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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Idea Channel Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the crossroads of art, science, and pop culture with PBS Idea Channel. Hosted by Mike Rugnetta, the Idea Channel launched in 2012 and has since posted over 100 videos, with more added every Wednesday. The program has quickly...
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Pbs: People and Discoveries: Kdka Begins to Broadcast 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS details the history of radio and KDKA (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) the first radio station to offer programming. Mentions: advertising, NBC Radio, mass culture.
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Pbs: Red Files: Secret Soviet Moon Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers biographies and stories from the early days of the Soviet Space program, which prompted the Space Race and nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.
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Pbs Frontline: China in the Red

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS special showcases various topics concerning China in the 21st century. What are "ordinary Chinese" like? Will the country embrace democracy sooner or later? These discussions and more are available at this site. In addition,...
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Pbs: American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a PBS American Experience film about Queen Liliuokalani and the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, this brief overview gives personal information about the queen and explains her attempts at protecting her country. Included...
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Pbs/people's Century: Master Race

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of the program, "People's Century: Master Race -- Nazism Overtakes German Society," from PBS.
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Pbs the West: Fight No More Forever (1874 1877)

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS critically acclaimed series, "The West" comes this introduction to the Indian Wars that were waged in the course of settling the frontier.
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Pbs the West: The Everywhere Spirit

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS site describes events between 1866 and 1868 in the Indian Wars. Including the Lakota attack on a wagon train bringing supplies to Ft. Kearny and Custer's attack on the Cheyennes on the Washita River.
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Pbs: Medicating Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS Frontline series companion site features the reaction that four different families had to medication designed to treat ADHD. This program can be viewed in its entirety or in six separate segments. Positive and negative aspects...
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Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
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Pbs: American Masters: James Baldwin

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers this companion to a 2-1/2 hour program that focuses on the life and work of novelist James Baldwin.
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Pbs: Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web for arts-related content that airs on PBS stations. You can link to the program sites of long-running arts broadcasts, sample special exhibitions, and investigate what the network is airing or has recently aired on...
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Pbs Learning Media: Programming a Robot

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad breaks down an action into a series of steps in order to program a robot to do what they need it to do. [4:50]
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Pbs: Everyday Ways to Teach Children Respect

For Students 9th - 10th
It can be difficult to teach children how to be tolerant of those who appear different. This article discusses this issue, and presents television programming and books that are conducive to respecting those with differences.
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Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
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Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
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Pbs: Nova: Dimming the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
An online presentation of NOVA's program Dimming the Sun. You can read a transcript of the show, read an essay on the effect of contrails on global warming, and view slideshows tracing a timeline of climate change and new technologies...
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Pbs Teachers:origins Back to the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
This hour long program by NOVA is split into six segments and examines a issues influencing scientists' current understanding of how the universe was formed. This includes The Big Bang and its lasting effects.
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Pbs Teachers: Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe the relationship among volcanoes, earthquakes and lithospheric plates by collecting data and creating maps. This activity was created to be used with the NOVA program, "Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius" but the video is not necessary...
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Pbs: Nova: Super Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to a NOVA program on bridges. Includes teacher resources, including a class activity through which students construct and test their own bridge,
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Pbs: Financial Literacy: On the Money

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore PBS's "On The Money," program for teens to investigate teens & money, budgeting, bank accounts, credit cards, calculators, and moneymaking ideas.
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Pbs News Hour: Discovery of the Gospel of Judas

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript and streaming video of a "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" segment about the newly authenticated gospel of Judas. Aired on April 7, 2006, the day on which the gospel was made public, the program captures the perspectives of four...
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Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Watching the Clock: Building Media Savvy Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson plan 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 news...
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Pbs Teachers: Uninsured in America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand the multiple problems faced by those without health insurance. Consider who the uninsured are, why they do not have insurance, government programs available to them and possible solutions. News coverage up to 2007.