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Pbs Learning Media: Ready to Learn Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through the Ready To Learn Initiative, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, CPB and PBS are partners in developing high-quality educational media and resources to advance critical early learning skills for children ages 2-8 to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Retro Report Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Retro Report is a nonprofit news organization that connects the past to our present. Their short videos provide both historical context and new perspectives. You can use the videos and lesson plans to inspire critical thinking and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pov's 32nd Season Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
POV's 32nd season highlights stories from women's perspectives on issues ranging from youth-led climate activism, domestic surveillance, rape culture, historical trauma, industrialized agriclture and others, with nine films showcasing...
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Pbs Learning Media: Religion and Ethics Weekly: Dr. Ben Carson Extended Interview

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Ben Carson is a renown neurosurgeon who was involved with the attempted separation of the conjoined Bijani twins. He recounts dealing with that loss and how his faith has helped him cope with a life full of risk. Dr. Carson also...
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Pbs Learning Media: Quest: Water Pollution Investigation

For Students 9th - 10th
Water pollution is the contamination of water resources by harmful wastes or toxins. This type of pollution can be dangerous to animals and plant populations in and around lakes, rivers, polluted groundwater areas or oceans, and can pose...
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Pbs Learning Media: Promoting Understanding: Islam Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this toolkit to promote understanding about Islam through study of the culture, traditions, and personal stories of Muslim Americans. Engaging videos, background essays, discussion questions, and teaching tips challenge students to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Prairie Public Education Services Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Prairie Public Education Services award winning documentaries on Germans from Russia focus on the rich history of Germans from Russia and their migration to America. Indian Pride, the 13-part cultural magazine, showcases the unique...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson plan, students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and explore how understanding these threats make us better able to avoid or reduce their potential harmful impact.
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Pbs Learning Media: Now: Do Now: Should Teens Who Commit Serious Crimes Be Sentenced as Adults?

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on Watch on YouTube to watch the FRONTLINE film "Stickup Kid." Then Do Now activity, students engage in a conversation around teen sentencing and discuss the question: Should teens under 18 be tried and sentenced as children or...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: How Opioids Change the Brain: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity module, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will understand that addiction is medically classified as a disease. They will learn about brain structure and functioning and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Facts & Fictions of Opioid Addiction/recovery/relapse: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, learners, through research, discussion and viewing the program, will learn some factual information about the opioid epidemic, addiction recovery options and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Untamed: The Wildlife Center of Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module with the video series UNTAMED: The Wildlife Center of Virginia, students will learn from Ed Clark, the staff of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, and special guests discuss the issues facing wildlife and what...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: What Is the Opioid Epidemic? Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity module is to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic. Students will learn the definitions for "opioid" and "epidemic" terms. Students will also research factors that led to the current...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Effects of Opioids on Communities, What Can Be Done: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will explore the dangers of opioids and what effects they have on whole communities. They will use critical thinking skills to think about ways the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Women & Girls in the Criminal Justice System: Lesson 3: The State of the Criminal Justice System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will look at restorative justice as a competing model, learn more about the state of the criminal justice system, and express their opinions about the topic to an elected leader. The prison population has exploded in the United...
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Pbs Learning Media: Where Words Touch the Earth Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students from American Indian Tribal Colleges interview Elders, other students, and community members to provide a Native American perspective on climate change and its effects on their communities.
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Pbs Learning Media: West Virginia Public Broadcasting: West Virginia: Steam & Inspiring West Virginians

For Students 9th - 10th
West Virginia STEAM is a learning module with a series of videos designed to inspire middle and high school students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. They are produced by West Virginia...
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Pbs Learning Media: Weird Wonderful West Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
With this learning module of videos, students will be able to discuss and examine recreation, history, exceptional individuals and groups, geography, the arts, and oddities in West Virginia. This content is appropriate for anyone with an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: But, the Doctor Prescribed It...: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will explore the misperception of safety associated with prescription opioid painkillers. They will understand the differences between prescription...
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Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This module provides a series of lessons to accompany the one-hour documentary called Understanding the Opioid Epidemic. This series investigates the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Internet's Impact on Our Culture Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of instructional videos analyzes how the internet has created a system for everyone to engag.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Good Stuff

For Students 9th - 10th
This module is led by Craig Benzine as he scours the depths of the universe and the recesses of the inner mind on a never-ending quest for The Good Stuff.
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Pbs Learning Media: The 1980s Farm Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This 90-minute film was produced by Iowa PBST Farm Crisis. This feaure examines the economic and personal disasters that afflicted the agriculture sector in the 1980s.