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Pbs Learning Media: A World Tour of Clocks

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, learn about the workings of a variety of timekeepers.
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Pbs Learning Media: Estimating Costs, Estimating Profits

For Students 6th - 8th
Franklin works with Laverne to create a budget for a job painting a room, in this video segment from TV 411.
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Pbs Learning Media: Crumpets Recipe

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, Shari Spotter gets help from the CyberSquad in doubling a recipe for crumpets.
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Pbs Learning Media: Harry's Job at a Candy Store

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry uses fractions to pack boxes of truffles at a candy store.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Measurement Debate

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad helps resolve a dispute about the squares on the Gollywood Walk of Fame.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Tip on Tipping

For Students 6th - 8th
This TV 411 segment features a lesson from Question Man on how to informally calculate 15% tips at restaurants.
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Pbs Learning Media: 70% Female

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video features the women of Rwanda who have emerged as outspoken leaders and the great strides they have made toward rights and equality.
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Pbs Learning Media: Modern Boom Family

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video explores the effects of economic prosperity and secularization on family structure and beliefs in Ireland.
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Pbs Learning Media: Breaking New Ground

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle provides a look at some of the women who are leading Rwanda in government, business and promoting peace.
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Pbs Learning Media: Censorship

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, the people behind Kalam Nawaem, or "Sweet Talk," a popular Arab television, discuss how they must carefully choose their topics and tone to not only increase audience interest, but to keep their program on the air.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Rise of Divorce

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video features the Arab women of an all-female talk show discussing the rising divorce rates in the Middle East.
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Pbs Learning Media: Foot and Mouth

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Botswana.
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Pbs Learning Media: Illegal in Beijing

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, view a city area where illegal migrants from rural China live and work. [2:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Anti Immigrant Sentiment

For Students 9th - 10th
Botswanans express some of their attitudes toward the influx of Zimbabwean migrants in this Wide Angle video segment.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Rule of Law

For Students 9th - 10th
China's recent adoption of a legal system based on the rule of law is the focus of this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Suicide Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
Mohanned Abu Tayyoun describes the events that occurred on the day of his intended suicide bombing in this video segment from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Legal System Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an overview of the expansion of the legal system in China as market forces lead to new circumstances requiring legal solutions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Trust in the Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Citizen complaints demonstrate that China's legal system has not yet fully gained the people's trust in this Wide Angle video.
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Pbs Learning Media: Coin Tossing

For Students 9th - 10th
Coin Tossing shows a person flipping a coin and asks the student to describe coin-flipping as a decision making option.
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Pbs Learning Media: Innocence

For Students 9th - 10th
Innocence prompts students to write about the differences, if they think there are any, between innocence and goodness.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mug for the Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to describe the man from the clip for a police sketch artist because he had just stolen their purse/wallet.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nose Ring

For Students 9th - 10th
Video shows tribal people removing their nose ring and prompts students to think about fads and how they know where the line is between fads that are fun and those that are dangerous.
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Pbs Learning Media: Transportation

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you think that modern transportation limits our ability to see and/or enjoy what the first settlers saw and did?
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Pbs Learning Media: Underwater

For Students 9th - 10th
Explain which fish you would want to be in this school and why. [0:38]