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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]
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Pbs Learning Media: Is It Alive?
What is it that distinguishes a living organism from a nonliving object? This video presents examples that aren't as clear-cut as one might think, enticing students to question what it means to be alive. [3:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Masters of Disguise
In the face of danger, what's a spineless animal to do? This video segment introduces the concept of camouflage -- how animals achieve it and how this form of disguise benefits both predators and prey. Footage from NOVA: "Animal...
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Pbs Learning Media: Biological Invaders
This video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!" shows the impact of invasive species on native ecosystems. [3:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fish With Fingers
In this video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations," paleontologist Jenny Clack explains that vertebrates evolved fingers before they invaded land. [3:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: How Does Evolution Really Work?
The process of evolution through natural selection is the focus of this video segment from Evolution, which presents a field study of hummingbird speciation in Ecuador. [6:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolution of the Eye
Zoologist Dan-Erik Nilsson demonstrates how the complex human eye could have evolved from simple light-sensitive cells. From a PBS show called "Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea." Includes background reading material and discussion...
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Pbs Learning Media: Tale of the Peacock
The peacock provides a classic example of sexual selection, the force behind nature's extravagances. From Evolution: "Why Sex?" [4:02] Includes background reading and discussion questions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Alzheimer's Disease
This video segment from the Secret of Life School Video: "Genetic Medicine: Tinkering with Our Genes" explores the potential for gene therapy to cure diseases like Alzheimer's. [2 min, 48 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Double Immunity
Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that makes a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
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Pbs Learning Media: Human Genome Project
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" looks at the meaning and significance of the effort to decode the human genome. [4:08]
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Pbs Learning Media: Who Owns the Genome?
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" examines the social and ethical implications of genome research. [4 min, 8 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: A Mutation Story
This video segment describes the role of the sickle cell gene in natural selection. Footage courtesy of the PBS series Secret of Life: "Accidents of Creation." [4:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Single Celled Organisms
This video segment explores the astounding diversity of the world's smallest life forms: single-celled organisms. [3:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing the Citigroup Skyscraper
This video segment adapted from the PBS series "Building Big" shows how a structural engineer overcame the challenges of building New York's Citigroup skyscraper over a church by using triangles to add muscle and stability to the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Build a Wall
In the video "Keep Out Cows," Curious George tries to build a wall to keep the cows from munching on a flowerbed. He uses newspapers attached to a clothesline, but will they be strong enough to keep Leslie Cow and her friends away?...
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Pbs Learning Media: Habitat and Diet in Racehorse Development
This animated segment from KET's Electronic Field Trip to a Horse Farm demonstrates one of the ways calcium, a naturally occurring mineral derived from limestone, enters a horse's diet to give it an advantage in bone strength. [1:09]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Cool to Be a Civil Engineer
Who decides how massive structures like skyscrapers are made? This video segment adapted from the PBS series "Building Big" showcases the job of a civil engineer. [3:11]