PBS
Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Watching the Clock: Building Media Savvy Students
A instructional activity that leads students to an understanding of the time constraints on broadcast news by applying data-collecting and data-display skills. Students will learn to identify the main difference between publicly funded...
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Voa News
Listen to VOA broadcasts from around the world, in many different languages, and read short articles on world and US current events.
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Broadcasting Board of Governors
Promoting reliable and balanced journalism, the Broadcasting Board of Governors provides a comprehensive history, goal-set and ongoing intentions for international public broadcasting. The BBG seeks to provide unbiased and uncensored...
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Taking a Leading Role: Women in Broadcasting History
Learn about significant women in the early days of radio and television. This library exhibition features performers, writers, and executives who pioneered in the broadcasting industry. Included in the exhibit are photographs, news...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the learners performing historical...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Saturn's Rings May Be Eroding
From ABC News in Science, Dan Whitcomb's article uses research from the Cassini spacecraft to suggest the possibility of the erosion of Saturn's rings, meaning that they will cease to exist in 100 million years.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Walking Upright Started in Trees
From ABC News in Science, Will Dunham's article on orangutans covers topics related to the evolutionary process of "bipedal walking," or walking on two legs instead of four.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Study Clears Sun of Climate Change
From ABC News in Science, Alister Doyle's article discusses scientific research behind the study of the sun's energy output and whether or not it has affected climate on the Earth.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: The Costs of Tackling Climate Change
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses results from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the costs in battling global warming.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Four More Breast Cancer Genes Found
From ABC News in Science, this article charts the breast cancer research undergone by a team of international scientists. The research explores issues related to gene mutations and breast cancer. (May, 2007)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Cyclones May Blast Turtles to Extinction
From ABC News in Science, Jacquie van Santen's article examines how several weather tropical cyclones affect populations of marine turtles both at sea and on the `each.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: And Now, the Weather on Mars
From ABC News in Science, Marilyn Head's article explores recent developments in technology allowing for a closer rendering of information related to the various weather conditions on Mars.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Antarctic Glaciers Picking Up Speed
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses scientific research connected to the rise in sea level because of fast-moving glaciers in the Antarctic.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Aquarium Fish 'Threaten Biodiversity'
From ABC News in Science, Anna Salleh's article on aquarium biodiversity explores the problems associated with the large numbers of exotic fish imported yearly into Australia.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Astronomers Seek Life at End of Rainbow
From ABC News in Science, Marilyn Head's article explores the possibility entertained by several researchers that the key to discovering life beyond Earth (or habitable planets) is in studying rainbows.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Chimp Dna Sheds Light on Humanity
From ABC News in Science, Richard Ingham's article sheds light on scientific research comparing and contrasting the DNA of Chimpanzees with the DNA of humans.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Did Climate Change Drive Katrina?
From ABC News in Science, Alister Doyle's article deals primarily with the issue of global warming and the possibility of it as a cause for Hurricane Katrina.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dogs Prefer Winners
From ABC News in Science, Jennifer Viegas's article deals with social behavior of dogs and current research suggesting that they gravitate toward "winners." When they observe other animals or animal-human interaction, they go towards the...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Glaciers Melting Faster as Planet Warms
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses climate change research which suggests that the worldwide issue of melting glaciers is a clear sign of changing climate conditions.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Chile Earthquake: Christmas Day Quake Forces Evacuations
Southern Chile is rattled by a magnitude-7.6 earthquake, forcing thousands of people to evacuate coastal areas.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Piece of Dinosaur Extinction Asteroid Puzzle Recovered
The first meteorite fossil discovered in this period when tests can be run on it, was found at Chicxulub in Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico. Scientists believe it is part of the meteorite which made the dinosaurs extinct.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dinosaurs and Cave People
Site uncovers the truth behind some common dinosaur myths.
A&E Television
History.com: How the Nfl Popularized Thanksgiving Day Football
Thanksgiving football dates to at least 1876, when Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, on a cold, bleak afternoon in Hoboken, New Jersey. By the 1890s, many college and high school teams played on the holiday. But the tradition didn't become a...