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Pbs: Smithsonian: Resouces for Teaching and Learning

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a collection of resources for teaching and learning from the Smithsonian Institute including grade leveled interdisciplinary resources, classroom-ready content for contemporary issues, and Signature Smithsonian Programs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Blue Ribbon Readers: The Detective's Notebook Game

For Students K - 1st Standards
An online learning game where students read the notes in a detective's notebook and make inferences and predictions to solve the case.
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Pbs: Using Supporting Evidence to Interpret Meaning a Native American Folktale

For Teachers 1st - 4th
In this lesson, students will watch a video clip with a Native American storyteller telling a traditional story. Students will use supporting evidence from the story to give meaning to oral and written texts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nova Evolution Lab: Interactive Lesson: Mission 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the evidence of evolution with this interactive worksheet based off of NOVA's Evolution Lab. This resource is designed to be completed while playing through the Evolution Lab game and contains multiple choice and free response...
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Pbs Learning Media: Helping High Schoolers Find Research and Stem Field Opportunities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
I've been involved in shepherding high school students through the world of Independent Research for nearly two decade. I know firsthand the impact that spending one or two summers working in a scientific institution with a real...
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Bodies

For Teachers K - 1st
This slideshow offers students opportunities to observe, identify, and describe various characteristics of water bodies and compare near-ground-level and aerial views of each water body.
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Pbs Learning Media: Playing With Water Packet: Grades 1 and 2: Summer of Possibilities

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use these water-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Printable Lesson: Litterbug Clean Up!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this printable lesson, children will learn about the environment by going outdoors and picking up litter. Use this printable lesson, video clips, science notebook pages, and support materials from the PBS KIDS show Elinor Wonders Why...
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Pbs Learning Media: Nova Polar Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive NOVA Polar Lab uses 360 degrees videos, interviews with scientists, and mini-games to send students on an immersive quest to understand how the poles are key to understanding Earth's climate -- past, present, and future.
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Pbs Learning Media: Choosing Earth's Climate Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Students focus on the three interconnected choices global society faces as Earth's climate continues to change -- suffer, adapt, and mitigate -- to analyze and predict current and future impacts to Earth's systems. Using videos excerpted...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Geography and Natural Resources in Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will explore a physical map showing natural resources in Canada to analyze the impact of the environment on the distribution of natural resources. Students will write about the information they discover using the provided...
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Pbs Learning Media: Scale City: Similar Figures and Unknown Heights in Practice

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students explore how to use shadows, proportional reasoning, and similar figures to determine the unknown height of an object. The interactive allows students to explore the proportional relationships among the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Math and Art: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This collection of 25 lesson plans uses dance, drama, music, and visual arts to teach math concepts.
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Pbs Learning Media: 5 Ways to Prevent Bullying in Your Classroom

For Students Pre-K - 1st
While the ways to address bullying vary depending on the age, here are five general tips and good practices. Talk about bullying, Ensure adults are visible, Recognize common types of bullying, Build rapport with students, and Watch for...
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Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...
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Pbs Learning Media: 5 Back to School Tools to Add to Your Teacher Toolkit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Five Top Places to "Buy" New Ideas: Pinterest, PBS LearningMedia, STEM learning, EFPractice, and STEM and the six cross-cutting concepts. Information about each of the above resources is available on this site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vid: Fractions and Scale

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students think about how fractional measurements relate to scale models, learn about alternate ways of expressing scale ratios, and demonstrate understanding of fractions and scale in this interactive from KET. After watching video...
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vid: Scaling Up Rectangles

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Watch a student think through a problem about how the area of a rectangle changes when both sides are increased by the same scale factor and use online tools to demonstrate understanding of concepts related to area and scale factors in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Modeling a Fraction Multiplication Word Problem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This video [2:31] illustrates a word problem involving the multiplication of fractions that requires students to find an unknown product based on a comparison of two quantities. One of the world's largest insects, the Goliath beetle, is...
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Pbs Learning Media: Locating Points on the Cartesian Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students use clues and logic to plot the location of aquatic animals on a Cartesian graph that represents the four cardinal directions. The three riddles in the interactive, including one that requires students to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Logical Leaps: Fractions and Decimals From 0 to 1 on the Vertical Number Line

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this interactive, use logic to solve riddles involving a flea-jumping contest. Place each contestant's jump, represented by either a fraction or a decimal in both feet and inches, at the correct point on the vertical number line....
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Pbs Learning Media: Animal Adaptations: Fishing Cat

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the semi-aquatic fishing cat evolved millions of years ago to live in the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia in this video from NATURE: The Story of Cats (4:18). The accompanying activity prompts students to write an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Life's Instruction Manual: Interactive Lesson: Unc Tv Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The human genome serves as an instruction manual for life, with its own distinct letters, alphabet, sentences and chapters. Learn about the genome, nucleotides, DNA and genes with this interactive lesson.
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Pbs Learning Media: Center Card: Build an Animal Habitat

For Students Pre-K - K
Children design an animal habitat and talk about how the habitat provides the animal's basic needs -- shelter, water, and food -- using this block center activity. It includes three resources.