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Pbs Learning Media: Killer Landslides Monitoring and Predicting Landslides
The use of technology can save lives by predicting landslides to ensure timely evacuations. Watch how the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar predicted the collapse of the Swiss mountainside. Closed caption is available. [3:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Killer Typhoon Climate Change and Storm Intensity
Watch how warming oceans and melting glaciers lead to the growing prevalence of typhoon-related storms. Specifically, this video focuses on Super Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Phillipenes in 2013. Closed caption is available. [4:13]
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Pbs Learning Media: Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes Storm Prediction
It is a scary feeling to hear the tornado sirens go off! However, we should be thankful we have to technology to warn people of impending tornadoes. We can thank science for that! Learn how scientists have predicted tornadoes with better...
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Pbs Learning Media: Life's Rocky Start Minerals
Slice open a rock and look at it under a microscope and you will see are a rainbow of colors which are minerals. Minerals are made up of elements essential to modern life. Watch this video to see the mineral composition of rocks and the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mystery Beneath the Ice Phytoplankton and Krill
Travel along on the research vessel Polarstern to learn about the Arctic ecosystem. Scientists will describe the relationship between annual variations in sea ice and the krill population which is fundamental to the Antarctic food web....
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Pbs: Nova: Arctic Passage: Franklin's Provisions
Here is a list of the provisions carried in the ships Erebus and Terror for the Franklin Expedition. A brief commentary puts the amount of provisions in context.
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Nova: Pocahontas Revealed: The Science of Jamestown
This website matches up contemporary reports and later historical information about Jamestown with recent archaeological evidence that confirms such information.
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Nova: Hunt for the Supertwister
It is reported that the U.S. experiences three quarters of the worlds tornados. Learn what conditions make the great place a breeding ground for these disasters. Interviews with experts and interactive features can be found in this...
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Nova: Cancer Warrior
This hour long, 8 part segment features new advances in cancer therapy and medication. Learn about these new treatments in this detailed series developed by NOVA.
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Nova: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
A fascinating overview of Galileo as a person and as a scientist. Links to extras such as, a timeline of his life, an interactive look at his experiments, and even one of his biggest mistakes and why he was wrong.
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Pbs Teachers:surviving Aids
Understand the facts and issues surrounding HIV and AIDS by creating a newspaper supplement containing information gathered from research.
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Pbs Teachers: The Search for a Safe Cigarette
Examine a range of federal and state actions on tobacco issues, determine which regulations are unfavorable or favorable to the smoking industry and consider the government's role in public health.
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Pbs Teachers: Bioterror
Identify the bioagents that can be used for biowarfare, and understand how they affect the human body. Investigate media reports about 21st-century bioterrorism, and discuss fears and feelings about the threat of bioterrorism.
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Pbs: Nova: Online Adventure: Madagascar
Join this online adventure from PBS into the wilds of Madagascar. Follow all the links to navigate this virtual expedition. Also included are lesson plan ideas, games, and many related resources.
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Pbs: Burial Artifacts
This site from PBS provides a fascinating account cataloging several different artifacts that were found in graves throughout the Inca area. One of the graves was of a little girl, named "Sarita", on the summit of Sara Sara.
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Nova Online: Remote Sensing in Archaeology
This article, a companion piece to a NOVA special called "Lost City of Arabia," explains remote-sensing technologies that are helping archeologists find ancient cities from the air.
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Nazi Secrets: The Story of Enigma
The companion website to the Nova special that documented how the Allied codebreakers cracked the German message coding machine, nicknamed "Enigma," in World War 2. The site has student activities including trying to decode machine made...
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Pbs: Nazi Prison Escapes at Colditz
Companion website to the NOVA program on Colditz and those who tried to escape from it during World War 2. Includes plans on the "glider" escape where prisoners made a Glider to "fly" out of the prison.
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Nova: Sounds of Titan
Listen to sounds obtained by the Huygens space probe as it descended through Titan's atmosphere. Planetary research scientist Bruce Bretts will explain the meaning of the sounds obtained from the Huygens space probe.
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Pbs: Hitler's Sunken Secret
Could the Nazis have actually developed a nuclear weapon? This site explores the possibilities. Read about the Norwegian Resistance movement and its place in history. Excellent slide show of secret telegrams between Norway and London.
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Pbs: Nova Holocaust on Trial
Companion website to a documentary chronicling the 2000 English court case about denial of the Holocaust happening.
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Pbs: Nova Science Now: Autism Genes
A video investigating the hunt for the gene that causes autism. Learn how a parents crusade to help their child led to scientist finding a stretch of similar genes that may help solve the mystery about autism. [12:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Life's Rocky Start Banded Iron Formations
Learn how life on early Earth triggered the formation of vast deposits of iron in this video. View the stunning iron rich rocks in Australia that were created by early life. Closed caption available. [3:20]
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Pbs Learning Media: Life's Rocky Start Deep Sea Vents
What if life began deep in the ocean? One experiment set out to prove the theory that life began around deep sea vents. This video shows the results of this experiment and it what it taught us about the origins of life. Closed caption...