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Pbs Learning Media: Night Vision

For Students 5th - 9th
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards of the Night" Web site highlights the nighttime habits and abilities of a wide range of nocturnal creatures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Egg: The Arts Show: Ben Hall of Sapelo Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Short video from Egg: the arts show in which Sapelo Island resident, Ben Hall, guides viewers through an introduction to Sapelo Island, which is inhabited by the descendants of African slaves. This is one in a series of videos about...
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Pbs Learning Media: City Horses Part I

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Carolyne DeGrammont of the Cedar Lane Stables in Queens, NY talks about why she enjoys horses in this video segment from Wild TV. [0:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Colonial House

For Students 9th - 10th
Colonial House video segment in which Colonists and the Passamaquoddy people encounter each other for the first time in a reenactment of a New England settlement in 1628. [4:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature/national Geographic: Flora's Background and Motivation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about what motivated Flora, a woman from the city, to move to the African bush in this short video from Nature/National Geographic. This is one in a series of three videos about Flora's life. [7:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: A Hard and Lonely Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Africa, Flora describes her life in the African bush of Tanzania.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: A Look at a Japanese Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
In a video segment, learn about education in Japan by watching Ken, a first-grader, attend school. [3:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Jarrod Studies Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from WILD TV, an ornithologist describes his job. [1:17]
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Pbs Learning Media: City Parrots

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about wild parrots that breed and nest in Brooklyn. [5:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: City Pigeons

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of pigeons in this video segment from WILD TV. [1:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from History Detectives, Anne Zorela, a map collector, believes she's found a map that outlines the routes of the Underground Railroad.
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Pbs Learning Media: Unforgettable Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
A family of elephants rescues a baby elephant kidnapped by a rival elephant family in this video segment from Nature. [4:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

For Students 9th - 10th
Professor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious: Cancer a New Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Short video from Curious in which Mark Davis is motivated to develop a new, less debilitating treatment for his wife's cancer. [4:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: City Horses Part Ii

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Wild TV short video in which riders discuss the benefits of coming to the Cedar Lane Stables in New York City. [2:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Domesticated Pigeons

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from WILD TV features a man who raises pigeons as a hobby. [3:18]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ken

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Wide Angle features Ken, a third grade student in Japan.
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids Care

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this video segment [0:47] from Zoom, students in the Kids Care Club prepare "Bags of Love" for mothers and children.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nanavi 2006

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment features Nanavi, a 12-year old girl who struggles to stay in school.
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Pbs Learning Media: Rhinoceros Capture

For Students 9th - 10th
Rangers capture a Black rhino in the South African National Park in order to relocate him in this segment from Nature. [4:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Symbolism in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from A Walk Through Harlem features the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ronald Johnson of Sapelo Island

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from EGG: The Arts Show, resident Ronald Johnson explains that Sapelo Island is a unique place, preserving the last examples of Gullah/Geechee culture.
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Pbs Learning Media: Trackers

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from WILD TV, meet a group of trackers and learn how they track animals.
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Pbs Learning Media: Independent Lens: Debate Begins

For Students 9th - 10th
A third grade class in Wuhan province, China holds debates for the election of class monitor in this segment from Independent Lens. This is the first time education on democracy has been allowed in the city of Wuhan (most populace city...