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Pbs Learning Media: Lego Robots

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members enter the FIRST LEGO League Challenge tournament and work as a team to program their LEGO robot to navigate a complex obstacle course. [6:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Naacp, Constance Baker Motley

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Justice Constance Baker Motley recalls her role as an NAACP attorney in landmark school desegregation cases.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plates and Plate Boundaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity adapted from NASA features world maps that identify different sections of the Earth's crust called tectonic plates. The locations of different types of plate boundaries are also identified, including convergent,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Conservation: Denver, Co

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis explores the use of new dams as a way to provide or store water. In the 1990s, the city of Denver was looking for a new source of water for its growing population, and its plan to build a new...
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Pbs Learning Media: How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by...
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Pbs Learning Media: Glaciers

For Students 9th - 10th
Featuring images of glacier formations, this interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service explains what glaciers are, where they are found, how they form, and how they move.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mount St. Helens: Before and After

For Students 9th - 10th
This multimedia resource produced for Teachers' Domain chronicles the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Featured are still images of the devastation, video of the eruption plume, and before-and-after satellite images of the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Minerals in Our Environment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What minerals are in your toothpaste? A pencil? A telephone? This interactive resource adapted from the U.S. Geological Survey illustrates the variety of minerals used in everyday items found in kitchens, bathrooms, offices, and yards.
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Pbs Learning Media: Anatomy of a Volcano

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online, explore the main features of the Nyiragongo volcano, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and learn what risks it poses to the 500,000 people who live in its shadow.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain shows the relationship between tectonic boundaries and the locations of earthquake events and volcanoes around the world.
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Pbs Learning Media: Volcanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Volcanoes are one of the most dynamic, powerful, and visible forces on Earth. This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service uses images to describe different types and parts of volcanoes, volcanic rocks, magma, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: How Big Is Our Universe?

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.
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Pbs Learning Media: Explore the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
See what it is like to walk on the moon by viewing this collection of QuickTime images from NOVA Online. Stunning 360-degree panoramas from each of the six successful Apollo moon landings are featured.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Do Avalanches Form?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, dramatic footage of avalanches and animations of ice crystals illustrate how a layer of weakly-bonded snow can contribute to a devastating avalanche. [4:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
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Pbs Learning Media: Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the difference between weather and climate and features groundbreaking analysis revealing that Earth's climate has changed much faster than previously believed. [5:48]
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Pbs Learning Media: Mountain Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online you can move an air mass over a mountain and see how several distinct microclimates are created.
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Pbs Learning Media: Giving Rise to the Jet Stream

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from NOVA Online uses animation and graphics to offer a detailed explanation of the jet stream. A thorough account is given of the role played by the Sun's heat and Earth's shape and rotation, among other factors.
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Pbs Learning Media: Eleventh Commandment Flyer

For Students 9th - 10th
This flyer from the 1962 Birmingham selective buying campaign encourages African Americans to boycott discriminatory businesses; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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Pbs Learning Media: Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
These materials document the goals and activities of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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Pbs Learning Media: Briggs v. Elliott, Harry and Eliza Briggs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott.
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Pbs Learning Media: Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This audio excerpt from Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech outlines a nine-year plan to end poverty in America.
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Pbs Learning Media: Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power."
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Pbs Learning Media: Racial Discrimination, Kenneth Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, psychologist Kenneth Clark describes his research that illustrated the impact of racism on African American children.