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Pbs Learning Media: Producing Penicillin
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin. [4:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Role of Genetics in Obesity
In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, meet researchers who are studying obesity and trying to understand the role that hormones and genetics can play in regulating appetite. [3:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Density and Buoyancy: Experimenting With Club Soda
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast discovers that gas-filled bubbles act like life jackets for raisins, making them buoyant. [2:06]
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Pbs Learning Media: Zoom: Columns: Experimenting With Paper Cups
ZOOM video segment shows the cast experimenting to see if a several paper cups covered by a piece of cardboard can support the weight of a cast member. [3:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: How Is a Watershed Polluted?
The urban and rural activities of our complex social system aimed toward comfort and progress also have harmful side effects. This segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes how the water resources of one city are suffering...
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Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: Watershed Protection
Water is a resource precious to so many people for so many reasons. Reckless use and abuse of this treasure can leave all at the mercy of diseases and scarcity. This segment of a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes how the rule of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wonderful Worms
This video segment from WILD TV features a teenager who is fascinated with worms and talks about their value to the environment.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Power of the Whole Picture
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad helps Ms. Fileshare realize that Hacker has been deceiving her as they take a look at the scale of a bar graph.
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Pbs Learning Media: School in Benin
The education of young girls in Benin is the focus of this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Are We Alone?
This video segment adapted from NOVA features a variety of scientific perspectives on the age old question, "Are we alone in the universe?" Animations make vivid the improbability that we could intercept a radio wave signaling extra...
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Pbs Learning Media: Runnin' With the Devil
This video segment from Nature takes viewers to a road race in Death Valley. [1:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: You Can Die Here
Learn about the environmental conditions of Death Valley in this video from Nature. [1:18]
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Pbs Learning Media: Glaciated Landscape
In this video from Nature, learn about the many different features and effects of glaciers in Ireland. [1:13]
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Pbs Learning Media: Inclusion Conclusions
Learn where diamonds originate, and how inclusions trapped within diamonds help geologists determine their age, in this video segment from Nature. [1:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Diamonds Everywhere
This Nature video offers an introduction to the socio-economic value of diamonds. [1:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: A Land Born in Fire
In this Nature video, follow geologists as they retrieve samples from a fresh batch of Kilauea's molten lava. [5:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Creating an Island Paradise
In this video segment from Nature, learn the geological process by which the next Hawaiian island will be formed. [1:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Waves of Destruction
Learn about the anatomy of a tsunami in this video segment from Nature. Essay, discussion questions, and links to related information included. [1:19]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries
In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park. [3:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sharks and Fishermen
Sharks and fishermen compete for the same catch in this video segment from Nature. [1:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Pigeon Express
Decades of research has been dedicated to the impressive navigation skills of homing pigeons. To explain how these pigeons are able to find their way home from unfamiliar, distant sites, scientists have arrived at various theories. These...
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Pbs Learning Media: Planetary Moves
This video segment from Nature offers an introduction to four species' migratory patterns. [2:05]
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Pbs Learning Media: Feeding Time
In this video from Nature, watch how ravens' smarts can be observed in many situations, such as when they hunt and store food. [4:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Roost
Learn how ravens benefit from sharing information and working together in this video segment from Nature. [3:07]