Texas A&M University
Texas Greenhouse Management: Handbook: Growing Media
An extensive list of growing media from the Texas A&M Dept. of Horticulture.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Dating Game: Radioactive Carbon
In this media-rich essay from the NOVA: "Mystery of the First Americans" Web site, learn about the atomic structure of radioactive carbon and how it can be used to determine the age of organic remains, such as bones and teeth.
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Pbs Learning Media: Genetic Variation
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explores the genetic similarities and differences among organisms.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling
In this lesson, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
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Pbs Learning Media: Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms
WGBH in collaboration with NASA presents digital media resources you can use to teach topics in K-12 Earth and Space Science. These free resources are organized into four grade bands. Each resource emphasizes engaging students in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Cell Differentiation
In this video segment from The Secret of Life school video, "Sex and the Single Gene" follow as a single fertilized egg cell divides, differentiates, and assembles into the tissues and organs of a new organism. [1:20]
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Leader, Bayard Rustin
This transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize documents the leadership strategies of March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin.
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Pbs Learning Media: Atmospheric Oxygen
In this feature, adapted from Interactive NOVA: Earth, students explore the relationship between oxygen concentration and the well-being of various organisms by simulating a change in oxygen levels and observing what happens.
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Pbs Learning Media: Amazing Heart Facts
This feature from the NOVA: "Cut to the Heart" highlights facts about the heart, including its size and placement, and will help you to understand the importance of this wondrous organ in our bodies.
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Pbs Learning Media: Gila Monster
This video segment from Outdoor Nevada looks at the Gila monster's behavior, habitat, and unique adaptive characteristics. [3:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Redwoods at Redwood National Park
This video segment from NatureScene describes the characteristics of redwood trees at Redwood National Park. [4:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Snapshot of u.s. Energy Use
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at American energy consumption and the resulting production of greenhouse gases. [4:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Super Salmon
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explores genetic modification of salmon and possible consequences.
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Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change
This short video explains how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the ecosystem and affecting the Athabaskan people, threatening their way of life. [2:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Primitive Insects of the Congaree Swamp
In this video segment from NatureScene, observe dragonflies and mayflies near Cedar Creek at Congaree Swamp National Park. [5:25]
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Government: State and Local Government
Learning module on the organization and functions of state and local governments. Includes multi-media learning resources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Endangered Species
Students research and create a brochure project on an endangered species of their choice integrating aspects of math, science, social studies, art, reading and writing. This project allows the students to make connections across the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Introduction
This is an introduction to AP Macroeconomics; it includes an outline of what you will learn in Chapter 1. You will learn about the following: Economics and why it is important, microeconomics and macroeconomics, how economists use...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
NOAA
Noaa: More Than Salt in Salt Water [Pdf]
Realize that there is more in ocean water than just salt. Find out about the salinity of water and how changes in salinity may affect organisms living in the water.
NOAA
Noaa: Now That's Complex [Pdf]
Define a habitat. Discover how a relatively small area can be divided into many habitats for smaller organisms.