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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Leader, Robert Moses

9th - 10th
In this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign. [4:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: Excerpts From the March on Washington, Part 1

9th - 10th
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, captures the voices of several civil rights leaders.
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Pbs Learning Media: Excerpts From the March on Washington, Part 2

9th - 10th
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, pays tribute to the women -- both leaders and widows of slain leaders -- of the Civil Rights movement.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Changing Arctic Landscape

9th - 10th
In this video [3:54] adapted from the Arctic Athabaskan Council, learn how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the landscape, triggering a host of effects such as permafrost thawing and insect infestations.
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Pbs Learning Media: Farm Solutions to Water Pollution

9th - 10th
In this video from Common Ground and Cleaner Water, Tribby Vice, a Kentucky farmer, talks about the changes he has made on his farm to protect the water quality of the stream running through his property and the watershed in which he...
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Bats of the Southwest

9th - 10th
This video segment from the Nevada Department of Wildlife looks at various species of bats and how they impact the environment. [3:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Talking Bacteria

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, microbiologist Bonnie Bassler shares her discovery that bacteria coordinate group activity by communicating through chemical signals. [4:49]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: How the Body Responds to Exercise

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, follow novice runners as they train for a marathon, and discover how quickly the body responds to regular aerobic exercise.
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Pbs Learning Media: Levers: Raising the Moai on Easter Island

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a team of archaeologists and engineers explores different uses of the lever by recreating the engineering feats of the ancient Easter Island peoples. [4:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Nasa

9th - 10th
From radio waves to gamma rays, this video segment from NASA introduces the seven categories of the electromagnetic spectrum and how each type of radiation is part of our everyday lives. [2:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sound and Solids: Listening Stick

1st - 5th
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through air than through solids like a yardstick, a baseball bat, and a golf club. [1:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy

3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy. [2:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Segway Technology: What's Newton Got to Do With It?

9th - 10th
What do the laws of physics have to do with engineering? Find out in this video segment featuring inventor Dean Kamen and his inventions, the IBOT and the Segway. [8:12]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Daytime/nighttime

Pre-K - 1st
In this Dinosaur Train clip, the Pteranodon family is going on a camping trip. The train conductor explains about day and night, the changes in temperature between them, and how the sun rises and sets because the Earth is rotating on its...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hubble's Expanding Universe

9th - 10th
We know the universe is expanding, but how? This adapted video segment, using footage from NOVA and NASA, examines Edwin Hubble's work and how his findings laid the foundation for the Big Bang theory. [3:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain

9th - 10th
What happens to nuclear waste? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE explores the controversy surrounding the United States' first nuclear repository site. [1:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Super Sounding Drums

3rd - 8th
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores sounds made by homemade drums of different sizes, shapes, and materials. [3:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Experimenting With a Glass Xylophone

3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast investigates how the pitch of sound changes when they strike a variety of glasses filled with different amounts and types of liquids. [5:07]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wind Story: Wind Power

9th - 10th
The characteristics of wind power as a source of clean energy are described in this animated movie.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves

9th - 10th
A tour of radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. [3:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Haze

9th - 10th
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.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in Brown case. [5:44]
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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.
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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]