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Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain shows the relationship between tectonic boundaries and the locations of earthquake events and volcanoes around the world.
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Pbs Learning Media: Volcanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Volcanoes are one of the most dynamic, powerful, and visible forces on Earth. This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service uses images to describe different types and parts of volcanoes, volcanic rocks, magma, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: How Big Is Our Universe?

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.
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Pbs Learning Media: Explore the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
See what it is like to walk on the moon by viewing this collection of QuickTime images from NOVA Online. Stunning 360-degree panoramas from each of the six successful Apollo moon landings are featured.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Do Avalanches Form?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, dramatic footage of avalanches and animations of ice crystals illustrate how a layer of weakly-bonded snow can contribute to a devastating avalanche. [4:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
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Pbs Learning Media: Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the difference between weather and climate and features groundbreaking analysis revealing that Earth's climate has changed much faster than previously believed. [5:48]
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Pbs Learning Media: Mountain Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online you can move an air mass over a mountain and see how several distinct microclimates are created.
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Pbs Learning Media: Giving Rise to the Jet Stream

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from NOVA Online uses animation and graphics to offer a detailed explanation of the jet stream. A thorough account is given of the role played by the Sun's heat and Earth's shape and rotation, among other factors.
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Pbs Learning Media: Eleventh Commandment Flyer

For Students 9th - 10th
This flyer from the 1962 Birmingham selective buying campaign encourages African Americans to boycott discriminatory businesses; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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Pbs Learning Media: Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
These materials document the goals and activities of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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Pbs Learning Media: Briggs v. Elliott, Harry and Eliza Briggs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott.
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Pbs Learning Media: Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This audio excerpt from Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech outlines a nine-year plan to end poverty in America.
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Pbs Learning Media: Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power."
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Pbs Learning Media: Racial Discrimination, Kenneth Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, psychologist Kenneth Clark describes his research that illustrated the impact of racism on African American children.
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Pbs Learning Media: Concerned White Citizens of Alabama Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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Pbs Learning Media: Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Frank Dukes describes his role in the 1962 boycott of discriminatory stores and businesses.
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Pbs Learning Media: Desegregation Mandate: Jefferson County, Al

For Students 9th - 10th
A 1967 federal court order resulted in this document, which mandated school desegregation in Birmingham.
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist: Burke Marshall

For Students 9th - 10th
Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, in this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, remembers mediating the 1962 desegregation of the University of Mississippi.
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Pbs Learning Media: Voter Registration Training Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
Students at Miles College in Birmingham developed this "crib sheet" and questionnaire to help black citizens become registered voters and to document racial discrimination in the voting process in the 1950s.
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Pbs Learning Media: Black Urban Poor, William Julius Wilson

For Students 9th - 10th
In this 1998 FRONTLINE interview, Harvard sociologist Dr. William Julius Wilson explains why, despite an overall increase in the standard of living among African Americans, a segment of the population is falling farther and farther behind.
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Pbs Learning Media: Freedom Riders, Jim Zwerg

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interview transcript from People's Century, northern civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg describes his experiences.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Class Divided 3: An Interview With Jane Elliott

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Web-exclusive interview for FRONTLINE, Jane Elliott discusses her abiding sense that her lesson on bigotry is as necessary today as it was in 1968.
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Pbs Learning Media: Get Close to a Nuclear Fission Reaction!

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how scientists regulate a nuclear reactor in this animation-enhanced essay from the FRONTLINE Web site.