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Pbs Learning Media: Latino Americans Share Their Experiences

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the challenges that three Latino Americans faced and overcame as they achieved success in their careers. This interactive lesson introduces students to playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor Judy Reyes, and astronaut Jose...
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Pbs Learning Media: How Disruptions Affect Animal Populations

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the effects that ecosystem disruptions can have on animal populations. They learn about the disruptions that have driven three species-the Madagascar fish eagle, the Iberian lynx, and the rowi kiwi, to the brink of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Invent Apps That Help Others and Build Empathy

For Students 9th - 10th
For this interactive lesson, students will discover how new apps are improving the lives of people with a disability or illness and helping to raise empathy. Students will create an app.
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this interactive activity, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By the...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of the Erie Canal on America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how the creation of the Erie Canal changed the environment to be more advantageous. This transportation waterway impacted American culture, economics, politics, and more. It set America on a path of destiny, from a...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Economic Impact of a Changing Middle Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students analyze economic data to better understand America's middle class, its role in the economy, its impact on economic growth, and why a shrinking middle class matters to the U.S. economy.
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Pbs Learning Media: Police Reform

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson featuring videos from FRONTLINE: Policing the Police. Using Newark, NJ, as an example, students gather evidence of discriminatory policing practices, examine the perspectives of police and community, and learn about changes...
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Pbs Learning Media: Inside Opioid Addiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the nationwide opioid crisis, its devastating impact on communities and families, and how agencies and individuals are pulling together to respond to this overwhelming public health crisis. Students write a final essay about...
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Pbs Learning Media: Deciding Your City's Energy Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about fossil fuels and renewable energy sources to help them decide which type of energy should be used to power a city's electric grid in the coming decades.
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Pbs Learning Media: Communicating at Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this interactive lesson, young scholars will learn the importance of interpersonal communication skills, listening skills, and making a good impression. Students will gather information through reading, activities, and video excerpts...
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Pbs Learning Media: Adapting Dickens: From Page to Screen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students focus on the opening scene of the Great Expectations film to examine the process of adapting the novel by Charles Dickens for the screen. Students compare and contrast the film and the original text to consider the strengths of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Straight to the Source: Primary and Secondary Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students discover what primary and secondary sources are and how to use them in this instructional activity from PBS Wisconsin Education. They watch video clips from the documentary "Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Neenah-Menasha,"...
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Pbs Learning Media: Saving Crystal River

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the effects that an invasive species can have on the environment. In this interactive lesson, students learn how Lyngbya, a destructive form of algae, is creating environmental problems for the plants and wildlife in the Crystal...
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Pbs Learning Media: Reclaiming Habitat for Honeybees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the role of pollinators in their ecosystems, develop a written response to one of three questions about the importance of honeybees, gather evidence about Coal Country BeeWorks' efforts to reclaim surface mining sites,.
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Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Triple Play: Baseball Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students watch a video and animations that relate Isaac Newton's three laws of motion to baseball and apply what they've learned about these laws to another sport or other real-life situation. It includes formative and...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Challenges of Making Peace: The Great War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students watch videos from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Great War, read primary source documents and video transcripts, and analyze data to better understand how and why the U.S. and European leaders differed in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Supernatural Elements in Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this self-paced lesson, students explore how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements in Macbeth. It begins with an exploration of beliefs about the supernatural and witchcraft in Shakespeare's time as presented in a segment from...
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Pbs Learning Media: Why We Should Protect Freshwater Mussels

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this interactive lesson, students will increase their understanding of the important role that freshwater mussels play in our watershed. Students will learn about freshwater mussel species, how mussels improve water quality in rivers...
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Pbs Learning Media: How Animals Care for Their Young

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this interactive lesson, students learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them. Students watch videos from NATURE and engage in a variety of activities to check...
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Pbs Learning Media: Interactive Lessons Collection

For Teachers K - 1st
Interactive lessons on a range of subjects and grade levels. Each presents content from a public media production, specially tailored to the curricular needs of the classroom. All of these lessons can be used to teach English Language...
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Pbs Learning Media: What Edison Teaches Us About Success

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this interactive lesson, young scholars examine Thomas Edison's character traits and how they contributed to his becoming one of the greatest inventors in history. In this interactive lesson, students watch videos to gather evidence...
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Pbs Learning Media: Making a Case for Health

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this interactive lesson, learners develop and present an evidence-based argument about a change they would like to bring about at their school to make it a healthier place for all students. In this interactive lesson, learners examine...
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Pbs Learning Media: Kentucky's Underground Railroad

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Discover what the Underground Railroad was, the role it played in our county's history, and why Northern Kentucky was such a key location. For this interactive lesson, young scholars will develop a written response to questions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Buster's Egyptian Adventure

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students join Buster Baxter on a ancient Egypt, in this geography lesson plan. Students learn about Cairo, ancient Egypt, the pyramids, the Nile River, and relevant vocabulary terms. Then students write about what they've learned in the...