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Pbs/wgbh: Tectonics: Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker
A visual interactive illustrating the impact of tectonic plate motion. Users will move each plate to see what happens to the Earth's surface.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Introduce Ramps
An introductory activity where learners discover the way things roll and slide down ramps and hills.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Explore and Play: Ramps Around Us
Set up several ramps around the room and allow the students to explore and investigate how they work.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Read and Discuss: Ten on the Sled
Discussion and integrations ideas for the read aloud book, Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Explore and Play: Snowy Hills
Students make two snowy hills, one steep and one gentle, to discover their effects on rolling objects.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Down the Slide
Take the students out to the playground so they can explore things that go down the slide.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Ramps All Around
Take the students outside on a walking field trip where they can notice ramps and slanted surfaces in the neighborhood.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Steep and Steeper
Students explore what happens to a rolling object when the steepness of the ramp is increased.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Share the Day's Discoveries
Share and discuss ideas the young scholars have about ramps and rolling objects.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Share the Day's Discoveries
Discuss classroom explorations and discoveries about ramps.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Indoor Ramps
Have students make ramps out of flat pieces of cardboard and other materials.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Roll or Slide?
A classroom activity where students discover whether an object rolls, slides, or stays put.
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Pbs Learning Media: Life Stages Cards: Frog, Butterfly, and Dragonfly
All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this document undergo one of the most dramatic developmental processes known, metamorphosis. See if you can place the developmental stages in their proper order.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature: Cloud Age Four
In this short Nature video, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild. This is one in a series of three videos about Cloud. [2:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Testing With Models
In this video segment from Cyberchase, learn about the importance of creating a model as the CyberSquad designs a giant "Trojan Ducky" that will help them enter a fort without being noticed. [4:17]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: A Garden Grows in Brooklyn
Short video about a Brooklyn garden and how it serves the community as a gathering place and an escape from hectic city life. [2:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Farmers in Peril
In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.
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Pbs Learning Media: Self Reliance
This Wide Angle video segment takes a look at the North Korean ideology of self-reliance that both farmers and other workers uphold.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Explore and Play: Toy Sleds
Students experiment with different materials and objects to make a sled that will slide down the ramps.
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Pbs Learning Media: Inventing Negative Numbers
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad locates the Cyberchase Council by using negative numbers.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: A Look at a Kenyan Classroom
In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about education in Kenya by visiting the first-grade classroom of Joab, a young Kenyan boy. [2:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: An Unexpected Guest
Cyberchase video in which a man must adjust his dinner budget after his cousin unexpectedly decides to join him on his date. [3:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: Space Exploration
Students are prompted to respond to the question, do you think money spent on space exploration is justified?
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now!: If at First You Don't Succeed?
This video prompt asks students to write about something that they have worked at in order to become successful and what obstacles they had to overcome. [0:38]