Earth Science: Volcanoes

Join volcanologist Dr. Dave Sherrod, geoscientist Dr. Chuck Blay, and Professor Michael Manga to rekindle the excitement and awe you felt about volcanoes as a child. In Earth Science: Volcanoes, these passionate scientists explore volcanic activity above and below the Earth's crust, explaining how volcanoes are formed, why different types behave differently, and how tectonic plates affect volcanic activity. Earth Science: Volcanoes is made up of short video segments from a more in-depth Annenberg Media production found in the course Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science - The Engine That Drives the Earth.

Annenberg Media’s Earth and Space Science series is a collaborative project created in conjunction with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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.

Delta Dreams

Delta Dreams presents a portrait of the town Helena - West Helena as it was in its glory days. It includes a description of how and why the town declined as well as the formation of a plan for recovery by the community, Southern Bancorp, and the Walton Foundation. The efforts of local people to start new businesses, including building tourism around the town’s history and tradition of music, are highlighted. The troubled and present racial history of the community is also discussed. The program concludes with a discussion of the steps to overcome the devastating effects of poverty through education. 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.

Arkansas's First People: Ancestors

This course introduces the early people known as Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian Indians who began the story of this land with the objects and artwork they left behind. Tools made of stone and animal bones surface in farm fields and on riverbanks. Beautiful clay vessels that have stayed intact for centuries and curious pictures painted and pecked onto cave walls reveal the ingenuity, intelligence, and humor of people who came before. As the descendants of these people begin to settle and form permanent homes, the evidence of their societies laid claim to magnificent monuments such as the sky-reaching mounds dotting Arkansas.

This course meets the scheduled Arkansas history requirement as set forth in the Rules Governing Professional Development and required by Act 969 of 2013.

Arkansas's First People: Nations

As European explorers continue to cross the Mississippi River, out of the mysterious past of the mound builders, diverse, communal groups known as the Caddo, the Quapaw, and the Osage emerge in the mountains, valleys, and plains of Arkansas. In this course, the modern descendants of these great people explain their tribal views and cultures.

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

Arkansas's First People: Removal

Because of the ever-expanding United States of America, indigenous tribes were forced to move to what is dubbed "Indian Territory" by way of the heartbreaking, multi-route Trail of Tears. This time of removal is still evident along the geography of the southeast. In the conversations of the tribes affected and preservation groups maintaining the routes, the memory of this greedy period of United States history is kept alive so that it may never happen again. 

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