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Pbs Learning Media: Family Meal Time
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan promote basic nutrition & appropriate portion-size as well as family meal-time interactions. Using these materials, students will understand that it is important to eat foods...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fruits
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on fruits. Using these materials, students will understand that eating whole fruits each day helps to...
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Pbs Learning Media: P Is for Protein
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on protein. Using these materials, students will understand the role of protein in their health...
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Pbs Learning Media: Exercise
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on physical fitness. Using these materials, students will understand the role exercise plays in their...
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Pbs Learning Media: Carbohydrates and Sugar
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on carbohydrates and sugar. Using these materials, students will understand and categorize foods that are made...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fiber
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos give an overview of fiber and the important role it plays in the body's digestion, and teach students how fiber removes toxins from the body, the different types of fruits, vegetables and nuts in which...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Song: Amigos
Learn about friendship in this Spanish melody. Song also teaches Spanish vocabulary throughout the song. [1:15]
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Pbs Learning Media: August Wilson on Writing
In this video [4:35] from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand, Wilson and others discuss his unique writing process. Discussion questions are provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Writing From Art: August Wilson and Romare Bearden
This video [1:51] from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand introduces the play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," which was inspired by the painting "Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket" by Romare Bearden. In the support materials students...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fences by August Wilson
In this video [5:25] from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand scholars discuss "Fences," the Tony Award-winning drama about a former Negro League baseball player and his family. The video features performances of two scenes from...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Piano Lesson
"The Piano Lesson," the 1930s-era drama from August Wilson's century cycle is discussed in this video [5:16] from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand. The video features commentary on the ways in which "The Piano Lesson" reflects...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: August Wilson
This is a collection of six video lessons about August Wilson and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection.
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Pbs Learning Media: Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston: Alice Walker
In this video (2:20, Alice Walker discusses how Zora Neale Hurston's ability to portray black people as "undiminished human beings" shaped her as a writer. This is evident in The Color Purple which, like Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Alice Walker
This is a collection of three video lessons about Alice Walker and her works from the PBS American Masters Collection.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sandburg and Lincoln
This video [5:57] from American Masters: "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" highlights Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln. Known for his poetry, Sandburg began writing a short story about Lincoln meant for children. It soon became a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Carl Sandburg: Poet of the People
In this video [3:17] from American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died, students learn about Carl Sandburg and his early days as a "poet of the people." As a young man, Sandburg worked as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party of...
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Pbs Learning Media: The People, Yes
This video [6:19] from American Masters: "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" examines Carl Sandburg's epic poem, "The People, Yes." Published at the height of the Great Depression, Sandburg was inspired to write "The People, Yes" for those hit...
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Pbs: Carl Sandburg: Chicago: American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died
This video [4:28]from American Masters: "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" highlights the turning point in Sandburg's life when his poem "Chicago" was first published in Poetry Magazine. Published in 1914, this poem still captures the...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Carl Sandburg
This is a collection of lesson videos about Carl Sandburg and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection.
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Pbs Learning Media: Even if They're Wrong, They're Right: American Masters
Celebrated American novelist Phillip Roth is the author of 27 award-winning books - most of which have received national and/or international critical acclaim. In this video segment [1:18], Roth shares many of the details of his unique...
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Pbs Learning Media: I Work Every Day: American Masters
In this video segment [3:31], award winning novelist Phillip Roth elaborates on the details of his writing process and work environment preferences. Roth strongly believes that "life isn't good enough" as a point of reference when it...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Phillip Roth
This is a collection of two video lessons about Phillip Roth and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection.
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Pbs: Funding the Statue of Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a gift from France, however the statue was given without a pedestal to support it. Discover how newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer helped start a campaign to fund a pedestal for...
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Pbs: Pulitzer and Roots of Modern Journalism: J. Pulitzer: Voice of the People
The 19th century was the world of print, and the master of that world was Joseph Pulitzer. Discover how Joseph Pulitzer transformed the newspaper industry in this video [6:43] from the American Masters film Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the...