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Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards
In this lesson plan, young scholars are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and explore how understanding these threats make us better able to avoid or reduce their potential harmful impact.
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Pbs Learning Media: Now: Do Now: Should Teens Who Commit Serious Crimes Be Sentenced as Adults?
Click on Watch on YouTube to watch the FRONTLINE film "Stickup Kid." Then Do Now activity, students engage in a conversation around teen sentencing and discuss the question: Should teens under 18 be tried and sentenced as children or...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: How Opioids Change the Brain: Lesson Plan
In this lesson module, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will understand that addiction is medically classified as a disease. They will learn about brain structure and functioning and how they are...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Facts & Fictions of Opioid Addiction/recovery/relapse: Lesson Plan
For this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students, through research, discussion and viewing the program, will learn some factual information about the opioid epidemic, addiction recovery options and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Untamed: The Wildlife Center of Virginia
In this learning module with the video series UNTAMED: The Wildlife Center of Virginia, students will learn from Ed Clark, the staff of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, and special guests discuss the issues facing wildlife and what...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: What Is the Opioid Epidemic? Lesson Plan
This lesson plan module is to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic. Students will learn the definitions for "opioid" and "epidemic" terms. Students will also research factors that led to the current opioid epidemic...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Effects of Opioids on Communities, What Can Be Done: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will explore the dangers of opioids and what effects they have on whole communities. They will use critical thinking skills to think about ways the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Women & Girls in the Criminal Justice System: Lesson 3: The State of the Criminal Justice System
Students will look at restorative justice as a competing model, learn more about the state of the criminal justice system, and express their opinions about the topic to an elected leader. The prison population has exploded in the United...
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Pbs Learning Media: Where Words Touch the Earth Collection
In this learning module, students from American Indian Tribal Colleges interview Elders, other students, and community members to provide a Native American perspective on climate change and its effects on their communities.
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Pbs Learning Media: West Virginia Public Broadcasting: West Virginia: Steam & Inspiring West Virginians
West Virginia STEAM is a learning module with a series of videos designed to inspire middle and high school students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. They are produced by West Virginia...
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Pbs Learning Media: Weird Wonderful West Virginia
With this learning module of videos, students will be able to discuss and examine recreation, history, exceptional individuals and groups, geography, the arts, and oddities in West Virginia. This content is appropriate for anyone with an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: But, the Doctor Prescribed It...: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will explore the misperception of safety associated with prescription opioid painkillers. They will understand the differences between prescription...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic Collection
This module provides a series of lessons to accompany the one-hour documentary called Understanding the Opioid Epidemic. This series investigates the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Internet's Impact on Our Culture Collection
This collection of instructional videos analyzes how the internet has created a system for everyone to engag.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Good Stuff
This module is led by Craig Benzine as he scours the depths of the universe and the recesses of the inner mind on a never-ending quest for The Good Stuff.
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Pbs Learning Media: The 1980s Farm Crisis
This 90-minute film was produced by Iowa PBST Farm Crisis. This feaure examines the economic and personal disasters that afflicted the agriculture sector in the 1980s.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Activity Deck
Six TEAMology social-emotional activities from their SEL curriculum, plus a coloring and activity book to use with students in grades PreK-5th grade.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer of Possibilities: Friends & Neighbors Packet: Grades 1 and 2
Use these friends & neighbors-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour: Coronavirus Update: Where Things Stand Three Months Into Quarantine
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, states are balancing public health through stay-at-home orders and crowd limits with concern for jobs and the economy. Alabama was among the last states to issue a stay-at-home order on April 3rd...
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Pbs Learning Media: This Week in Wv History: May
This module contains a series of informational clips about major events in West Virginia's history. The May audio episodes of This Week in WV History include guided listening questions, scripts, and background information.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: A Short History of the Long Fight Against Sexual Harassment Lesson Plan
Accusations of sexual harassment and assault against media mogul Harvey Weinstein caused a groundswell of allegations that have ended the careers of media, entertainment and political figures. Over a million women throughout the country...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: After the Fires: North Bay Teachers and Students Talk Disaster Prep Lesson Plan
Wildfires burned whole neighborhoods in Northern California in a matter of minutes. In Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, hurricane winds and flood waters wreak havoc on buildings, power lines and roads. No community is entirely safe from...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Brief History of the First Earth Day and What We Can Learn From Its Success Lesson Plan
Earth Day grew out of the environmental movement in the late 1960s in response to a series of environmental disasters that took lives, marred natural beauty and threatened animal species. An estimated 20 million Americans participated in...