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Pbs Learning Media: The Female Workforce

For Students 9th - 10th

Irish women discuss social and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century in this video from Wide Angle.

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Pbs Learning Media: Birds of a Feather

For Students 9th - 10th

Birds of a Feather shows a variety of birds and asks students to explain the expression: Birds of a feather flock together.

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Watercraft (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build an unsinkable boat out of straws and plastic wrap that can hold twenty five pennies. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Also, includes...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Zip Line (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to design and build a ping-pong ball carrier that can go from the top of a zip line string to the bottom in four seconds or less. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Touchdown (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a shock-absorbing system that will protect astronauts when they land on the moon. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Roving on the Moon (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a rubber band-powered cardboard car (rover) that can scramble across the room. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign the car if necessary. Activity focuses on...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Heavy Lifting (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a cardboard crane for a moon mission and see how heavy a load it can lift. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: On Target (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to modify a paper cup so it can zip down a line and launch a marble on a target. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Feel the Heat (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to heat things up by building a solar hot water heater. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process and the...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Dance Pad Mania (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a dance pad that lets you use your feet to either flash a light or to sound a buzzer. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign the pad if necessary. Activity...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: High Rise (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a tall tower that can support a tennis ball. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary, or take it to the next level. Activity focuses on the engineering...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Motorized Car (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to make a car that uses a battery-operated motor. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Also, includes ideas for taking your design to the next level....

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Pop Fly [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to design and build a way to launch a Ping-Pong ball high enough to catch it. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering...

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Pbs Learning Media: Romiya Glover

For Students 9th - 10th

In this video from Science City, meet Romiya Glover, a chemist who develops products for HIV/AIDS testing. She describes the multidisciplinary nature of her job, how she decided to go into science, and how her work benefits others.

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Pbs Learning Media: Brown Reactions: Judge Brady

For Students 9th - 10th

This 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision.

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Pbs Learning Media: The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today

For Students 9th - 10th

Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa give way to gravity? In this interview from the NOVA Web site, engineer John Burland relates the difficult job of saving the tower.

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Pbs Learning Media: Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th

Explore this NOVA: "Spies That Fly" interactive timeline and discover the many technological innovations in the history of unmanned flight, from hot-air balloons to miniature flying robots.

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Pbs Learning Media: Chalk Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th

In this video segment from Art in the 21st Century: Paradox, two artists create a public art piece using giant pieces of chalk.

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Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem

For Students 9th - 10th

Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.

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Pbs Learning Media: Ancestors Talk Through Drums

For Students 9th - 10th

In this segment from EGG:the arts show, meet Camilo Gaetan who is becoming a master drummer.

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Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th

This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.

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Pbs Learning Media: Classroom Tips

For Students Pre-K - 1st

From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.

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Pbs Learning Media: Botswana Today

For Students 9th - 10th

Learn about the achievements and national problems of the African nation of Botswana in this video segment from Wide Angle.

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Pbs Learning Media: Labor Disputes

For Students 9th - 10th

In this Wide Angle video, view a case study of the mediation of a disagreement between an employee and his former employer in China's courts.

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