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Pbs: Cut to the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about the heart. This fascinating organ will leave you breathless after you visit this informative resource.
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Pbs Nova: World in the Balance: Producers' Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the personal accounts of four filmmakers who produced segments for the PBS series "World in the Balance."
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Pbs: Who's Who of Crocodilians?

For Students 9th - 10th
Crocodiles are not the only crocodilians. Get to know the caiman, gavials, and alligator's diet, habitat, size and more.
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Handout
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Nova Online: Everest Birth of the Himalaya

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn more about the tallest mountain in the world. This page is part of an entire site dedicated to Mount Everest.
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Website
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Nova Online: Everest Climb

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the arduous route of Mallory and Irvine (and the 1999 NOVA crew) up the North Face of Mt. Everest. View 360 degree panoramic images of various high camps along the way, and one from the summit itself at this site.
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Graphic
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Seeing Through Camouflage

For Students 9th - 10th
View the pictures of animals and decide if those use concealing coloration, disruptive coloration, disguise, or mimicry to blend into their environment.
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Lesson Plan
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Pbs Teachers:flying Casanovas: Bowerbird Basics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine characteristics of bowerbirds and their bowers. Compare and contrast various styles of bowers created by bowerbirds
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Activity
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Pbs: Nova: Lost Treasures of Tibet: Designing a Mandala

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructions for designing a mandala.
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Nova: The Lives of Extremophiles

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview with a microbiologist who studies bacteria that decompose hydrogen sulfide gas and other noxious chemicals. The interview focuses on her research and her career.
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Pbs Nova Online: The Hippocratic Oath (Modern Version)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hippocratic Oath, one of the oldest surviving oaths, is provided here in a modern version written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna.
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Website
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Nova: The Extinction Enigma

For Students 9th - 10th
45,000 - 50,000 years ago the megafauna of Australia became extinct. This interview investigates several possible causes such as, continental drift, human impact, and climate change.
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Handout
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Pbs Nova: Ancient Chinese Explorers

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the different voyages of Zheng He and their significance in Chinese history. Includes good historical background and pictures.
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Website
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Pbs Nova: Eastern Island Moai (Stone Sculptures)

For Students 9th - 10th
Easter Island's famous carvings, called moai, bear silent witness to the collapse of the Polynesian culture that once thrived there. View these massive artworks and read about the deforestation of the island. An excellent site for...
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Unit Plan
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Nova: The Proof: Math's Hidden Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
Find Sofia Gemain's place in mathematics history.
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Website
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Nova: See a Reversal

For Students 9th - 10th
The earth's magnetic field is due for a reversal. Find out what causes the magnetic field and view an animated model that shows it reversing.
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Graphic
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Nova: Deep Sea Beastiary

For Students 9th - 10th
Get descriptions and pictures of numerous deep sea fish. Discover the adaptations that enable them to survive at tremendous depths.
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PPT
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Nova: Deadly Volcanos

For Students 9th - 10th
Over the past four centuries volcanos have killed over a quarter of a million people. Nine historic volcanos are briefly described in a slideshow with descriptions of each.
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Handout
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Nova: Evolution Down Under

For Students 9th - 10th
Why does Australia have so many marsupials? Find out as this resource guides you through the clues that explain this interesting mystery.
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Website
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Pbs Nova: Who's Who in Human Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Easy-to-understand chart of human evolution that traces hominins back more than six million years. Follow along using this clickable illustration right up to us, Homo sapiens. Clicking on each name will provide a brief descriptive...
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Interactive
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Pbs Nova: Historic Space Suits

For Students 9th - 10th
It sounds odd to think of some space suits as actually being historic! But we've been traveling in outer space for quite sometime and space suits were bound to change. Here is an interactive on the different aspects of space travel garb...
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Handout
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Pbs: Nova: A Plant With Smarts

For Students 9th - 10th
Not only are orchids tricky when it comes to being pollinated, they also have some tricks that help them survive in a competitive environment. Discover how orchids outwit insects to reproduce and how they have adapted to survive in their...
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Article
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Pbs: Nova: Bringing Wolves Home

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview with Ed Bangs, a wolf recovery coordinator who brought wolves back into Yellowstone National Park after a fifty-year absence.
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Nova: The River's Gift

For Students 9th - 10th
Floods do serve a purpose. Find out why farms are often grown on flood plains.
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Pbs Teachers:world in the Balance: The Growing of America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the links among population growth, immigration, environment and support of the elderly in America. Conduct a role play and explore the options available to tackle problems caused by deomgraphic trends.