representing demographic information in the areas of history, government and politics, business and labour, education, law and crime, the arts, and much more. Maps - between 30 and 50 thematic maps illustrating demographics and history in a variety of areas. Timelines - a general timeline of African American history, and specific thematic timelines covering such topics as Women's History, Business, Sports, Literature, and more! Learning Center - designed for the school market, this growing area helps users explore the content with ready reference tools such as country profiles, suggested lesson plans by grade level, and study guides to match the curriculum. Wide range of search and browse options help users quickly navigate to the right content for their needs. Other bundle deals also available on whole range of Oxford Schools Online titles - please contact us for details. Prices increase on 1st April each year.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+
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Oxford African-American Studies Centre : FE, HE & Public Libraries - please contact us for prices
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Oxford Islamic Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press Online
Unrivalled online access to the history and culture of Islam. Oxford Islamic Studies Online features essential articles written, selected, and interpreted by renowned scholars. A vast and authoritative online resource: Content includes the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6 volumes, 2009), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Hanna Kassis's A Concordance of the Qur'an, two translations of the Qur'an published in the Oxford World's Classics series, and What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Over 4,500 A-Z articles, from Abd al-Qadir to Zaynab, integrated with chapter-based scholarly works. 300 maps and illustrations offer visual, geographic, and social perspectives on global Islam. More than 150 primary source documents with editorial commentary. Timelines documenting major events in Islamic history and general world history in context. Glossary of Islamic terms and concepts to aid research. Editorially-selected links to authoritative web sites. Learning resources are available to aid research at any level, and to help educational professionals incorporate Oxford Islamic Studies Online into teaching. Regular updates include new content and functionality. Excellent functionality and extensive links: Over 2,500 entries from The Oxford Dictionary of Islam are available free on the world wide web to increase discoverability in your favourite search engines. Search and browse options allow users to quick search all content simultaneously or to focus on a single type of content such as subject articles; chapters; biographies; primary sources; images; maps; charts; or Qur'an study. Refine search options include topic, era, and region. Extensive cross-searching and cross-referencing provide users with access to related content in chapters, primary sources, A-Z articles, and the Qur'an. Direct links from Concordance of the Qur'an verse citations to two alternate interpretations of the Qur'an, which can be viewed side-by-side for study and comparison. An expanding range of carefully-selected links to external websites facilitate further research. Date converter will allow users to convert Islamic dates to Western dates, and vice versa. User-friendly print format. Subscriber services include: Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support. Detailed usage statistics allow you to track how often your users are accessing Oxford Islamic Studies Online. OpenURL compliance allows users to query their library catalogue with bibliographic information. Other bundle deals also available on whole range of Oxford Schools Online titles - please contact us for details. Prices increase on 1st April each year.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+
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Ref: OXF-992011-01
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Oxford Islamic Studies : FE, HE & Public Libraries - please contact us for prices
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We Are From DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Features 12 x 15 minute programmes: The Netherlands, Greece, Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Turkey, Finland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia. Children from these 12 European countries introduce themselves and their countries to children from other parts of Europe. They take us to the different regions of their country, show us the variety of people who live there, and talk about their interests and lifestyles. This series allows children in the UK to learn about other countries in Europe, and its varied physical and human landscape. The programmes will help to broaden UK children’s understanding of life within the European Union. Can be run on DVD players, computers with DVD drives. Ideal for use with interactive whiteboards. Curriculum Connections: Cross-curricular links with citizenship, Awareness of Europe, Awareness of people with different values and customs. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 9-12
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World Data Analyst
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica UK Ltd
Rich trove of current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world. Historical and cross-national comparisons are easy, create your own charts, tables, and export information to spreadsheets for data crunching and deeper analysis. Country Comparisons: create your own tables & graphs comparing countries using the most recent or historical statistics, which show changes in countries over time. Country Snapshots: easy access to printable country statistics including map, area, population, demographic & vital statistics, gross national product etc. Ranked Statistics: see how different countries compare on economic and population measures, get information on significant geographic features such as highest mountains and largest deserts.
Format: Online
Age range: 16+
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