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Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Haze
In this video segment adapted from KUAC, find out why the horizon in Alaska is sometimes shrouded in pollution and what it means for climate change in the Arctic.
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Pbs Learning Media: Living From the Land and Sea
In this video segment adapted from the Alaska Native Heritage Center, discover the connections between Alaska Native subsistence culture and the natural cycle of the seasons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hunters Navigate Warming Arctic
In this video segment adapted from the National Film Board of Canada, learn how the Inuit people have used their traditional knowledge to understand and adapt to changes in their Arctic environment, particularly when hunting and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Climate Change Impacts Alaska Glaciers
This video [0:25] adapted from KTOO takes a look at Earth's warming and cooling cycles and the current atypical trend of warming that is impacting the glaciers in Alaska's Inside Passage.
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Pbs Learning Media: On the Yukon River
In this video segment adapted from the Yukon River Panel, visit fishing communities along the Yukon River and see how Alaska Native peoples exercise stewardship of salmon to ensure that it remains a central food source and cultural...
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Pbs Learning Media: Alaska Tsunami
In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. Essay, discussion questions, and links to related material included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Samoa Under Threat
In this video segment adapted from Bullfrog Films, a local climatologist talks about the Pacific island of Samoa, which is under threat from an increasing number of intense storms possibly related to global warming.
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Pbs Learning Media: Maui and the Creation of the Islands
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, portrays a dramatic telling of the story, Maui and the Creation of the Islands.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ask an Engineer
Explore some of the wonders of modern engineering in this video from the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York. Hear a diverse selection of engineers explain how things work. [7:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Engineering for the Red Planet
In this video segment from NASA, robotics researcher Ayanna Howard uses engineering to improve the intelligence of robots in space exploration.
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Pbs Learning Media: Automatic Door Opener
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, watch the design process in action as cast members create automatic door openers to open their bedroom doors while still lying down.
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Pbs Learning Media: Advances in Neurotechnology
In this video segment from Greater Boston, learn how a man with severe motor disabilities can operate a computer and move a prosthetic hand by simply thinking the commands, thanks to the combined efforts of bioengineers and neuroscientists.
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Pbs Learning Media: Grass Bridge
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, watch residents of the Peruvian Andes build a suspension bridge made entirely of grass.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Would You Turn a Bolt in Space?
In this fast-paced NASA Brain Bites video, an astronaut demonstrates the impact of microgravity on the use of tools in space. [0:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fuel Cells
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, hydrogen fuel cell cars promise pollution-free driving, but will we see them anytime soon?
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Pbs Learning Media: Transforming the Future of Flight
In this video segment adapted from NASA, learn how engineers are transforming the future of flight by designing airplanes based on principles found in nature. [3:56]
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Pbs Learning Media: Robofly
Featuring slow-motion footage of insects in flight, this video adapted from NOVA explores the engineering challenge of designing a robotic aerial vehicle that flies like a bug.
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Pbs Learning Media: Robo Snail
In this video segment adapted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a team from the Mechanical Engineering Department studies snail movement for inspiration that may lead to new forms of robotic locomotion.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks
This video segment adapted from NOVA features the youngest rock formations in the Grand Canyon, lava dams, and how they are subject to the eroding power of water.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Disappearing Aral Sea
This visualization adapted from NASA features satellite images showing how more than 60 percent of the Aral Sea has disappeared during the last 30 years.
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Pbs Learning Media: Coral Kid
In this video segment, ZOOM guest Cassie takes us on a tour of the coral reef near her home in Key Largo, Florida, and points out some of its unique features. [2:20]
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: Ice and Global Warming
This video segment [3:04] adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center details how global warming may already be responsible for a significant reduction in glacial ice, which may in turn have significant consequences for the planet.
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Pbs Learning Media: When Did the First Americans Arrive?
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, recent archeological evidence leads scientists to revise existing theories about human migrations into the Americas around the time of the last ice age.
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Pbs Learning Media: Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I
This video segment [3:33] adapted from NOVA explains why ice sheets move. To find out how fast they move, scientists carve a tunnel through a glacier.