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Pbs Learning Media: Cell Differentiation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from The Secret of Life school video, "Sex and the Single Gene" follow as a single fertilized egg cell divides, differentiates, and assembles into the tissues and organs of a new organism. [1:20]
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Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: Sun Centered System

For Students 9th - 10th
In the early 1600s, most people believed that the Sun revolved around a stationary Earth. This video segment adapted from NOVA tells how Galileo proved that the Sun, not Earth, is at the center of our universe.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cats

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, learn about cats. Consider the possibility that the cat may become the number one choice for pet owners.
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Pbs Learning Media: Biome in a Baggie

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]
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Pbs Learning Media: Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" looks at photosynthesis, the chemical process plants use to make their own food.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dna Workshop: Replication of Dna and Protein Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
How does DNA perform those all-important functions of replication and protein synthesis? This interactive feature, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "A Science Odyssey," will help you explore and understand the secrets of DNA.
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Pbs Learning Media: Coral Reef Connections

For Students 9th - 10th
Dive in and explore what makes this beautiful world so fragile. In this Web feature, from the PBS series "Evolution," discover how coevolution has shaped the ecological relationships among reef creatures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Growing Up, Growing Old

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This collection of six images captures the magnificence of human development -- the transformation from baby to woman.
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Pbs Learning Media: Life's Greatest Miracle: Stem Cell Debate

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay from NOVA: "Life's Greatest Miracle" explores the debate over the use of embryonic stem cells in scientific research.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cell Membrane: Just Passing Through

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive feature describes some of the most important structures and functions of the cell membrane.
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Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
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Pbs Learning Media: Technology Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pigs as Pets

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, animal lovers talk about their experiences having pigs as pets. In addition to the video, the site offers teaching tips as well as a transcript of the video and a connection to state standards.
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Pbs Learning Media: Forgotten Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated feature from the American Experience Web site highlights the frequently forgotten inventors of several useful, innovative technologies.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tornado

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how a tornado is formed and what a tornado does.
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Pbs Learning Media: Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th
Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.
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Pbs Learning Media: One Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Wide Angle describes the communist Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea.
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Pbs Learning Media: Percent as a Means to Compare Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad uses fractions and percents to compare the contest results of the Squitters, little creatures who love to jump.
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Pbs Learning Media: Multiplying Bigger Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez, Jackie and Digit use multiplication to keep track of the number of clones.
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Pbs Learning Media: Feed That Dog

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad solves the problem of giving equal parts of two apples to Cerberus, the three headed dog of Greek mythology, in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Grubby's Wacky Worms

For Students 3rd - 8th
Wicked and Digit must solve a fraction problem in order to free the CyberSquad in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Figuring Out Elapsed Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, through addition and regrouping in base sixty, Matt helps Digit figure out what time his CyberSouffle will be done.
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Pbs Learning Media: Earning 100 Snelfus

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad figures out how to earn 100 snelfus in 11 days.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Fourteenth Amendment Part Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from The Supreme Court, learn about the 1883 Supreme Court decision that marked the end of federal protections for individuals in states and the beginning of Jim Crow segregation.