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Pbs: The Question of God

For Students 9th - 10th
Website providing information and additional resources for a four-hour series called The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, by Dr. Armand Nicholi. Includes facts about and works...
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Pbs: Lost Liners: Lusitania

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS documentary about famous shipwrecks reviews the sinking of the Lusitania and the salvage efforts undertaken by deep-sea archaeologist Bob Ballard, who explored the wreckage in 1993.
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Pbs: Matters of Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to "Matters of Race" PBS program, which explores what makes a race, who decides what race means, the issues faced by people of mixed race, and the future of race in America. Includes essays, an area for sharing personal...
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Pbs: The Story of India

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website for "The Story of India," a six-part series on India first aired by PBS in January 2009. Covers 10,000 years of Indian history and culture. Includes video clips from the series, an interactive timeline, a sumptuous...
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Pbs: The War: North Africa (1940 43)

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," find a write-up about the the campaign in North Africa, which was fought over control of the Suez Canal. With links to related resources, including archive photos and...
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Pbs: Building Big: Dams

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of resources about dams that includes basic facts about dams, challenges faced by dam builders, famous dams from around the world, and a lab that helps you understand different kinds of shapes used to construct dams. Also...
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Pbs: Nova: The Boldest Hoax

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning with a description of a NOVA program on the scientific hoax of the Piltdown Man, this site also offers a podcast interview with an archeologist, a transcript of the program, and a teacher's guide. While there is no proof of who...
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Pbs: Prelude to War: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to Manifest Destiny - the period in American history covering continental expansion. In sharp contrast is Mexico's struggle to recover after gaining its freedom from the Spanish. Links and drop down menus provide detailed...
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Pbs: Technology and Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical survey of people who had an impact on 20th century technology and science, including Wallace Carothers, Rachel Carson, Lee de Forest, Henry Ford, Jay Forrester, Grace Murray Hopper, Guglielmo Marconi, William Shockley,...
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This PBS site provides an introduction and the full text to the speech written and given by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1853 commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Pbs: Leakey Family Discovers Human Ancestors

For Students 9th - 10th
The PBS site covers the Leakey family and their discoveries in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. This information was part of a PBS exploration of human evolution.
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Pbs: Chief Joseph

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS-People in the West site provides an excellent biography of the great Native American leader, Chief Joseph. The site includes a photo and his famous surrender speech.
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Pbs Online: Journey Into Amazonia's Powerful Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS Online explores the useful plants of the Amazon valley from the rain forest Amazonia. Content highlights a variety of selected plants: Astrocaryum aculeatum Meyer, Bactris gasipaes, Hevea brasiliensis, Oenocarpus...
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Pbs: Activities for the Classroom: Permawhat?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a an online activity on permafrost. The objectives are stated, there is background information, an activity, an evaluation, and additional web resources.
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Pbs: M, M, M (Maps, Maps, Maps)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online activity on Topographic maps with stated objectives, an activity, background information, evaluation, and resources. This site has information on where you can adjust the activity for elementary or secondary age levels.
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Pbs the West: Chief Joseph Speaks

For Students 9th - 10th
This Archive of the West site provides selected statements and speeches of the great leader of the Nez Perce Indians. They are reprinted from Chester Anders Fee's "Chief Joseph: The Biography of a Great Indian" which was published in 1936.
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Pbs: Nova: Night Creatures of the Kalahari

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on animals that can see in the dark and learn more about them.
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Pbs: Destination America

For Students 9th - 10th
Why did they come? When did they come? Find out the answers and learn much about immigration to America that has been going on for generations.
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Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS presents this report by Bill Moyer on the current state of the earth. Information is provided on each of the planets ecosystems as well as ways to get involved. You are even able to access portions of the program that was aired.
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Now With Bill Moyers: School Vouchers Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth look at vouchers and the effect on education. Included on this site is a timeline, links to No Child Left Behind, American Education History, Pro-Con Voucher Debate, 2004 Election and educational materials.
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Pbs: Tesla Inside the Lab the Tesla Coil

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the PBS companion site to a video about Tesla. This particular page reviews Tesla's most notable invention, the Tesla coil. It's components are described as well as their general uses.
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Pbs Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a must see for any lesson or unit on biotechnology! It is a companion to the PBS video "Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home," although it can certainly be used without the video. It's a fantastic site that will challenge...
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Pbs Bloodlines: Making Precedent

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent site where students are challenged to read several case studies and make choices about what they would do in the situation. After they choose they are presented with some of the consequences that their decision may produce in...
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Pbs: Rough Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Website companion to PBS show, "Rough Science," in which five scientists use their collective expertise to complete a series of tasks. Follow the scientists as they do things like generate electricity, make soap, make antibacterial...