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Pbs Learning Media: Percentages in Basketball
WNBA athletes discuss attendance at basketball games in terms of percentages in this video segment from TV 411.
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Pbs Learning Media: Farmer's Dilemma
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the new challenges the farmers of Ireland are facing amidst the country's economic boom.
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Pbs Learning Media: Private Money Lenders
The practices of illegal private money lenders in the rural region of Vidarbha, India are highlighted in this video from Wide Angle. [2:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: Jupiter: Earth's Shield
Jupiter's immense gravity protects Earth from asteroids. In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists searching for signs of life in the universe identify solar systems with Jupiter-like planets that may be shielding smaller...
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Pbs Learning Media: Immune Cells in Action
In this video segment from The Secret of Life, watch as a virus attacks a cell, and learn how the immune system reacts to this onslaught. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [1:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: His Place in Science
Einstein called Galileo the "father of modern physics." This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site looks at Galileo's quest to understand the mathematics of motion.
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Pbs Learning Media: The High Cost of Progress
Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India, in this video from Wide Angle. [2:30]
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Pbs Learning Media: Several Short Rails Make More Than a Whole
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker has sabotaged another section of the Madre Bonita Express track; Digit gets help from Deci in adding decimals to find the right size rail that will repair the track.
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Pbs Learning Media: Gorillas
Learn about the lives of gorillas born in captivity in this video segment from Nature. [8:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Voyage of Zheng He I
This video segment adapted from 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America? introduces the theory that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Decision Is Made
In this video segment from Africa, Flora explains why she is content to return to the bush.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Adolescent Brain
In this transcript from FRONTLINE: "Inside the Teenage Brain," neuroscientist Dr. Jay Giedd discusses new research on brain development in teenagers.
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Pbs Learning Media: What Causes the Gulf Stream?
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses satellite imagery to illustrate the Gulf Stream's path and animations to explain how atmospheric phenomena cause it to move. [1:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Axle the Freeway Cat
In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, a lonely cat meets a new friend in a traffic jam.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change
This short video explains how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the ecosystem and affecting the Athabaskan people, threatening their way of life. [2:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nova: The Origin of the Moon
This video segment [3:56] adapted from NOVA follows the Apollo 15 astronauts as they collect samples of ancient rock from the Moon's crust, whose discovery helps lead to a radical new theory about the Moon's origin.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Crack the Code
Cyberchase video in which the CyberSquad must get into a vault before Hacker, Buzz, and Delete by cracking a code of shapes and numbers. [3:20]
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Pbs Learning Media: Detainees
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the conditions that have caused some Zimbabweans to leave their homeland for Botswana.
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Pbs Learning Media: Early Tetrapod Fossils
In this transcript of an interview filmed for the PBS series "Evolution," scientists Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe the discovery and significance of some of their key fossil finds.
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Pbs Learning Media: La'ona De Wilde: Environmental Biologist
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues.
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Pbs Learning Media: Spin a Spiral Galaxy
This interactive activity from NOVA Online lets you spin a spiral galaxy, including our own Milky Way. It demonstrates that what you can learn from visible light observations of a galaxy is largely determined by the angle from which you...
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Albedo and Global Warming
In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate...
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Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Balloon in Car Puzzler
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to explain the behavior of a helium-filled balloon in a moving car.
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Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Boat in Pool Puzzler
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to figure out what happens to the water level when a rock is resting in a boat and when it is submerged in water.