Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collecting Data Below the Earth's Surface

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women demonstrates how scientists use sound waves to collect data about the structure of Earth's crust.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Grand Canyon: How It Formed

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses animation to present the theory of how the Grand Canyon was formed and features rare footage of a phenomenon known as debris flow.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Conserving Water at Home

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis highlights the impact of a variety of water conservation efforts including installing low-flow toilets and planting grass that does not require a lot of water.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: Drought and Air Quality

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discusses how a drought can have negative effects locally, for example by increasing the number of forest fires, and also globally, for example by impacting air quality...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lava Sampling on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientist Mike Garcia draws lava samples at the foot of the active Kilauea volcano to see if it is related to its neighboring volcano, Mauna Loa.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earthquakes: The Seismograph

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses historical illustrations, photographs, and animations to explain how seismographs work, the difference between P and S waves, and the Richter scale.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Observe Clouds

Pre-K - 1st
This video segment produced for Teachers' Domain features a time-lapse video of clouds forming, changing, and moving across the sky.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Extreme Temperatures on the Moon

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA, astronaut John Young experiences extreme temperatures on the Moon that are a result of the Moon's low gravity and lack of atmosphere.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: Discovering Jupiter's Moons

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo, using his newly developed refracting telescope, observed four of Jupiter's moons, the first astronomical bodies to be discovered since ancient times.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: Sunspots

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo used his telescope to carefully observe and study sunspots.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Observe Sunrise and Sunset

Pre-K - 1st
This brief video segment produced for Teachers' Domain features time-lapse video of a sunrise and a sunset. [1:06]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: An Everglades Visit

Pre-K - 1st
In this adapted video segment, ZOOM guest Tommy takes us on a tour of the Florida Everglades. He describes what makes a wetland biome unique, including the soil, precipitation, and biodiversity. [2:53]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kid Meteorologist

Pre-K - 1st
ZOOM guest Amy wants to be a meteorologist and volunteers at a weather observatory. In this adapted video segment, she shows us instruments used to predict the weather and describes how air pressure affects weather patterns. [1:27]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Antarctica: Sea Ice

Pre-K - 1st
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses microwave images to reveal how sea ice doubles the size of Antarctica each winter. Rare footage shows how sea ice crushed the famous ship Endurance in 1914. [2:34]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Observe Water in Winter and Summer

Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment produced for Teachers' Domain, observe frozen water in winter and liquid water in summer, at the same location. [0:31]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Root Systems of Trees at the Congaree Swamp

Pre-K - 1st
Learn about root systems of trees in the Congaree Swamp National Park in this video segment from NatureScene. [2:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Children's Crusade, Audrey Hendricks

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Audrey Hendricks recalls her arrest and jailing at the age of nine for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:00]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals

9th - 10th
Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black students who desegregated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Beals describes her tumultuous experience. [5:58]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Children's Crusade, Washington Booker, Iii

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Washington Booker recalls being arrested and jailed for participating in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:17]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Boston Desegregation

9th - 10th
This excerpt from WGBH's Evening Compass news program summarizes events of the first year of the 1974 Boston school desegregation plan. [3:33]
Audio
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Pbs Learning Media: Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 1

9th - 10th
This audio excerpt captures the beginning of Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech, describing the social and economic impact of racism over time.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Decision in the Streets

9th - 10th
This video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64. [5:02]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Selective Buying Campaign, Joe Dickson

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Joe Dickson recalls student activism at Miles College. [6:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: James Farmer and the Freedom Rides

9th - 10th
In this video interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Freedom Ride organizer James Farmer describes the interracial bus rides through the South that tested desegregation and sparked white resistance. [6:45]