Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Implementing Brown

9th - 10th
Point/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower." [6:32]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist, Lola Hendricks

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Lola Hendricks describes her work behind the scenes to advance the Civil Rights movement. [4:21]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Miriam Mc Clendon

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Miriam McClendon recalls her arrest and jailing for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:22]
Instructional Video
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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]
Audio
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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.
Audio
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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.
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: A Class Divided 1: The Daring Lesson

9th - 10th
This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970. [10:27]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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...
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]
Instructional Video
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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]