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Pbs Learning Media: Flood: Farming and Erosion
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists investigate how farming along the Mississippi River impacts floods and what can be done about it.
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Pbs Learning Media: Solar Still Part I: Salt Water
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members assemble a solar still and make fresh water from saltwater, demonstrating two steps of the water cycle, evaporation and condensation. 3m 32s
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Pbs Learning Media: Triangles: Designing a Newspaper Chair
Watch the ZOOM cast build a chair out of newspaper by making good use of the strength of triangles. [4:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ancient Farmers of the Amazon
This video segment from Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race" tells the story of the leafcutter ant and the fungus it farms -- an example of mutually beneficial symbiosis. [4:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: How Dna Replicates
This narrated animation from Interactive NOVA: "The Secret of Life" illustrates DNA replication. [48 mimn]
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Sort It Out!
When Curious George invites a group of dogs home from the Dog Show, he has to figure out a way to sort them so that he can count them correctly. After watching the video, students learn about classifying objects that have common...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hexagons
In this video segment [1:55] from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad tessellates hexagons to finish crossing the lava river.
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing Electric Circuits: Door Alarm
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members design and build door alarms using a variety of materials, including aluminum foil, batteries, and buzzers. [3:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Beneath the Waters of Cocos Island
Cocos Island, a remote volcanic summit in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, serves as a beacon for hungry predators, including thousands of hammerhead sharks that travel here each year in search of prey. This video segment from NOVA:...
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Ramp N Roll
In the video Hundley's Great Escape, Curious George and the cat, Gnocchi, can easily climb out through a window in the basement when the door closes behind them. Now George must figure out how to build a ramp so that Hundley, a little...
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Conservation: Israel
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis shows how Israel has attempted to meet the challenge of providing enough water for agricultural needs. Featured are two methods: recycled water and drip irrigation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Bears in the Schoolyard
Learn about the precautions humans must take in the face of a growing grizzly bear population in this video from Nature. [3:06]
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Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Water Trombone
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, demonstrates how to use a drinking straw and a bottle full of water to make low- and high-pitched sounds. [1:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device
This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE features original footage of the U.S. test of the first hydrogen device, code-named "Mike", that would trigger thermonuclear fusion. [4:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Air Power: Making a Hovercraft
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table. Experiment instructions are also available in a PDF...
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Pbs Learning Media: Using a Compass to Find Your Way
Kelsey and Ryan show how to use a compass as they race through their orienteering course in this video segment from ZOOM. [2:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Conductivity: Kid Circuits
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members join hands and become electron conductors to complete an electric circuit. [3:32]
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Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Making Guitars
Watch the rubber bands vibrate on homemade guitars in this video segment adapted from ZOOM as cast members talk about pitch and demonstrate how to make a cereal box instrument. [2:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Static Electricity: Snap, Crackle, Jump
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, see static electricity make breakfast cereal jump and hair stand on end. [2:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Cooking Cookies With Solar Power
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, two solar cookers are tested against a control to see which can cook a "s'more" faster. [3:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sound and Solids: Visualizing Vibrations
In this video segment, adapted from ZOOM, a tuning fork's vibrations are made visible as ripples in a bowl of water. [0:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Third Law of Motion: Astronauts in Outer Space
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, NASA learns hard lessons from the first American attempt to do work while "walking" in space. The video also explores Newton's third law of motion. [4:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: Structure and Property Changes of Water
Dr. Chris Muhlstein explains the challenge of studying materials that are too small to see with the naked eye. The technique some scientists use to observe individual atoms is similar to the technique of using touch to find out the size,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Organelles in the Cytoplasm
In this video segment from An Introduction to the Living Cell, explore the inner workings of a cell, including some of its most important organelles. [3:47]