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Pbs Learning Media: Becoming a Fossil
This video segment describes how the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy could have been fossilized. Footage courtesy of NOVA: "In Search of Human Origins." [2:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Teaching Evolution Case Studies: Bonnie Chen
Bonnie Chen builds on students' prior knowledge of mutations to lead her class through a simulation of wading birds feeding. [14:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: Who Was Charles Darwin?
This video from Evolution highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring to light his theory of evolution through natural selection. [6:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Finding Lucy
This Evolution video segment depicts the landmark hominid fossil finds by Don Johanson and his team in Ethiopia. [4:32]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: How Do We Know Evolution Happens?
This video from Evolution focuses on one of the several lines of evidence for evolution -- fossils, highlighting the evolution of whales from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic creatures we know today. [6:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: Did Humans Evolve?
This video from Evolution explores the evolution of humans from a common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and other apes. [5:28]
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Pbs Learning Media: Permian Triassic Extinction
In this video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction. [2 min, 20 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Toxic Newts
The father and son team of Brodie and Brodie track down the predator able to stomach a mysteriously hyper-toxic newt, an example of an evolutionary arms race in action. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race." [5:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Walking Tall
This video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations" illustrates the differences between the skeletons of a chimpanzee (a knuckle-walker) and a human (a biped). [57 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Common Genetic Code
Paul Nurse describes his research that showed that humans share some genes with organisms as different from us as simple brewer's yeast. Footage from Secret of Life: "Immortal Thread." [4 min, 20 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Genetic Tool Kit
The shared set of genes for body segments, possessed by all animals, are discussed in this video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations." [4 min, 23 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Teaching Evolution Case Studies: Marilyn Havlik
Marilyn Havlik leads students through a simulation of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle to develop their understanding of population genetics. [13 min, 59 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hiv Immunity
Although repeatedly exposed to HIV, Steve Crohn's blood cells were never infected. Dr. David Ho investigates in this video segment from NOVA: "Surviving AIDS."
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Pbs Learning Media: From Dna to Protein
This narrated animation schematically shows the process of protein synthesis. [3 min, 24 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sources of Light
This video clip shows a number of different light options and asks students to answer the question, where does light come from? [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
This video segment from NOVA: "18 Ways to Make a Baby" describes a technique used to determine the health of a developing embryo. [3:35]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kismet
In this video segment adapted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory working to engineer smarter robots are now building a machine that interacts socially with people.
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Pbs Learning Media: Plate Tectonics: The Hawaiian Archipelago
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses animation to show the relationship between the movement of a tectonic plate and whether volcanoes on the Hawaiian Islands are active or dormant. 4m 38s
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Pbs Learning Media: Burrowing Owl
In this video segment from Outdoor Nevada, learn about burrowing owls, yearlong residents of open, dry grassland and desert habitats, and the only owls that nest underground and are active both day and night. [1:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Tarantulas
This video segment from the Nevada Department of Wildlife looks at tarantulas' survival skills and their habitat. [3:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: Desert Tortoise
This video segment from Outdoor Nevada examines threats to the desert tortoise population. [4:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hawaiian Coastal Cliffs
This video segment from Nature explains the geologic forces behind the creation of Hawaii's dramatic shoreline. Can be viewed full screen. [1:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clouds and Currents
Learn about cloud formations over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in this video from Nature. [1:33]
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Pbs Learning Media: Raven Adaptability
This video segment from Nature features ravens, the most intelligent birds in the crow family. [3:00]