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Pbs Learning Media: Higher and Faster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive instructional activity, students will explore the social factors, economic factors and engineering innovations that drive higher and faster commercial flights.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Grab It and Run

For Students K - 1st
Explore wearable science and try to make it to the finish line of this special relay race without breaking any materials in this activity.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Showtime

For Students K - 1st
Explore wearable science and use materials found around your classroom or your house to create costumes and dress-up a mini Ruff for his next show.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Photo Stuff With Ruff

For Students K - 1st
Discover what the "stuff" in your world is made of in this camera-based app experience from The Ruff Ruffman Show.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Dress That Rhino

For Students K - 1st
Use science inquiry to explore, test, and document material properties to help dress up Fluff the Rhino for Ruff's pet-sitting adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: What Should Fluff Wear?

For Students K - 1st
Help Fluff the Rhino dress for a trip in this activity from The Ruff Ruffman Show. Fluff will need different clothing.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Wearable Science

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about wearable science and material properties alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Build It Up, Knock It Down

For Students K - 1st
Explore structural science and compete in a building contest where each team builds a structure without using tape and then tries to knock the other one down using only paper.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Tower Time

For Students K - 1st
Explore structural science and try to stack a tall, stable tower in this building activity.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Hamster Run

For Students K - 1st
Use the engineering design process to build, test, and redesign structures to help the hamsters reach their food.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Architecture Scavenger Hunt

For Students K - 1st
Explore structural science and look for shapes around your school or in the buildings in your neighborhood.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Structures

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about structures alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Tips for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help children learn easy ways to stay physically fit, in this guide from Arthur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Background Information

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Teach children about nutrition with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Travel Translations

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Be safe when traveling. Choose a language to show anyone who touches your food that you have a serious allergy to peanuts, in this activity from Arthur: "Binky Goes Nuts."
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Pbs Learning Media: Pearl Diver

For Students 6th - 8th
Play a fast-paced video game that involves finding rational numbers on the number line. This game from Math Snacks focuses on using what you know about positive and negative numbers and fractions to place them correctly on the variable...
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Pbs Learning Media: 5 Back to School Tools to Add to Your Teacher Toolkit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Five Top Places to "Buy" New Ideas: Pinterest, PBS LearningMedia, STEM learning, EFPractice, and STEM and the six cross-cutting concepts. Information about each of the above resources is available on this site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 4: Digital Activity Stand Up Game (Grades 3 5)

For Students 3rd - 5th
This game offers students Grades 3-5 a chance to read and discuss different situations and consider how they would handle each using the practice using S.A.F.E. to be assertive. Play online within PBS LearningMedia or select the download...
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Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 2: s.w.a.p. Student Practice Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Situation or worry requires students to develop an action thought (S.W.A.P.) for a variety of sample scenarios provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Printable Thankful Time Notes

For Students Pre-K - K
These notes are a great way to show thanks and appreciation for the special people in your students' lives.
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Understanding Air: Air Pollution & Modeling Pollutants With Lego Bricks

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this lesson, students learn about the chemical reactions that release various pollutants into the atmosphere and what happens when pollutants in the air are exposed to sunlight. They model incomplete combustion using LEGO bricks, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Asu: Compass for Courage

For Students 3rd - 8th
COMPASS uses collaborative game-based learning to teach youth research-backed strategies to manage worries, solve problems, build relationships, and face stressful situations with confidence. This six-lesson plan has shown to improve...
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Pbs Learning Media: Tre Maison Dasan: Classroom Viewing Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Classroom Viewing Guide for use with the film Tre Maison Dasan.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tre, Maison, Dasan: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three boys growing up in Rhode Island, each with a parent in prison. Each boy is very different, possessing different attributes and surrounded by different environments. Told directly through...