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Pbs Learning Media: Astronaut Gene Cernan Speaks About Working in Space

For Students 9th - 10th
In this audio resource from NOVA: "To the Moon," astronaut Gene Cernan recounts his harrowing experience during America's first attempt to do work in outer space.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fossils in the Gobi

For Students 9th - 10th
Biologist Mike Novacek discusses his discovery of mammal fossils in the Gobi Desert and tells us what we can learn from them. From an episode about extinction broadcast on the PBS series "Evolution."
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Pbs Learning Media: Life & Debt

For Students 9th - 10th
The daily struggle of an Indian woman left widowed by her husband's suicide is the focus of this Wide Angle video.
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Pbs Learning Media: Israel and Palestine

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video features Majdi Amer, a 25-year-old Palestinian, who describes the daily state of violence and conflict in Israel and the occupied territories.
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Pbs Learning Media: All Dressed Up

For Students 9th - 10th
All Dressed Up shows a dog being groomed and asks the student to write a story about what the dog is thinking.
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Pbs Learning Media: Where Is the Chemistry?

For Students 9th - 10th
After watching several outdoor activies the students are asked to explain where the chemistry is in relation to the activities shown.
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Pbs Learning Media: Countries

For Students 3rd - 8th
Shows money and different locations around the world, then asks students, if money was no object, where would you live and why? (38 sec.)
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Pbs Learning Media: The Red Dynasty

For Students 9th - 10th
Why is the person pictured in the portrait important? Please identify him and explain.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Fire shows a building under fire and asks the students to write a story about how this fire might have started.
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Pbs Learning Media: Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
This video clip prompts students to write about their feelings when they have visited one of the great American monuments
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Pbs Learning Media: The Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hard Cash

For Students 9th - 10th
"Hard Cash" shows coins being sorted and asks the students to describe what metals are used in making coins and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Holidays

For Students 9th - 10th
Holidays video clip prompts students to write about two of their favorite family traditions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Laughing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A video from Write Now providing a unique writing prompt about laughter.
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Pbs Learning Media: Money

For Students 9th - 10th
Video writing prompt asks, do you ever feel like you are throwing money away? Why or why not? [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: New War

For Students 9th - 10th
How does war, with today's technology, differ from the wars in the past where soldiers fought another face-to-face?
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Pbs Learning Media: Playing

For Students 9th - 10th
Playing shows kids playing jumprope and asks your students to create their own jump rope rhyme.
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Pbs Learning Media: Practice Makes Perfect

For Students 9th - 10th
As we all know, practice makes perfect. This clip highlights several children playing musical instruments and challenges the students to write about a time when they felt proud of themselves for working hard at something.
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Pbs Learning Media: Priorities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This clip asks students to think about what their most valuable way is to spend their free time.
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Pbs Learning Media: Self Image

For Students 9th - 10th
This video clip asks students to respond to the question, what does society tell you about the value of self esteem?
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Pbs Learning Media: Sportsmanship

For Students 9th - 10th
Is winning more important than good sportsmanship?
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Pbs Learning Media: Stupid or Smart?

For Students 9th - 10th
This video clip highlights several dangerous hobbies/past times and asks students to explain if they would do any of these and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Pbs Learning Media: Traveling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Is it more important to know where you are going or where you have been?