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Pbs Learning Media: The Abolitionist Map of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Through an interactive map, tours, documents, images, and videos, explore the account of the abolitionist movement in America.
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Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a complete study guide for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee including chapter-by-chapter guided reading questions (aligned to specific Common Core Standards), discussion questions, various writing prompts, and...
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Pbs: American Experience: Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Today, 2006

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS American Experience website documentary on race relations and the current struggles for equality. Site offers primary and secondary resources and links to related material.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Exp:primary Resources: Second Inaugural Address 1937

For Students 9th - 10th
President Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address delivered in 1937. In this speech FDR calls for the nation to accept and prepare to move forward.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Exp: Primary Resources: Nixon's Checkers Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
Dwight Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon, came under fire for misusing political contributions for personal expenses. These are transcripts of Nixon's speech delivered in 1952.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ask a Commodity Analyst: How to Analyze the Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of commodities market analysts present their "tricks of the trade" highlighting the data reports they rely on to effectively analyze the markets. A video, essays about the market, commodities, cash marketing, etc. and a...
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Wnet: Thirteen: What's Up in Finance?: It Costs What?

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive game helps students learn the extra costs involved with using credit cards. Find out how a group of teens can purchase the exact same products in the same store yet pay different amounts for them.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tynker Hour of Code Puzzle: Dragon Dash

For Students 5th - 8th
Students solve complex coding puzzles by applying computer programming concepts and enhance STEM learning outcomes as they play a fun coding adventure game. Learn skills such as patterning, sequencing, nested loops, conditionals, plus...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wgbh: Collisions on an Air Track

For Students 9th - 10th
Set variables for a simulated collision and observe the changes in reaction between two carts. Options include changing the weight of one cart and the type of collision to occur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Spectrometry Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive tutorial illustrates how spectrometry is used to study, identify, and quantify materials.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: All About Lizards Lesson Plan

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics, behavior, and habitat. Activities feature five species of lizards and their special body structures needed for survival.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Dome Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," think like an engineer and use your knowledge of dome design to match the right type of dome to the right location in a fictitious city.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Paper Table (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build a table out of newspaper that can hold a heavy weight. Hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary....
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Four Corners (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to build a machine out of cardboard that runs smoothly and dependably. Provides full list of materials with illustrations and ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the...
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Pbs: American Experience: Answer to Subpoena for Recordings, 1974

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the complete text of President Nixon's address to the nation in which he responds to the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for additional presidential tape recordings concerning Watergate.
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Pbs: American Experience: Resignation Announcement, 1974

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Richard M. Nixon's televised speech to the nation announcing his resignation as President of the United States.
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Pbs Learning Media: Characteristics of the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA describes the basic characteristics of our star, the Sun. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. Video length: 1 min. 28 sec.
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Pbs Learning Media: Floral Arrangements

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind.
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Pbs Learning Media: Inside a Seed

For Students 4th - 9th
This image from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine illustrates the five most important parts of a seed: the seed coat, the endosperm, and the embryo's primary root, cotyledon, and embryonic leaves.
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Pbs Learning Media: Jaws and Teeth of Mammals

For Students 9th - 10th
This image from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine illustrates the relationship between structure and function by comparing the jaws and teeth of two animals with very different ways of life: the wolf and the horse.
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Pbs: American Experience: Roads to Memphis Transcript

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete program transcript for Roads to Memphis, the first film to explore the mind of Martin Luther King Jr.'s elusive assassin.
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Pbs: American Experience: Eyes on the Prize: School Desegregation, 1957 1962

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a much larger site from PBS' American Experience's series, Eyes on the Prize, look through this multifaceted site that traces the resistance to implementing school desegregation ordered by the Supreme Court and shows the...
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Pbs: American Experience: The Gold Rush

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive site from American Experience examines many facets of the Gold Rush in California. Read a transcript of the film, find out about the many individuals and groups of people who arrived in California to try to strike it...
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Pbs American Experience: Remember the Alamo

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS companion site to the documentary film "Remember the Alamo," with much detailed information, interviews, survivor stories, maps, a timeline and reviews of historical facts and events.