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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Borderline Personality Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS features in-depth information on borderline personality disorder (BPD) including topics such as symptoms, helping yourself, and related personality disorders. Includes links to many outside resources.
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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Eating Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers in-depth information about eating disorders including what they are, symptoms, treatments, and how you can help yourself. Includes links to many outside resources.
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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS features in-depth information on the pursuit of happiness including topics such as helping yourself, helping others, and how to achieve it.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Moyers on Addiction: Real Life Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS online presents six stories illustrating the struggle undergone by both adults and teens. Each individual story describes a unique perspective on the substance they abused and how it adversely affected their lives.
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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Stress and Anxiety

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS features extensive information on stress and anxiety including topics such as what is stress and anxiety, how to manage them, helping others, and anxiety disorders.
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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of articles on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD: what it is, what causes it, misconceptions about it, symptoms, related disorders, treatment options, and ways the ADHD person, and the caregivers and family...
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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Resilience

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what resilience is, its relation to personal happiness, misconceptions about it, and how to increase your resilience when facing traumatic events. Includes a collection of videos of well-known figures discussing...
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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Addiction

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource on addiction. Discusses alcohol and drug addiction, their symptoms and causes, misconceptions people have about addiction, how it affects those close to the addict, different treatment options, and how to get help.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Methadone Maintenance "Invisible" Success Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how methadone is helping heroin addicts kick their addiction. This article relays general information about methadone treatment and drug programs that utilize it.
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Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Unearthing Secret America

For Students 9th - 10th
The fun part of history is finding the clues that unlock the secrets of the past. This is the companion site to the TV show with Alan Alda that features archeological discoveries. Students will find interesting lessons from the past on...
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Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Little Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know there was a global 'Little Ice Age' around the time Columbus sailed across the Atlantic? Climatologists have documented changes in temperature and how countries and people around the world were affected. What caused the LIA?...
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Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: The Arctic Our Global Thermostat

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists believe that the climate in the Arctic is an indicator of global climatic conditions. Learn what makes the Arctic so unique and how scientists use this information to predict global changes. Informative photos accompanied by...
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Pbs: Searching for Asian America

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS presents profiles of Asian American individuals, including Washington's Governor Gary Locke, as it examines what it is like to be an Asian American in the United States today.
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Pbs: Nova: Illuminating Photosynthesis

For Students 4th - 8th
To understand the process of photosynthesis, follow the hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms as they travel between the air, the plant, and the soil.
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Pbs Newshour Extra: Shot for Going to School

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, a 14 year old Pakistani girl who stood up to the Taliban's prohibition of education for women and girls.
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Pbs Newshour Extra: What Will Energy Independence Mean?

For Students 9th - 10th
What will it mean for the United States to become independent of foreign energy sources? Learn how experts are predicting this change in decades to come.
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Pbs Teachers: The Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the impact of communication system failures on victims of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Evaluate how governmental agencies in the U.S. help citizens in times of crisis and how this storm impacted their procedures.
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Pbs: Dogs and More Dogs

For Students 9th - 10th
NOVA takes a comprehensive look at the origin of different species of dogs in this feature. Interesting information like, why do they come in so many shapes and sizes, and why do they have us right where they want us is provided.
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Nova: Dig and Deduce

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation will give you the chance to be an archaeologist and do some field research on Neanderthal artifacts. Dig up the bones and then interpret the evidence.
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Pbs: American Experience: America and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides an accompanying website to their documentary on America and the Holocaust. Find special features, a timeline, an interactive map that depicts events from 1939 to 1945, primary documents and People and Events.
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Pbs: Jazz: Biographies: Ella Fitzgerald

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life of Ella Fitzgerald, from her childhood as an orphan to her rise as a successful jazz singer. Includes audio (requires RealPlayer).
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Pbs: Identity, Oppression, and Protest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan supplements a study of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The lesson is designed to help students understand the impact of Jim Crow Laws and their impact of oppression on African Americans. Blues music is shared to help...
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Pbs: Literature & Life: From Freedom to Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Some of the African-American writers and poets who spoke out eloquently about their experiences of slavery in the 1700s and 1800s are featured in this section of Literature & Life. Read powerful first-person accounts of Harriet...
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Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Wonder Red Rhyme Time Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this interactive game, the character Wonder Red reads aloud a word to prompt the player to find another word that rhymes with it. The process is repeated until the entire BINGO card reveals a printable picture.