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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Balloon Drive
Hands-on challenge "to make a helium balloon hover in one spot, then move it through an obstacle course using air currents". Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, and test the balloon's movement. Activity...
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Pbs Kids: Science Rocks: Air Lift
Through this experiment, students are challenged to lift a book (and other items) with just air. Requires simple household items, gallon-size, zipper-lock plastic bag, book, pencil, drinking straw, and tape.
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Pbs Teachers:dragonfly Tv Cup
Apply knowledge of motion, forces and lift while sailing a boat around a race course.
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Pbs Teachers: Bottle Hit and Blow Experiment
Explore the properties of glass and plastic bottles by observing sounds made when they are struck on the side or when you blow across the opening.
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Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers Show & Tell
This is a pre-k or early elementary activity. Students are given directions on how to make an egg carton car, and then practice activities with it that exercise self control.
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Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Nature Mobile
This is a pre-k or lower elementary activity. Students take a nature walk, collect things and hang them on a mobile.
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Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers Show & Tell Newspaper Doll
Tracing a child's body helps a child know where their his or her body begins and ends. This awareness is the first stage of self-control. Follow this activity to help your child understand this life skill.
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Pbs: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
This is the official website of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Explore Mister Rogers' house, the neighborhood of make-believe, and the words to all of Mister Rogers' songs. A section for parents and teachers is also provided.
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Pbs: Masterpiece Theatre: The Merchant of Venice
Online companion to a televised production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with information and analysis about the play and about the approach to the text taken by production's director and actors.
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Pbs Teachers: Earth's Warming Climate: Are We Responsible?
We obviously don't want to feel responsible for the warming climate, but are we? In this lesson plan you will analyze CO2 data sets and study barriers involved in teaching about global climate change. PBS TeacherLine also provides a...
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Pbs Kids: Electric Company: Games: Prankster Planet
Overcome obstacles to reach big red buttons and turn off the Wordsuckeruppernator, a dastardly device that has been sucking up words from planet Earth.
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Pbs Kids: Sesame Street Games
Welcome to the online world of Sesame Street! Full of fun yet educational games, activities, and videos starring all your favorite characters from the PBS series.
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Pbs Kids: Zoom Printables & Activities
Fantastic variety of printable activities that cover motion-related principles. Topics include the following: experiments (engineering, structures, forces and energy, fluids, sound and light, patterns, human body); arts & crafts;...
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Pbs Teachers: Toothpicks and Transformations [Pdf]
Using calculators, students investigate quadratic functions using geometric toothpick designs in this lesson that with a review of transformations of quadratic functions, vertical and horizontal shifts, and stretches and shrinks.
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Pbs: George Washington's First Inauguration Speech [Pdf]
A handwritten text of President George Washington's Inauguration speech from April of 1789.
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The Perilous Fight: Doolittle Raid and Midway
Read a brief account of the goal of the Doolittle Raid and its accomplishments along with a brief description of the Battle of Midway. Included is a letter written by General Doolittle, photographs of the planes, a short video, and maps...
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Pbs: The Roman Empire in the First Century: Timeline
A timeline of major events within the Roman Empire.
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Pbs: Whale Watcher
PBS site invites you to join Jean-Michel Cousteau's team as they journey along with a team of gray whales as they make their way to Alaska.
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Pbs: Interview With Jon Butler on the Mormon Religion and History
A very good interview with a historian on the origins of the Mormon Church, its early history in America and comments about the issue of dissent with the Church.
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Frontline: Sudan: The Quick and the Terrible
A 2005 examination of the ongoing crisis in Darfur. Provides profiles of all the major groups, agencies, and nations and their roles in Dafur. Also includes video interviews, relevant statistics and links to related subjects.
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Bill Moyers Journal: Al Qaeda and Iraq
A thorough examination of the connections between Al Qaeda and the ongoing war in Iraq through interviews with highly respected experts. Also provides video, links to numerous reports and books on the subject, and a forum for responses....
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Pbs: Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Barber turned butcher is the tale of this musical by Stephen Sondheim. Is the character of Sweeny Todd based off a true person? This site from PBS confronts the issues of truth or tale as you explore the culture of 18th century Britian.
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Pbs: Jean Michael Cousteau Ocean Adventures: Predator Protector
This is a great interactive game that allows players to guide three different threatened shark species to food and away from danger.
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Empire of the Bay: Who Were the Pathfinders?
Who were the men key to the Hudson's Bay Company? Read through the biographies provided through Empire of the Bay to find out.