Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Little Brain, Big Journey

9th - 10th
This Nature video shows the migratory patterns and habits of the Rufous hummingbird. [2:41]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Bear Necessities

9th - 10th
This Nature video segment focuses on the four foods most important to the grizzly bears' survival, and it describes the threats to the supply of each of them. [3:56]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Summer

9th - 10th
See the many birds that spend their summer in the Arctic in this video segment from Nature. [2:52]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Testing Intelligence

9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, scientific experiments test how ravens think. [2:01]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: Public Health

9th - 10th
This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets connects public health to the availability of clean and safe drinking water and elaborates on the threats our bodies face due to increasing kinds and quantities of pollutants.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Inventing Bar Graphs

3rd - 8th Standards
The CyberSquad creates a bar graph representing the amount of bugs that are infecting the Cybrary in this video from Cyberchase.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Fireworks! Making Color

9th - 10th
What gives a fireworks display its brilliant blue, green, and red colors? Learn how pyrotechnicians give fireworks color in this video segment adapted from NOVA.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fireworks! Lifting Charge

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how pyrotechnicians use common compounds to blast fireworks into the sky and give them shape.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA reveals the unexpectedly rich ecosystems researchers found when they looked more closely at the seafloor near mid-ocean ridges.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Hurricanes: New Orleans Under Threat

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW exposes how decades of development and geography combined to make the potential damage from a hurricane uniquely devastating in New Orleans, Louisiana. [5:45]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Do You Keep Lemonade Cool?

3rd - 8th
This video segment adapted from FETCH! shows contestants experimenting with different materials to see which is the best insulator and thus best able to keep the lemonade at their stand cool for customers.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Building a Dam Like a Beaver

Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment from WGBH, children make a dam with dirt, sticks, and stones to try to stop the flow of water.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Religious America

9th - 10th
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn about Muslims in Lawrenceville, Georgia, their plans to build an Islamic cemetery and the stiff objections from their Christian neighbors. [7:59]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 1

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino is pining away for Lady Olivia, but refuses to do anything about it. In addition, Olivia is mourning for her dead brother and has vowed to be...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 2

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Olivia sends a ring to Cesario via Malvolio under the pretext that he (Viola) had dropped it. Viola realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her (or...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 5

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Maria drops a love letter supposedly written by Olivia to Malvolio in his way. Malvolio reads it and resolves to change his behavior to secure Olivia's...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Pigeon Perch

Pre-K - 1st
In the video, Curious George wants to make Compass the Pigeon the perfect perch so the bird can feel right at home. But it takes a lot of research to figure out how to build a tall object that won't collapse. Students learn about the...
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Tool Time

Pre-K - 1st
In the video Camping with Hundley, Curious George needs to use his camping skills after a storm knocks out the electricity that powers the Doorman's van. He uses a mallet to build a shelter, a lighter to start a fire, and sticks to cook...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Design Inspired by Nature

9th - 10th
In this stills collage produced for Teachers' Domain, see several examples of everyday inventions that were either inspired by nature or are similar in form and function to plants or animals.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Easy Fit Design

9th - 10th
In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, Chi-An Wang, a mechanical engineering graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes her process when working with New Balance to design a new triathlon shoe.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A House for Teddy Bear

Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment from WGBH, children experiment with cardboard and build a house for their stuffed animals.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Air Bag Design

9th - 10th
Using automobile crash test footage, this video segment adapted from NOVA shows some of the challenges in designing the air bag.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Fire Safety in High Rises

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how the sprinkler revolutionized fire safety and also features developments in fire-safety design for high-rise buildings.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mad Hot Tango: Caeli Smith

9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 15-year-old violinist Caeli Smith plays a wonderful movement from Astor Piazzolla's L'histoire du tango, called Bordel 1900. [0:49]