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Pbs Learning Media: Riddle of the Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion Web site of "Evolution," the seven-episode series on PBS, piece together clues to how one of our early ancestors looked as you examine images from four significant fossil finds of Australopithecus afarensis.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plate Movement in Alaska

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, learn how tectonic plate movement is responsible for building mountains, such as the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountains. 2m 16s
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Pbs Learning Media: Ingredients for Life: Water

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA goes on a whimsical journey in search of life forms thriving in extreme conditions on Earth and in outer space. Animations show ice on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and signs that water once existed on...
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Pbs Learning Media: Primitive Insects of the Congaree Swamp

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment from NatureScene, observe dragonflies and mayflies near Cedar Creek at Congaree Swamp National Park. [5:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Smart Bridges

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about engineering innovations that could help detect a bridge's structural weaknesses before they become dangerous. [5:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Demolition Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how controlled explosions are used to demolish multi-story buildings in this interview from the NOVA: "Kaboom!" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Is Lactic Acid a Four Letter Word?

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay by exercise physiologist Patti Finke and fitness consultant Warren Finke describes the process by which our bodies transform food energy into energy that our cells can use.
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Pbs Learning Media: Laetoli Trackways Diagram

For Students 9th - 10th
View a diagram of the hominid footprints that archaeologist Mary Leakey's team found at Laetoli in Tanzania.
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Pbs Learning Media: Should We Grow Gm Crops?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) crops, and cast your vote on whether they should be grown. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: Harvest of Fear Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Night Vision

For Students 5th - 9th
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards of the Night" Web site highlights the nighttime habits and abilities of a wide range of nocturnal creatures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Egg: The Arts Show: Ben Hall of Sapelo Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Short video from Egg: the arts show in which Sapelo Island resident, Ben Hall, guides viewers through an introduction to Sapelo Island, which is inhabited by the descendants of African slaves. This is one in a series of videos about...
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Pbs Learning Media: City Horses Part I

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Carolyne DeGrammont of the Cedar Lane Stables in Queens, NY talks about why she enjoys horses in this video segment from Wild TV. [0:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Colonial House

For Students 9th - 10th
Colonial House video segment in which Colonists and the Passamaquoddy people encounter each other for the first time in a reenactment of a New England settlement in 1628. [4:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature/national Geographic: Flora's Background and Motivation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about what motivated Flora, a woman from the city, to move to the African bush in this short video from Nature/National Geographic. This is one in a series of three videos about Flora's life. [7:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: A Hard and Lonely Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Africa, Flora describes her life in the African bush of Tanzania.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: A Look at a Japanese Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
In a video segment, learn about education in Japan by watching Ken, a first-grader, attend school. [3:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Jarrod Studies Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from WILD TV, an ornithologist describes his job. [1:17]
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Pbs Learning Media: City Parrots

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about wild parrots that breed and nest in Brooklyn. [5:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: City Pigeons

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of pigeons in this video segment from WILD TV. [1:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from History Detectives, Anne Zorela, a map collector, believes she's found a map that outlines the routes of the Underground Railroad.
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Pbs Learning Media: Unforgettable Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
A family of elephants rescues a baby elephant kidnapped by a rival elephant family in this video segment from Nature. [4:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

For Students 9th - 10th
Professor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious: Cancer a New Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Short video from Curious in which Mark Davis is motivated to develop a new, less debilitating treatment for his wife's cancer. [4:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: City Horses Part Ii

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Wild TV short video in which riders discuss the benefits of coming to the Cedar Lane Stables in New York City. [2:59]