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Pbs Learning Media: Hot Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Hot Air shows a brief segment of someone blowing glass and asks students to describe what object they would create if they were a glass blower.
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Gates: Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Career Gates: Technology highlghts various employees from a variety of employers talking about how technology has impacted their careers and increased work efficiency, accuracy, and productivity in their various fields. WLVT PBS 39, The...
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Pbs Learning Media: Health

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how advances in technology have affected people's health.
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Pbs Learning Media: Small Business

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda's new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
Amy Smith is an engineer who designs simple and inexpensive solutions to real-world problems. This video produced for Teachers' Domain features her innovative design for testing the safety of drinking water in the developing world.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Dome Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," think like an engineer and use your knowledge of dome design to match the right type of dome to the right location in a fictitious city.
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Pbs Learning Media: Characteristics of the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA describes the basic characteristics of our star, the Sun. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. Video length: 1 min. 28 sec.
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Pbs Learning Media: Floral Arrangements

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind.
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Pbs Learning Media: Inside a Seed

For Students 4th - 9th
This image from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine illustrates the five most important parts of a seed: the seed coat, the endosperm, and the embryo's primary root, cotyledon, and embryonic leaves.
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Pbs Learning Media: Jaws and Teeth of Mammals

For Students 9th - 10th
This image from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine illustrates the relationship between structure and function by comparing the jaws and teeth of two animals with very different ways of life: the wolf and the horse.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive periodic table from the NOVA Web site, find out the role of various elements in making fireworks.
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Pbs Learning Media: Observe Images of Different Climate Zones

For Students 9th - 10th
Interact with this world map from McDougal Littell/TERC to highlight different climate zones and see a photograph of each one. Ten climate zones are represented, including tundra, desert, humid subtropical, and others.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Caves Form

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from NOVA Online shows four different ways in which caves are formed: by rainwater, waves, lava, and bacteria.
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Pbs Learning Media: Puppy Walker

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This Zoom video segment features Brett, a boy who trains puppies to be seeing-eye dogs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Grassland Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Nature features a greeting ceremony by grassland elephants in Kenya.
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of the life and leadership of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist best known for her stirring testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mitosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment, adapted from the Interactive Secret of Life videodisc, explains the stages of mitosis, the process of dividing equally a cell's massive jumble of DNA just prior to cell division. [1:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Snapshot of u.s. Energy Use

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at American energy consumption and the resulting production of greenhouse gases. [4:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment by bending and folding sheets of paper into various shapes to see which shape will support the weight of a heavy book. [3:33]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Frontline

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE introduces the electromagnetic spectrum and explains how the various types of electromagnetic waves are distinguished by the amount of energy each wave carries.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fossilized Dinosaur Bones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features a variety of images of fossilized dinosaur bones, which provide evidence for the existence of these fascinating reptiles.
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Pbs Learning Media: Aiming for the Basketball Hall of Fame

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pizza Toppings

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This Cyberchase video features Bianca who uses Venn Diagrams to make a pizza that satisfies the topping preferences of her friends.
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Pbs Learning Media: Frog Hops, Part 2

For Students 6th - 9th
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must figure out the new input/output pattern on Hacker's larger cyberfrog.