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Neil Oliver explores the world of Ancient Britain, kicking off his series, with the Age of Ice. He explores the world of the ice age, discovering the remains of the people who lived during that period.
The series opens with an archeological site in Wales: Footprints of ancient man. Then Neil explores the nomadic hunter-gatherers and the stories of survival. He then looks to the bones of our ancestors to explain the history. Reverend William Buckland went down a cliff to explore a cave. He thought the cave contained artifacts from the Flood. He carefully documented his discovery of what he found. He discovered a human skeleton in the cave. He initially thought he found the remains of a prostitute, but it turned out the skeleton was much older. The Red Lady as he called the skeleton was part of the first group of inhabitants in Britain. It was at a time when the British Isles were part of a peninsula attached to Europe. The first hunter gatherers to Britain came over on a land bridge. They came in small bands during a colder period in history. They hunted mammoth and deer. Life was changing and the type of life they were living would change due to the Ice Age. The world was cold and getting colder. Life was tough and was about to become impossible. Britain was becoming a frozen wilderness. The entire population of Western Europe was wiped out. When the Ice Age ended people started coming back. This group was hardier and could withstand the cold. They documented their life in horse bone and in caves. They lived in a landscape shaped by their environment. Power of the environment shaped the landscape our ancestors lived in. To find out more about the Age of Ice continue to watch the documentary. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. The World of Stonehenge Episode 1 Questions:
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The Women Who Made History is a German documentary series. The series is German with English subtitles. This episode is about Queen Luise of Prussia. She was the queen that negotiated with Napoleon after the defeat of Prussia. This docu-drama opens up with Queen Luise's arrival in Paris to negotiate with Napeleon.
Queen Luise's story begins with her childhood in Mecklenburg, she and her sister were close companions, her mother had died and she was in the care of a governess. Her life changed when she and her sister went to Frankfurt to enjoy a bit of society. Her family was not rich, but had good connections which enabled her to be introduced to the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm. The Crown Prince proposed marriage and they set off for Berlin where they would live. The Mecklenburg sisters were the hit of Berlin. They settled into life in Berlin. They were supposed to be good models for the Fatherland. Luise had to make adjustments while she lived at Court. The Prussian Court was quieter, more serious, and more strict. She did not want to end up like the other Prussian wives. Frederick Wilhelm was a bit of a stickler for the rules, while Luise enjoyed excitement. They could drop the strictness in their summer palace. They could have fun, and Frederick Wilhelm was an affectionate father with this children. Life changed when Napoleon took over France and politics started changing. He crowned himself Emperor. However there were concerns about revolution coming to Berlin. Luise thought they could make peace with Napoleon, however Napoleon had other ideas. He took what he wanted and tried to force Prussia into an Alliance. The Prussians pursued an alliance with Russia. Tsar Alexander I came to Prussia to propose an alliance to stop Napoleon. The French defeated Austria and Russia. Prussia tried to challenge Napoleon and Luise was named an honorary colonel of a regiment. Napoleon defeated the Prussians and made their way towards Berlin. Queen Luise was forced to flee so the French would not take her hostage. Napoleon felt Queen Luise instigated everything and wanted to humiliate the Queen. He spread rumors and lies about the Queen and convinced the people that it was Queen's fault for the suffering of the Prussian people. Napoleon offered the Prussians a truce. Frederick Wilhelm would have offered a truce but Luise pressed to continue the war. Alexander started negotiating with Napoleon behind the Prussians back. Napoleon was determined to punish Prussian for its pride and arrogance. The Prussians then sent Luise to negotiate with Napoleon for better conditions. She was to charm the king but then Frederick Wilhelm showed up and spoiled everything. Prussia was cut into half, they were exiled to east Prussia and the French occupied Berlin. Eventually the family returned to Berlin and Napoleon was sent into exile. This documentary for research purposes for both teacher and a student's research paper. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. There will be no worksheet that goes with this documentary at this time. This documentary came up on my suggestions a few months ago and I immediately was hooked. This was an individual who took it upon himself to put together a documentary about a tragic shipwreck called the SS Atlantic.
Thomas Lynskey, the narrator had wrote and research this shipwrecked, as well as visited the site in Canada. The SS Atlantic isn't as well known as wrecks like the Titanic or Lusitania. The seas were rough and the ship was delayed. The coal stores were running low, or were they? Rather than take the risk, the ship pulled into another harbor during a storm...this was when tragedy struck. The ship hit a rock and started to sink on its side. No women and one child survived and only a couple hundred men survived. Lynskey explores the the history of this wreck as well as the site of the wreck. Lynskey, hits on the history of the White Star Line and the different ships that were built before the SS Atlantic. Then goes into details how ship design evolved over the years before the 1870's. Even though the ships of the day were powered by steam power, passengers still found comfort in sailing on ships with a full compliment of sail. The sails could be unfurled and the ship could sail under wind power when the coal ran out. The SS Atlantic was part of the Oceanic Class. Passenger areas were now separate from crew areas. There were electric buzzers installed for cabin class passengers and the quarters were still lit by oil lamps. There were indoor toilets for the passengers. The hull was bigger, which allowed her to carry more people. She was one of the fastest ships on the Atlantic. The 19th Voyage started like normal. Passengers boarded and saw the name plate of the ship. The found their cabins and settled in for the voyage. There were delays due to storms over the voyage which made the ship burn more coal. John Foxley, the chief engineer, kept reporting the coal reserves. Foxley was the one who reported to the captain that the coal reserves were low, which caused the captain of the Atlantic to divert to get more coal. The ship was diverted to Halifax to pick up more supplies. Halifax has a reputation for being a difficult harbor to get into with hidden rocks and strong currents. However the storms caused the Atlantic to divert off course and they ran aground... To find out more about what happened to the Atlantic continue to watch the documentary. I would recommend using this for research for a lecture on immigration and ocean travel, but if you needed a filler for a day with a sub, use this video in your classroom. Lynskey is a fantastic narrator for this documentary and the animations of the shipwreck are well done. Even if you don't use it in a classroom, it's a well done documentary. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. At this time there will be no worksheet provided for this video. Death was frequent in the Tudor period, however the home proved to be a dangerous place. Suzannah Lipscomb explores the hidden killers of the Tudor Home.
Towards the end of the Tudor period, the middle class had money and they spent it on their homes. They built new kinds of houses. The first hidden killer of the home came through the kitchen: sugar. With trade and colonization new foods were introduced to the Tudor diet and sugar was one of these new dietary items. Food was a way the Tudors displayed their wealth. Sugar was white gold and they disguised it as normal every day food. There was consequences to their sugar addiction: it ruined their teeth. The archeological record shows how it ruined their teeth: they lost their teeth, it causes decay, and there were infections that eventually killed the person. Chimneys also killed people as they did not realize that they needed to clean them nor design them to draw the smoke up to them. Chimneys allowed builders to divide the house into rooms, rather than living in a great hall, people could live in individual rooms. However, due to build up in the chimney, the smoke could catch fire and then eventually catch the house on fire. Houses started being built from brick and chimneys were redesigned to allow the smoke to be drawn out and not build up soot in the chimney. They also discovered that they had to clean their chimneys. With digitized records, Suzannah was also able to note that one of the biggest causes of death was drowning. A corner's report documented the case of a woman, who fell into a pond while washing a petticoat, drowned. There were many instances of people just slipping and falling into the water and drowning. She demonstrates this cause of death by dawning period clothes and walking into a shallow pond. Her reaction to getting into the water is immediate and she had a hard time getting out of the pond due to her woolen clothes. A participant in the documentary shares that when you first hit the cold water, you gasp from the cold and take in water. To avoid this cause of death, water courses were fenced off and there were covers on wells. The Tudor Garden was also a hidden killer of the home. It was a source of medicine for the family. There was a body of knowledge available to the Tudor Housewife and she would use that to help heal her family. However, there were plants in the garden that would kill. It was the ultimate in free medicine for a family. 150 plants had medicinal qualities. Tansy was a mild poison, however if you constantly take it becomes toxic. They believed if the plant looked like if what it was treating it was a good plant to use. The Gutenberg Press helped spread the medical knowledge of the day. They were popular materials of the day and explored the benefits of each plant. If you want to learn more, continue to watch the documentary. This would be a documentary I would use for research for a class lecture. There are some science elements to this documentary as Suzannah applies the scientific method to hidden killers. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home Questions:
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July comes and goes on the farm, which means the team has one more month left in their experiment. They work the hay fields, catch up on laundry and work on harvesting the garden.
The boys work in bringing in the hay harvest. Ruth and Chloe work on bringing in the fruit. Ruth discusses the period attitude towards fruit. Period people tried to avoid fruit as much as possible, unless it was cooked. The farm has variety of fruit that was from the period. The garden is starting to come to life. The beans are starting sprout in the garden. Ruth makes rosewater. Alex explains how he uses the scythe when he was haying. Peter explains the use of the rake to spread out the hay in order to dry it quicker. An experienced mower should be able to clear a hay field in a single day, however Alex and Peter are not experienced mowers. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley 11 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 12 The series concludes with the team taking in the wheat harvest. They have a good morning to bring in the harvest and they are successful. Goose has a lot of uses and not just for meat or eggs. The feathers are used for cleaning and making quills. The small breast feathers were sold for feathers for pillows or mattresses. Peter discusses the differences between reading about the chores on the farm versus doing the chores on the farm. Chloe and Ruth work in making rush lights. It was a good time of year to bring in rushes as well as gather the tallow. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 12 Questions:
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The team works to fertilize and prepare the soil for planting. May is a quiet time in the agricultural calendar. Stuart and a charcoal burner work to make charcoal. Charcoal burning powered the industrial revolution and is smoke free, lighter, and burns hotter. Charcoal burners were a roaming profession. They are a set of skilled workers.
Dairy production begins in May. Chloe and Ruth work on milking the cows. The milk is creamy and thicker, perfect for butter. Duchess hasn't been milked much and it is proving to be a challenge for Chloe. The milk they get isn't as much as they were expecting. The pea field is getting close to done. Alex is using a breast plow to help plow the field. However he's not using his chest to plow. They are using a special pea seed, it is an experiment. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 9 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 10 Ruth works in the Dairy while the boys work in the fields. The boys work on shearing sheep, they were the most valuable asset to the farm. Stuart, Alex, and Peter wash the sheep in the nearby pond. They get as wet as the sheep they are washing. Washing the sheep help makes the shearing process easier. Working in the Dairy was a woman's work. June was a good time of year for cheese making as well as a way to beat the heat. Cows eat different grasses over the year which changes the flavors of the milk. They make rennet and discuss the alternatives to it. The dairy portion of the episode would be great to show in an agricultural class, Ruth and Chloe go through the process of cheese making without technology. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 10 Questions:
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The team performs maintenance on the farm and the animals. They prep the garden and work to make bread and beer.
Alex and Peter thresh the wheat in order to make bread and beer. They thresh wheat as they go because it preserves better over the long term. They then go through the process of getting the wheat kernels separated from the chaff. Ruth and Chloe start making beer, that was their main drink over the year. The team also works on making flour so Ruth and Chloe can make bread. The team discusses the games that were played during the Stuart period. They play for who does what chores. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley 7 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 8 As spring comes the team works on cleaning up the farm, as well as fixing walls around the farm. Ruth introduces the series with discussing spring cleaning and spring planting. The farm house is cleared and Stuart cleans the chimney holly. Ruth and Chloe air out the fabrics. Ruth cleans out the house and noticed the history of spring cleaning and how women back then took pride in a neat house or how they didn't take pride in a clean house. They clean the beds and Ruth discussions the the differences in classes by their beds as well as the herbs the farmer's wife would put into the hay to prevent bugs. They work on clearing out a field, and burn off the old brush in order to make it ready for planting. They dig up massive roots and burn them. Burning helps sterilize the soil. The animals are turned out into the field, but destroy a stone wall. The team fixes the wall with the help of an expert. Stonewalls are a more permanent solution where a hedge wouldn't work. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 8 Questions:
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January comes to the farm as the team works on maintenance around the farm. The well doesn't freeze for the team during winter. They finally face some bitterly cold weather which makes it hard to work outdoors. They work on the hedges while the animals are indoors and the leaves are gone. Alex works on hedge laying, this forms an animal proof fence that animals can't pass through. A hedge is often thought as a living hedge as the trees and weaving get stronger over time.
Ruth and Chloe much out the stalls. Stuart makes ink as well as working on his shoes. Ruth works on making medicine for the people on the farm. She starts off with sage oil. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 5 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 6 The Team works on a new privy, taking care of the animals, laundry and some additional maintenance around the farm. They get their first snow on the farm. Alex, Peter and Stuart knock down the privy and build a new one. The first thing they do after knocking down the privy was cleaning the pit and digging it deeper. Peter has to dig out the privy after loosing out on a game of Hazard. Chloe works with the ponies to train them to be working farm animals. Stuart works on getting the pea seeds ready for planting. Ruth uses pee for use in the laundry, she makes bleach with it. She starts doing laundry around the farm. We learn that waste management was a big business in the Stuart period. Ruth, Chloe and Stuart bring the sheep down from the fields and perform maintenance on their hooves. They also clean up some of their fleeces. Alex entertains with team with his musical talents. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 6 Questions:
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November comes around and they work on butchering animals for the farm as well as finish up the cowshed. Work continues on the cowshed, as Peter and Alex build a wall for the shed. They take advantage of the sun and warmth to finish up the wall on the cowshed. The team finishes thatching the roof. Ruth and Chloe prepare for butchering day by cleaning their supplies to make sure bacteria doesn't affect the meat. They butcher a pig. Ruth uses the blood for sausages and puddings as well as taking care of the butchering. Ruth explains that the ancestors knew that the cooking area needed to be clean, they just didn't know about germs. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 3 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 4 December comes to the farm and the team prepares to celebrate Christmas. Stuart introduces the episode by discussing that although it's Christmas, chores on the farm didn't end. The boys work on making a hovel. They make it so they can take it down and store it over the summer. Ruth and Chloe work on making woolies. They talk about how the period clothes and how they work or don't work against the weather. Stuart threshes the peas for seed and to plant in the future. He gives the stalks and pods to the animals for a treat. Ronald Hutton stops by and helps the team celebrate Christmas. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 4 Questions:
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A team of historians and archeologists work a farm as it would have been done in the Stuart Period. They work a full calendar year on the farm. They will turn theory into practice. Stuart Peachy helped rebuild the site.
The Historians are Stuart Peachy and Ruth Goodman. The Archeologists are Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands, and Chloe Spencer. Stuart runs the farm, and Ruth runs the household. Peter, Alex, and Chloe take care of the animals, building maintenance, and the fields. Chloe has the most experience with taking care of the animals. They kick off the year by plowing the fields and making bread. They plant wheat into the field by broadcasting. Each episode in the series is 30 minutes long. It could be a last-minute fill-in for a substitute in an agricultural class or a history class. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 1 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley - Episode 2 The team continues to work on the cowshed. They build a roof for the cowshed. They fight the rain to make sure the roof gets on and adapt to their clothing while they work on it. They turn out the pigs in the orchards after the nuts and fruits have been harvested to help fatten them up. Ruth makes sure that the workforce is well fed as they are constantly working outdoors. Each episode in the series is 30 minutes long. It could be a last-minute fill-in for a substitute in an agricultural class or a history class. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 2 Questions:
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