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Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Clones

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez and Lucky figure out how to keep track of the number of clones as they continue to multiply.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sharing Halloween Candy

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Jackie shows Buzz, Delete and Harold how to deal out rounds (or sets) of objects to solve a problem.
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Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from TV 411, learn how to read nutrition labels on food containers and calculate the calorie content of different serving amounts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Right Crystal

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad has to find a crystal that is between 65% and 85% orange to power up their escape from Hacker in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Island of the Little

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad is on the Island of the Little and must scale up a small boat that will fit Widgit.
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Pbs Learning Media: In a Land of Giants

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must scale down a large boat to escape the land of Proporciona, a land of giants.
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Pbs Learning Media: Patterns in Nature

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment [3:25] from Cyberchase, a plant expert shows Bianca the patterns and symmetry found in nature.
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Pbs Learning Media: To Survive at High Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at speed, velocity, and centripetal force on the racetrack. [6:28]
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Pbs Learning Media: Stem Cells: Seeds of Hope?

For Students 9th - 10th
This video explores the basic scientific and ethical questions surrounding the use of stem cells in medical research.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Tunnel Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," explores tunneling and the tools and methods used to do the job.
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Feste are in a boisterous mood that raises the ire of Malvolio. Incensed at his highhandedness, Maria and the trio hatch a plan to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Changes in Turkey

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, learn how the owner of a clothing manufacturer that creates conservative fashions for Turkish women has balanced his devout faith and commerce.
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Pbs Learning Media: Suffering and Recovery

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the role local churches played in bringing Hutus and Tutsis together in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in this Wide Angle video segment.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Female Workforce

For Students 9th - 10th
Irish women discuss social and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century in this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Birds of a Feather

For Students 9th - 10th
Birds of a Feather shows a variety of birds and asks students to explain the expression: Birds of a feather flock together.
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Pbs Learning Media: Brown Reactions: Judge Brady

For Students 9th - 10th
This 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today

For Students 9th - 10th
Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa give way to gravity? In this interview from the NOVA Web site, engineer John Burland relates the difficult job of saving the tower.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this NOVA: "Spies That Fly" interactive timeline and discover the many technological innovations in the history of unmanned flight, from hot-air balloons to miniature flying robots.
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Pbs Learning Media: Chalk Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Art in the 21st Century: Paradox, two artists create a public art piece using giant pieces of chalk.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ancestors Talk Through Drums

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from EGG:the arts show, meet Camilo Gaetan who is becoming a master drummer.
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Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.
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Pbs Learning Media: Classroom Tips

For Students Pre-K - 1st
From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.
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Pbs Learning Media: Botswana Today

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the achievements and national problems of the African nation of Botswana in this video segment from Wide Angle.