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Zoom: Kitchen Chemistry

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you know that chemistry can be found in your kitchen? Enter this amazing virtual world where your first stop is to the kitchen. Locate the clues and move on to the Lab Journal where you can test each item in two experiments: Cabbage...
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Pbs Kids: Activities and Videos: Force/energy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Videos that accompany activities that are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
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Pbs News Hour: Iraq in Transition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides comprehensive reports on the conflict in Iraq and includes a news archive that stretches from December 28, 2010 back to 2003 and the beginning of the war. Additional features include reports on the war and Saddam...
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Pbs: Online News Hour Iraq in Transition

For Students 9th - 10th
Continual news updates concerning the situation in Iraq. Side menu bar includes these topics: reconstruction, remnants of Saddam's regime, key players, key maps, and information for students and teachers. (Updated to 28 December 2010)
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Pbs: Prohibition

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page for the three-part documentary film series covering the rise, rule, and fall of Prohibition. Extensive coverage of the consequences and people of the area with links to a plethora of first-hand photos. Readers are given the...
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Pbs: Alcatraz Is Not an Island

For Students 9th - 10th
An expose on the 19 month occupation of Alcatraz by a group of Native Americans beginning in 1969. They demanded the return of Alcatraz to Indian control and began the resurgence in the American Indian Movement.
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Frontline:secret History of the Credit Card

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this PBS site before getting a credit card. Read the "Eight Things A Credit Card User Should Know" and find out what the real cost can be to use one. Take the credit card quiz to see how much you learned.
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Frontline: Chasing Saddam's Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion on the search for the weapons of mass destruction which were given as a reason to go to war with Iraq. Tries to discover why the intelligence went wrong and why there have not been any weapons of mass destruction found. (24...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan, America's Infrastructure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
NewsHour Extra provides this lesson plan associated with its report on the problems of infrastructure of America and offers students opportunities to examine the problems and possible solutions to them.
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Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Tips of the Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Advise on finding valuable collectibles, and tools that would be useful in helping you reveal their worth.
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Arthur's World Neighborhood: Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A variety of activities, resources, and tips designed to help kids explore cultural diversity within their own communities and around the world. All suggestions based on books from the "Arthur" series, which airs on most PBS stations....
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Pbs Parents: Early Math

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This PBS site helps infants & toddlers, pre-kindergarten & kindergarten, and grades 1 & 2 with early math development. Featured activities are also available in Spanish.
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Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Raid on Harper's Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS' four-part series, "Africans in America," highlights the antislavery movement, including a focus on John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Content includes a description of the event, as well as the after-effects including the news of...
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Pbs: Africans in America the Haitian Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which tells of L'Ouverture's role in the revolution, is part of a larger PBS documentary on Africans in America. Included are a teacher's guide and a narrative of the topic. Also, make sure to use the links at the bottom of...
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Pbs: Africans in America

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS offers a four-part series on the plight of African Americans from slave days to the end of the Civil War. Resources such as interactive maps, a Resource Bank, and Teacher's Guide are available.
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Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Growth of Slavery in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the economics of slavery in South Carolina and its importance to the profitable growing of rice. It continues with ways the slaves were controlled and punished in South Carolina and Georgia. Click on Teacher's Guide for teacher...
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Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Middle Passage

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains pictures and descriptions of the Middle Passage voyage. Click on Teacher's Guide for teacher resources.
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Pbs: Africans in America: Benjamin Banneker

For Students 9th - 10th
This website describes the life of Benjamin Banneker, a free and educated black man from Baltimore, Maryland. It describes his many accomplishments.
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Pbs People and Events: Frederick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th
This survey of the life of the abolitionist-writer Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) from the PBS series includes rare photographs of Douglass. Related links.
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Pbs News Hour: Us and Russia Spy Swap

For Students 9th - 10th
Relations between the United States and Russia have always been very tumultuous but the recent capture and release of US and Russian spies has shown that while there is still a lot of progress to be made and trust to be built, the two...
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Pbs News Hour: Reformists Boycott Elections in Iran

For Students 9th - 10th
Jim Lehrer examines the 2004 Parliamentary Elections in Iran, discussing the prevalent tensions between Reformists and Conservatives in the country and how he expects the elections to affect the relationship between the United States and...
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Pbs News Hour: Afghan War Takes Toll of Civilians

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and learn about the toll that the war in Afghanistan has taken on the civilian population. (21 August 2009)
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Pbs Online News Hour: Rallying for Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
April, 2006, report depicting the controversy over the stalled Congressional immigration laws. There is major disagreement over immigration in the United States. Video, audio, and text of this report are available.
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Pbs Parents: Early Math: Games: Building Sandcastles

For Students Pre-K - K
Match the shapes with the containers used to make them.