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Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of Technology: Cars
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of the automobile and the development of mass production. [4:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Organic Farming: Conserving Top Soil
Against the backdrop of the devastating 1930's Dust Bowl, this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles an organic farmer and the techniques he uses to conserve topsoil.
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Pbs Learning Media: Phases of the Moon
When we look up at the night sky, why do we see the Moon's appearance changing over time from a full sphere to a crescent to nothing at all? Find the answers in this interactive resource adapted from the National Air and Space Museum.
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Pbs Learning Media: Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change
Using images and graphs, this interactive resource illustrates scientists' efforts to study Earth's climatic history for the last 250,000 years by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet and examining ice cores. Includes background reading...
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Gong Lum v Rice
The Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: El Nino's Influence on Hurricane Formation
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains how and where hurricanes develop. Learn how El Nino events alter the course of atmospheric circulation. Includes background reading material and discussion...
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Pbs Learning Media: Meteor Showers
This video segment adapted from NASA uses animation to illustrate the properties of meteor showers and comets. Included is are visualizations of a comet's tail and of Earth passing through a debris stream left behind by meteoroids.
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Pbs Learning Media: Global Trends Quiz
In this interactive quiz from NOVA, take the Environmental Challenge and test your knowledge of human impact on the world's natural resources and climate.
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Phases
Water can exist in three different phases. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features examples of water in liquid, solid, and gas states.
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Pbs Learning Media: Segregation Ordinances: Birmingham, Al
This document from 1951 spells out Birmingham's segregation ordinances, the laws requiring the separation of the races.
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Pbs Learning Media: Decomposers
Without the work of decomposers, living organisms would eventually use up all the raw materials in the environment, and dead organisms and wastes would pile up. This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" describes the role of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Why Doesn't the Moon Fall Down?
In this animated video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Doris Daou explains how the forces of speed and gravity keep the moon in a constant orbit around Earth. [1:36]
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Pbs Learning Media: How Hurricanes Form
This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.
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Pbs Learning Media: Deforestation in Bolivia
This visualization adapted from NASA features two satellite images from 1984 and 2000 that show the dramatic deforestation of the Bolivian rainforest. Includes background reading material and discussion questions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Chernobyl: What Really Happened?
This text excerpt from "Nuclear Renewal" by Richard Rhodes examines the causes of the Chernobyl accident. Reprinted on the online home of FRONTLINE, the series on PBS.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lego Robots
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members enter the FIRST LEGO League Challenge tournament and work as a team to program their LEGO robot to navigate a complex obstacle course. [6:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Naacp, Constance Baker Motley
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Justice Constance Baker Motley recalls her role as an NAACP attorney in landmark school desegregation cases.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plates and Plate Boundaries
This interactive activity adapted from NASA features world maps that identify different sections of the Earth's crust called tectonic plates. The locations of different types of plate boundaries are also identified, including convergent,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Conservation: Denver, Co
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis explores the use of new dams as a way to provide or store water. In the 1990s, the city of Denver was looking for a new source of water for its growing population, and its plan to build a new...
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Pbs Learning Media: How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil
This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by...
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Pbs Learning Media: Glaciers
Featuring images of glacier formations, this interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service explains what glaciers are, where they are found, how they form, and how they move.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mount St. Helens: Before and After
This multimedia resource produced for Teachers' Domain chronicles the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Featured are still images of the devastation, video of the eruption plume, and before-and-after satellite images of the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Minerals in Our Environment
What minerals are in your toothpaste? A pencil? A telephone? This interactive resource adapted from the U.S. Geological Survey illustrates the variety of minerals used in everyday items found in kitchens, bathrooms, offices, and yards.
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Pbs Learning Media: Anatomy of a Volcano
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online, explore the main features of the Nyiragongo volcano, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and learn what risks it poses to the 500,000 people who live in its shadow.