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Pbs Learning Media: Animals and Plants Can Live in a City!

For Teachers K - 1st
In this interactive lesson, students learn that animals need air, food, water, and shelter, while plants need air, sunlight, and water. Students watch videos and engage with drawing and sorting activities to reinforce their learning....
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Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fairy Tales Collection

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...
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Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar Collection

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
In this No Nonsense Grammar Collection, students explore a range of commonly taught grammar principles for elementary and middle schoolers with these short, fun videos and activities. From the difference between dependent and independent...
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Pbs Learning Media: Decisions on a Deadline Collection: "A Fragile Trust"

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains two lesson plans and an interactive game that will facilitate discussion and deepen understanding of the complex issues raised in the documentary film, A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Bedtime Mobile Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a bedtime mobile to discuss healthy sleeping habits with your students! Site includes instructions for making the mobile.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Teeny Tiny Garden Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Grow your own garden with this lesson plan. Students will learn about plants while they create their own garden.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Bird Feeder Bonanza Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Study the birds by making this bird feeder! Website includes instructions for how to build the DIY bird feeder.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Watercolor Butterflies Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website shows young scholars how to make their own watercolors to decorate their butterfly.
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Pbs Learning Media: Technology Over Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn how technology in the home has changed through the years. Scroll through a timeline from 1900 to 2010 to explore technological innovations in the home (such as...
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Pbs Learning Media: Novel Reflections on the American Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of five videos of Novel Reflections on the American Dream including Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," Ann Petry's "The Street," and Gish Jen's "Traditional American."
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Pbs Learning Media: Dna Structure and Function: Decoding Watson

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how the structure of DNA relates to its hereditary function in these videos from the American Masters film Decoding Watson. The first video, "DNA Structure and Function," [2:07] can be used with all middle and high school...
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Pbs: Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
In this series of videos from the American Masters film Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, learn how Le Guin and her contemporaries pushed science fiction from a male-dominated genre into a more inclusive form. By redefining the parameters of...
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Pbs Learning Media: "The Crucible": Inspiration and Reception

For Students 9th - 10th
This media gallery explores the inspiration for and reception of "The Crucible" during the Hollywood Blacklist with videos from the American Masters film "None Without Sin." The videos and support materials are best used during or after...
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Pbs Learning Media: Huac and Hollywood

For Students 9th - 10th
This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...
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Pbs Learning Media: Huac: Backlash and Implications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These videos and support materials explore the intense division experienced by those who testified before and blacklisted by HUAC during the Cold War, focusing on the testimony of Elia Kazan. The videos are from American Masters None...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Arthur Miller

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of three video lessons about Arthur Miller and his play "The Crucible." Teaching materials including handouts and discussion questions are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin tells the intimate coming-of-age story of the Portland, Oregon, housewife and mother of three who forever transformed American literature by bringing science fiction and fantasy into the literary mainstream....
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Pbs: "Kill the Indian and Save the Man": Native American Representation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the impact of US government policies of assimilation, relocation, and urbanization on Native American identity and culture in this series of videos from the American Masters film Words from a Bear: N. Scott Momaday. Years...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: N. Scott Momaday

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of three video lessons from N. Scott Momaday about Kiowa Native American stories, storytelling, and their oral traditions.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of four video lessons and a teacher's guide about Harper Lee and her masterpiece "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Pbs: Hedy Lamarr: Securing Wireless Communications Through Frequency Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this two video media gallery from the American Masters film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Learn how Lamarr invented frequency hopping, the basis of secure wireless...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hedy Lamarr: Feminism in Hollywood

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Hedy Lamarr struggled to transcend the "bombshell" label placed on her by Hollywood in this media gallery (three videos) from the American Masters film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. During a time when women in Hollywood...
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Pbs Learning Media: "Shakespeare Is Too Big": Raul Julia: The World's a Stage

For Students 9th - 10th
Shakespeare is not just for one type of actor or audience member. In the clip [0:43] "Bringing Myself to Shakespeare" from the American Masters film Raul Julia: The World's a Stage, Raul Julia explores what it means to bring his own...