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Pbs Learning Media: Using Grouping to Count Quickly

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad helps the Fairy Tale people save their king by teaching them how to count quickly by grouping.
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Pbs Learning Media: Equal Amounts of Gold

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad helps Pan and Pin divide up 15 gold bars.
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Pbs Learning Media: Importance of the Origin

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad tries to rescue the Cyberchase Council, which is being held captive by Hacker in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Competing for the Northern Hemisphere Games

For Students 6th - 8th
In this short Cyberchase video, students learn about positive and negative numbers as Harry tries to score a total of 50 points in various events to qualify for the Northern Hemisphere games in New Orleans. [3:24]
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Bianca Gets in Gear

For Students 5th - 8th
Bianca visits a bike shop and learns how bicycle gears work in this Cyberchase video segment. [3:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: A Walk Through Harlem: Finding Their Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
African Americans in the 1920's had a new attitude. In this video segment from A Walk through Harlem, learn about the Harlem Renaissance. [0:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Church for Sale

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video reports on the sale of The Sacred Heart Church in central Limerick, Ireland as the influence of the Catholic Church on Irish society dwindles. [3:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Racism in the Media

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, an Afro-Brazilian model discusses the predominance of whites in the Brazilian advertising industry.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Diverse Turkish Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment compares two women in Turkey, one from a more religious family, and the other from a more secular family. [3:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Mind Reading

For Students 9th - 10th
Mind Reading shows three different people and asks the students to write a thought for each person that was shown.
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Pbs Learning Media: Rock Concert

For Students 9th - 10th
This clip asks students to place themselves in the parents shoes and respond to their teenager's request to attend a rock concert and to think about the concerns parents have when making their decisions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Got Milk

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain what would be used to measure the properties of a glass of milk.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dustin Madden: Science Teacher

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet teacher Dustin Madden, an Inupiaq who hopes to inspire students to take an active role in protecting the natural environment by giving them a foundation in math and science.
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Pbs Learning Media: Young Inventors

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this stills collage adapted from the National Science Teachers Association/Craftsman Young Inventors Awards, see several inventions by students in grades 4-7 and read about some of the challenges they faced during the design process.
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Pbs Learning Media: More on Galileo's Big Mistake

For Students 9th - 10th
Even great scientists make mistakes! This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site looks at Galileo's theory of the tides, which, while well thought out, was wrong.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pulaski, Wisconsin Polka Town, u.s.a.

For Students 9th - 10th
The town of Pulaski, Wisconsin claims to have more musicians per capita than anywhere in the U.S. Learn about Pulaski, a town that thrives on polka music in this video segment from EGG: the arts show.
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Pbs Learning Media: Introduction to the Smoking Section

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from New York Voices, two people talk about their addiction to smoking.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Intelligent Robot

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from Curious, learn how a robot is a machine that can connect with its surroundings and has some level of autonomy.
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Pbs Learning Media: Building Video Literacy: Types of Shots [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart containing film shots from a Wide Angle documentary will help students understand how analyzing video and the use of shots is similar to analyzing texts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Building Video Literacy: Framing

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: At the University of Brasilia

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video addresses the controversy surrounding affirmitive action and racial quotas at the University of Brasilia. [3:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Power of Developers

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video features a peasant family in China that is caught in a land rights dispute with no apparent solution in sight.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Fashion Show

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, visit Istanbul, Turkey for the fashion show of Tekbir, a clothing line of conservative fashions for Muslim women. [2:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Complications of Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society. [2:53]