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Pbs Learning Media: Sun, Moon, and Star Patterns in the Sky: Lesson Plan

For Students K - 1st
Observe how the Sun, Moon, and stars are visible in the sky at different times of the day and identify predictable patterns in the apparent motion of these objects with this WGBH lesson plan. Students record and analyze data to identify...
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Professional Doc
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Pbs Learning Media: Space: Bringing the Universe to the Classroom: Collection

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn to identify and predict daily patterns of motion of the Sun, Moon, and stars across the sky with various media, including an interactive storyboard featuring the beloved characters from PEEP and the Big Wide World. For a printable...
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Interactive
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Pbs Learning Media: The Pattern of the Moon's Changing Appearance

For Students K - 1st
Students use an interactive model to gather evidence about the visible Moon's changing pattern over 30 days in this resource from Astronomy Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They use this evidence to record and make...
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Pbs Learning Media: Different Appearances of the Moon

For Students K - 1st
The digital slideshow provides students with the opportunity to observe and use evidence from their observations to predict and record how the Moon appears to follow a regular pattern of change over time. Teaching tips and background...
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Pbs Learning Media: Changes in the Sky: Interactive Lesson

For Students K - 1st
Explore real-life and animated views illustrating the daily patterns of motion of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky. Students engage with a variety of media such as an interactive storybook, time-lapse videos, and images to identify...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sky Patterns: Sun, Moon, and Stars

For Students K - 1st
Observe the regular, predictable patterns of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky in this media gallery from WGBH. Interact with the animated storybook to observe and predict patterns of the Sun, Moon, and stars over a day and analyze...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mapping Landforms and Water Bodies: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about different landforms and water bodies and the various characteristics that make them distinct from one another in this lesson plan from WGBH. Navigate around a virtual island to unlock information -- including videos and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fast and Slow Changes on Earth's Surface

For Students K - 1st
Observe fast and slow events that change the face of Earth's surface with this slideshow. Students will use evidence from videos and images to describe how changes on Earth's surface can happen quickly or slowly. Students will have the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water

For Students K - 1st
Navigate around the island to explore various landforms and water bodies in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING. Journey around the island and pick up trash to unlock information - including videos and ground-level and aerial images...
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: The Water Planet

For Students K - 1st
Observe different forms of water and how it covers about 75 percent of Earth's surface in this media gallery captured by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Use the satellite and ground images in this resource to enhance student...
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Pbs Learning Media: Severe Weather

For Students K - 1st
Observe various severe weather phenomena in this image gallery from WGBH. Weather is the combination of factors -- temperature, wind, snow or rain, and sunlight and clouds -- that happen in a specific place at a specific time. Sometimes...
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Pbs Learning Media: Weather: What Is Weather?: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn how weather is the combination of four factors -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- that occur at a given place and time in this lesson plan from WGBH. The mix of factors is changing all the time;...
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Unit Plan
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Pbs Learning Media: Weather: Collection: Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms

For Teachers K - 1st
Get up close to a variety of weather conditions, encounter local weather patterns through spectacular imagery, and learn how to observe and describe different weather conditions with the beloved characters from PEEP and the Big Wide...
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Graphic
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Wind and Water Change Earth's Surface

For Students K - 1st
Observe how wind and water reshape the face of Earth's surface with these slideshows. Students will use evidence from videos and images to observe and describe how wind and water contribute to natural events that are constantly reshaping...
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Graphic
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Map It

For Students K - 1st
Explore different types of maps and how different things are represented on maps in this media gallery from WGBH. Maps are used to help locate different places and different things. Map symbols are representations of larger things in the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Snowstorm Clues

For Students K - 1st
Explore how weather can change during snowstorms in this slideshow produced by WGBH. The images show the progression of snowstorms from a light flurry to a steady snow to a blizzard to conditions after a storm ends. Students can use the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Sink or Float Educator Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is an educator's guide for a unit on things that sink or float. It includes lesson plans, experiments, and activities. Students apply the scientific method as they investigate whether objects sink or float.