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Pbs Learning Media: Microscope Use
Students are asked to explain why scientists need to adjust the position of objects under a microscope.
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Pbs Learning Media: Catch Me if You Can
Students are asked to explain the predator/prey relationship and how it helps to maintain the balance of the ecosystems.
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Pbs Learning Media: All Dressed Up
All Dressed Up shows a dog being groomed and asks the student to write a story about what the dog is thinking.
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Pbs Learning Media: Where Is the Chemistry?
After watching several outdoor activies the students are asked to explain where the chemistry is in relation to the activities shown.
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Pbs Learning Media: Countries
Shows money and different locations around the world, then asks students, if money was no object, where would you live and why? (38 sec.)
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Pbs Learning Media: The Red Dynasty
Why is the person pictured in the portrait important? Please identify him and explain.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fire
Fire shows a building under fire and asks the students to write a story about how this fire might have started.
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Pbs Learning Media: Freedom
This video clip prompts students to write about their feelings when they have visited one of the great American monuments
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Pbs Learning Media: The Game
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
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Pbs Learning Media: Holidays
Holidays video clip prompts students to write about two of their favorite family traditions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Laughing
A video from Write Now providing a unique writing prompt about laughter.
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Pbs Learning Media: Money
Video writing prompt asks, do you ever feel like you are throwing money away? Why or why not? [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: New War
How does war, with today's technology, differ from the wars in the past where soldiers fought another face-to-face?
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Pbs Learning Media: Playing
Playing shows kids playing jumprope and asks your students to create their own jump rope rhyme.
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Pbs Learning Media: Practice Makes Perfect
As we all know, practice makes perfect. This clip highlights several children playing musical instruments and challenges the students to write about a time when they felt proud of themselves for working hard at something.
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Pbs Learning Media: Priorities
This clip asks students to think about what their most valuable way is to spend their free time.
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Pbs Learning Media: Self Image
This video clip asks students to respond to the question, what does society tell you about the value of self esteem?
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Pbs Learning Media: Stupid or Smart?
This video clip highlights several dangerous hobbies/past times and asks students to explain if they would do any of these and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Pbs Learning Media: Traveling
Is it more important to know where you are going or where you have been?
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now!: Value
A video writing prompt where students are asked to consider the question, 'What do you think society values more than money?' [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Physical Therapist
This Career Clip features Justin Snyder, Physical Therapist. Justin works for an inpatient facility helping people with neurological problems, spinal cord injuries and knee or hip replacements. He suggests that if you have an interest in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Defying Gravity
Students are asked how acceleration, mass, momentum and velocity are involved in mountain boarding. [0:32]