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Pbs Learning Media: Rock Concert

For Students 9th - 10th
This clip asks students to place themselves in the parents shoes and respond to their teenager's request to attend a rock concert and to think about the concerns parents have when making their decisions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Got Milk

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain what would be used to measure the properties of a glass of milk.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dustin Madden: Science Teacher

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet teacher Dustin Madden, an Inupiaq who hopes to inspire students to take an active role in protecting the natural environment by giving them a foundation in math and science.
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Pbs Learning Media: Young Inventors

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this stills collage adapted from the National Science Teachers Association/Craftsman Young Inventors Awards, see several inventions by students in grades 4-7 and read about some of the challenges they faced during the design process.
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Pbs Learning Media: More on Galileo's Big Mistake

For Students 9th - 10th
Even great scientists make mistakes! This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site looks at Galileo's theory of the tides, which, while well thought out, was wrong.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pulaski, Wisconsin Polka Town, u.s.a.

For Students 9th - 10th
The town of Pulaski, Wisconsin claims to have more musicians per capita than anywhere in the U.S. Learn about Pulaski, a town that thrives on polka music in this video segment from EGG: the arts show.
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Pbs Learning Media: Introduction to the Smoking Section

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from New York Voices, two people talk about their addiction to smoking.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Intelligent Robot

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from Curious, learn how a robot is a machine that can connect with its surroundings and has some level of autonomy.
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Pbs Learning Media: Building Video Literacy: Types of Shots [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart containing film shots from a Wide Angle documentary will help students understand how analyzing video and the use of shots is similar to analyzing texts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Building Video Literacy: Framing

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: At the University of Brasilia

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video addresses the controversy surrounding affirmitive action and racial quotas at the University of Brasilia. [3:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Power of Developers

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video features a peasant family in China that is caught in a land rights dispute with no apparent solution in sight.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Fashion Show

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, visit Istanbul, Turkey for the fashion show of Tekbir, a clothing line of conservative fashions for Muslim women. [2:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Complications of Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society. [2:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Modern Muslim Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pickle Business

For Students 9th - 10th
Widows from the village of Tamra in the Galilee manage all of the aspects of their small business in this video segment from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Political Debate in Turkey

For Students 9th - 10th
A hot topic of debate in Turkey is the possibility of an increasingly Islamic state in this historically secular country. Learn more in this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Race and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, one of Brazil's few black senators discusses racial discrimination in Brazilian governmental, political and economic life.
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Pbs Learning Media: Instant Messaging

For Students 9th - 10th
This prompt asks students to write about their experience with Instant Messaging, including how long they spend online each day. The student should also include whether they think IM'ing affects their schoolwork or not.
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Pbs Learning Media: Stories in the Ice

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a journey back through time, using ice cores to learn about Earth's climatic history, including evidence of global warming and nuclear activity.
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Pbs Learning Media: Budgets

For Students 9th - 10th
Budgets shows a variety of ways money is used and asks students to list the products that they use each day and to compute how much money they will need to earn to afford to live on their own.
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Pbs Learning Media: Work Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Wide Angle, Mary, a college educated Zimbabwean migrant, describes her life and work in Botswana.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Smoking Section

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.
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Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.