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Pbs Learning Media: Ingredients for Life: Carbon
This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets. [1:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature Scene: Geology of Death Valley
NatureScene introduces students to Death Valley, its features, and how they were shaped by the environment. [4:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hajj Part Iii
Students learn about an American Muslim's impressions of his first pilgrimage to Mecca in this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. [10:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Unlikely Travel Companions
A variety of symbiotic relationships exist between sharks and other marine species in this segment from Nature. [2:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contamination Affects Food Web
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.3m 03s
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Pbs Learning Media: Bullfrog Films: Gwich'in Tribe Protects Caribou and Culture
Gwich'in Chief Evon Peter of Arctic Village, Alaska explains the importance of the caribou to his people and the tribes need to protect the herd from the effects of oil drilling. [5:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Islamic Art
This video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly highlights the traveling exhibition Palace and Mosque, which features one of the most renowned Islamic art collections in the world. [2:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Shark and Turtle
In this Nature video, watch a battle between a loggerhead turtle and a shark. [2:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Steve Mac Lean: Conservationist
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet conservationist Steve MacLean, an Inupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, who works to preserve the health of the Bering Sea ecosystem. Site includes short essay, discussion questions,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hajj Part I
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, meet an American Muslim as he prepares for Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca that commemorates the Abrahamic roots of Islam. [3:08]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hajj Part Ii
Performed with over two million other Muslims, the rites of Hajj, the required pilgrimage to Mecca, have a profound personal impact on each pilgrim. In this video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a Muslim from America experiences...
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Pbs Learning Media: Halal Kosher Dining at Dartmouth
A dining hall at Dartmouth College accommodates the religious dietary requirements of Muslims, Jews and Hindus as explained in this video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. [2:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: What Is Astrobiology?
In this video from the Science and Technology Chat series, learn about astrobiology, an interdisciplinary field that uses biology, astronomy, and geology to study the origins of life on Earth and to search for possible life on other...
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Pbs Learning Media: Kelp Forest
This video from Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, describes the unique, interdependent characteristics of an underwater kelp forest ecosystem and explores the delicate balance of life between sea otters, urchins, and the kelp...
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Pbs Learning Media: Gravity at Earth's Center
In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about the effects of gravity as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson falls through a virtual hole through Earth's center. [1:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Atoms: The Space Between
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey takes a look at the scale of the atom and the tremendous amount of space between the electrons and the nucleus. If all this empty space exists in matter, how can any substance be solid?...
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Pbs Learning Media: Magna Carta: Relevant for the 21st Century
A video from the James Otis Lecture Series that examines ways that the Magna Carta is still relevant today, and why citizen participation in government and community is so important to a democratic society. Accompanied by teaching tips...
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Pbs Learning Media: Balancing Equations With Multiple Terms
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Digit and Inez must balance two number sentences to save the bunnies of Cyberspace.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: The Way Things Move: Building Dams Pt. 2
Watch these children build two dams, and then see how they play a trick! [1:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Experimenting With Balloons
Watch the ZOOM cast find out how many balloons filled with air and then with water are required to support the weight of a cast member. [4:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Air Power: Experimenting With Balloons
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members experiment with the amount of air expelled first from a balloon, then through a straw attached to it, and see how both affect a balloon's behavior. [2:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing Electric Circuits: Steadiness Tester
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members discover that metal is a good conductor of electricity as they play the steadiness tester game. [1:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Inventor: The Couch Protector
Want to keep your dog off the couch? In this video segment from ZOOM, inventor Jason demonstrates his invention that does just that: a couch protector. [1:15]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature: Forming the Burren
This video segment from Nature describes how glaciers eroded the bedrock of Ireland's landscape. [0:40]