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Pbs Learning Media: Several Short Rails Make More Than a Whole

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker has sabotaged another section of the Madre Bonita Express track; Digit gets help from Deci in adding decimals to find the right size rail that will repair the track.
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Pbs: Real World Ratio and Rate Reasoning: How to Power the Skate Park

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad works with area to figure out how to power a skate park using solar panels in this interactive from WNET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students view and analyze a series of video clips from Cyberchase and...
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Pbs: Recognize and Represent Proportional Relationships Between Quantities: Ratio, Proportion, Cross Multiply, Divide

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this Cyberchase media gallery, learn about ratio and proportion and how to use an algebraic shortcut to solve proportion problems. In the accompanying classroom activity, students play a game called the "Pom-Pom Nose Push," in which...
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Pbs: Harry Makes a Big Splash With Positive and Negative Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video, Harry, his friend, and his cousin Harley form a swim relay team. They get timed in three different strokes to see who should swim which one in a relay. They look at the results and try to find the combination of...
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Pbs: Multidigit Multiplication With Standard Algorithm: The Donut Doze Off

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase video, Bianca has a new job decorating fresh-baked donuts. Her supervisor asked her to decorate 12 trays of donuts, but Bianca thought he meant 12 donuts. When she discovers her mistake, she uses multiplication...
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Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase video, Bianca and her friend go camping and soon realize that Bianca has left the food at home. They find a vending machine in the woods, but it doesn't dispense the food that corresponds with the numbers Bianca...
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Pbs: Explore the Relationship Among Fractions, Decimal Notation, and Percents

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase media gallery, a series of videos explores the relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents, which can be used to represent the same values in different ways. In the accompanying classroom activity, students...
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Pbs: Standard Measures and Conversions Within a System: Solve the Measurement Problem!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase media gallery, the Cybersquad must try to follow a recipe exactly to create a mixture that will help cure their friend Slider. At first, the squad must find a way to ensure standard measures of the ingredients. When...
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Pbs: Standard Measures and Conversions: Liquid Volume, Milliliters and Liters

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase Media Gallery, explore key concepts about liquid volume, including standard units of liquid measure and how to convert between them. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create a complete conversion chart...
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Pbs: Understanding Concepts of Volume and Measurement: Bianca's Babysitting Blues

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca is babysitting infant twins. As she tries to give each twin the same amount of liquid baby formula, she discovers that all the baby bottles are different shapes. Learn how she finds two that hold the...
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Pbs: Geometry and Classification of 2 D Figures: Bianca Busts a Move

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca breaks her friend's tabletop when she's practicing dance moves in his living room. She uses measurement and geometry to get a new piece of wood that will fit the table exactly. The accompanying...
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Science Buddies: Shape Changing With the Cyber Squad

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this project, you will make 2-dimensional templates, called nets, that fold up into 3-dimensional (3-D) shapes. By making shapes of different sizes, you will be able to see how 3-D shapes change with size. In your findings you will...
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Pbs Learning Media: Retrieving 2/8 of the Healing Stone

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Matt and Digit divide up the healing stone and discover equivalent fractions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Performance by Music of the Spheres

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Music of the Spheres plays a song using the correct beats and patterns, which helps to restore balance and harmony at Mount Olympus.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wnba Supermom

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from TV411, WNBA player Olympia Scott Richardson discusses her techniques for effective time management.
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Pbs Learning Media: Percentages in Basketball

For Students 6th - 8th
WNBA athletes discuss attendance at basketball games in terms of percentages in this video segment from TV 411.

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