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Fugle Flicks: Deep Space

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This teacher-created music video helps to explain the illusion of depth by introducing you to foreground, middleground, background, and overlapping.
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: Zudio

For Students 4th - 8th
This African-American game song, emphasizing rhythm and self-expression, is sung to movements described in the lyrics and demonstrated by the children in the audience. Included are teaching tips and additional background information....
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: Hambone

For Students K - 1st
Watch the hambone, an African-American rhythm technique that uses the whole body as a "drum set" to produce different sounds, demonstrated.
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Pbs: Native American Culture: Apache Dance Performance

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment, the Apache Crown dancers perform a traditional Crown Dance in full regalia to music. Included are teaching tips, and activity, and additional background information. [2:35]
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Pbs Learning Media: "The Tell Tale Heart": Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," in this video [3:05] from the American Masters film Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student handout ask students to analyze...
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: Manjani

For Students 9th - 10th
The Manjani, a West African dance that celebrates an important event such as the harvest, a wedding, or a naming ceremony is performed by The Imani Dance and Drum Company. Included are teaching tips, a lesson plan, and additional...
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Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: Shady Grove/bandyrowe

For Students K - 1st
In this video folksinger Jean Ritchie performs the Appalachian tune "Shady Grove," a traditional song she learned from her family and "Bandyrowe," a song for which she made up verses to help get her two sons to sleep when they were very...
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Pbs: Early America: Derby Ram

For Students K - 1st
Listen to a performance of the English-American song "Derby Ram", a purported favorite of George Washington, for a group of students who sing, stomp, and clap along.
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: E Sin Mi D'africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a welcome dance that combines movements from several traditional dances of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [8:18]
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Pbs Learning Media: From the Top at Carnegie Hall: Found Sound: Joshua Jones

For Students 9th - 10th
This From the Top at Carnegie Hall video features a performance by 16-year-old Joshua Jones on the marimba. [4:29]
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The Favorite Poem Project: "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video episode [10:19] from The Favorite Poem Project, Samantha Kyrkostas, a development manager who has traveled the world, and Dr. Charles Schlegel, a retired dentist and Krykostas' grandfather, share their special connection to...
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Crash Course Sociology #10: Symbols, Values, & Norms

For Students 9th - 10th
This video focuses on symbols, values, and norms. What exactly is culture? We're going to try to answer that, and explain the difference between material and non-material culture. We'll look at three things that make up culture: symbols,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Pbs Digital Studios

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore top selections from the PBS Digital Studios library. This content is edgy and engaging, educational and thought - provoking - designed to grab your students' attention. Explore our collections curated towards design and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mad Hot Tango: Caeli Smith

For Students 9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 15-year-old violinist Caeli Smith plays a wonderful movement from Astor Piazzolla's L'histoire du tango, called Bordel 1900. [0:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Listening With Your Eyes: Matthew Lipman

For Students 9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 16-year-old violist Matthew Lipman plays La Campanella" from the Second Violin Concerto by Niccolo Paganini. [4:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: One String, Many Sounds: Jonah Ellsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 13-year-old cellist Jonah Ellsworth plays Variations on One String on a Theme of Rossini, by Niccolo Paganini. [4:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Innovation Through Experimentation: Kiyoe Wellington

For Students 9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, hear a young double bassist from Hawaii play a soulful contemporary piece. [4:30]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Young People's Chorus of New York City

For Students 9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, the Young People's Chorus of New York City performs a stirring a cappella piece by contemporary composer Jim Papoulis. [3:32]
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Pbs: Native American Culture: Cherokee Singer

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch Cherokee singer Paula Nelson perform two songs that were taped at the 2006 Festival of Native Peoples in Cherokee, N.C.
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Pbs: Japanese Culture: Koto

For Students 9th - 10th
Kazue Sawai, a well-known koto player performs "Midare" ("Chaos") on the traditional Japanese instrument.

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