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Pbs Learning Media: Building Curiosity: Rover Rocks Rocker Bogie
This NASA video showcases Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover that will, over a 23-month mission, collect and analyze Martian soil and rock samples while traversing a targeted area of the planet testing for evidence of current or past life. [1:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Connections: Web Developer
Watch three web developers explain how teamwork and a creative mindset are the building blocks of their trade in making computer code efficient and their websites intuitive and user-friendly. [7:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls: Robots to the Rescue! 01: Mentor Moment
The SciGirls talk with their mentor about the robots that she works with in her lab and how they test their robots. Seeing women who have succeeded in STEM helps inspire and motivate girls, especially when they can relate to these...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls: High Tech Fashion 01: Brainstorm & Research
The SciGirls decide to brainstorm what their favorite dress would look like and work together to design a dress that is totally outrageous and features technology. They reach out to a mentor to see what they can learn from her about...
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Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Privacy and You! Bonus Scene
Learn about privacy when texting from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [1 min, 20 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Privacy and You!
Hear advice on internet privacy from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [3 min, 25 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: The Internet and Chet
Hear about some ways to put the internet to good use from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [3 min, 50 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Say? Cheese!
Hear the pros and cons of online advertising from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [3 min, 31 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Getting the Most From the Internet!
Hear about getting the most from the internet from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [4 min, 21 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 7: Mission Accomplished
Students celebrate by watching the traffic flow smoothly at their intersection and reflect on the role computers play in helping to solve complex problems. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 6: Run a Simulation
Students utilize a computer simulation to help solve their problem of traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 5: Make a Model
Students process and analyze data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 4: Take the Numbers
Students go to an intersection to collect data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 3: Brainstorm
Students meet Dave Musicant, a computer science professor and explain that they want to try to reduce the amount of time they spend waiting at red lights at the intersection by their school. [3 min, 1 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 2: Straight to the Source
Students visit their city's traffic management center, tour the traffic signal control room and meet with Nick Van Gunst, a traffic engineer who shows them that the city's traffic light system is controlled by computers. They learn that...
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 1: Intro
This first segment in the 7-part lesson series introduces four high school students, as experience traffic delay problems. They decide to respond to an invitation to work with the city on improving the timing of a traffic signal near...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Design Process
Engineers use a series of steps called the design process to solve a problem. In this resource, featuring video segments excerpted from DESIGN SQUAD, watch teams of kids work through each of the five steps of the design process: 1)...
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Pbs Learning Media: Will 3 D Printing Change the World?
Much attention has been paid to 3D Printing lately, with new companies developing cheaper and more efficient consumer models that have wowed the tech community. They herald 3D Printing as a revolutionary and disruptive technology, but...