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Pbs Learning Media: Little Brain, Big Journey
This Nature video shows the migratory patterns and habits of the Rufous hummingbird. [2:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bear Necessities
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]
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Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Summer
See the many birds that spend their summer in the Arctic in this video segment from Nature. [2:52]
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Pbs Learning Media: Testing Intelligence
In this video segment from Nature, scientific experiments test how ravens think. [2:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: Public Health
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Inventing Bar Graphs
The CyberSquad creates a bar graph representing the amount of bugs that are infecting the Cybrary in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fireworks! Making Color
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fireworks! Lifting Charge
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how pyrotechnicians use common compounds to blast fireworks into the sky and give them shape.
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Pbs Learning Media: Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hurricanes: New Orleans Under Threat
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]
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Pbs Learning Media: How Do You Keep Lemonade Cool?
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Building a Dam Like a Beaver
In this video segment from WGBH, children make a dam with dirt, sticks, and stones to try to stop the flow of water.
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Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Religious America
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]
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 1
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 2
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 5
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Pigeon Perch
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Tool Time
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Design Inspired by Nature
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Easy Fit Design
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: A House for Teddy Bear
In this video segment from WGBH, children experiment with cardboard and build a house for their stuffed animals.
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Pbs Learning Media: Air Bag Design
Using automobile crash test footage, this video segment adapted from NOVA shows some of the challenges in designing the air bag.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fire Safety in High Rises
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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mad Hot Tango: Caeli Smith
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]