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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Feste are in a boisterous mood that raises the ire of Malvolio. Incensed at his highhandedness, Maria and the trio hatch a plan to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Changes in Turkey

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, learn how the owner of a clothing manufacturer that creates conservative fashions for Turkish women has balanced his devout faith and commerce.
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Pbs Learning Media: Suffering and Recovery

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the role local churches played in bringing Hutus and Tutsis together in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in this Wide Angle video segment.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Female Workforce

For Students 9th - 10th
Irish women discuss social and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century in this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Birds of a Feather

For Students 9th - 10th
Birds of a Feather shows a variety of birds and asks students to explain the expression: Birds of a feather flock together.
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Pbs Learning Media: Brown Reactions: Judge Brady

For Students 9th - 10th
This 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today

For Students 9th - 10th
Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa give way to gravity? In this interview from the NOVA Web site, engineer John Burland relates the difficult job of saving the tower.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this NOVA: "Spies That Fly" interactive timeline and discover the many technological innovations in the history of unmanned flight, from hot-air balloons to miniature flying robots.
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Pbs Learning Media: Chalk Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Art in the 21st Century: Paradox, two artists create a public art piece using giant pieces of chalk.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ancestors Talk Through Drums

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from EGG:the arts show, meet Camilo Gaetan who is becoming a master drummer.
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Pbs Learning Media: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from New York Voices features Chinese American architect Maya Lin.
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Pbs Learning Media: Classroom Tips

For Students Pre-K - 1st
From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.
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Pbs Learning Media: Labor Disputes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, view a case study of the mediation of a disagreement between an employee and his former employer in China's courts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Widows in Israel

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
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Pbs Learning Media: Transformed Workplaces

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dance

For Students 9th - 10th
Dance shows a tribal dance and accopmanying music and asks the student to answer the question What would happen if you expressed yourself this way in our society?
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Pbs Learning Media: Hot Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Hot Air shows a brief segment of someone blowing glass and asks students to describe what object they would create if they were a glass blower.
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Gates: Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Career Gates: Technology highlghts various employees from a variety of employers talking about how technology has impacted their careers and increased work efficiency, accuracy, and productivity in their various fields. WLVT PBS 39, The...
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Pbs Learning Media: Health

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how advances in technology have affected people's health.
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Pbs Learning Media: Small Business

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda's new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
Amy Smith is an engineer who designs simple and inexpensive solutions to real-world problems. This video produced for Teachers' Domain features her innovative design for testing the safety of drinking water in the developing world.
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal Empowerment

For Admins Pre-K - 1st
Schools will improve when principals are given the autonomy to make decisions that best solve their school-based problems. Coupled with this autonomy is the accountability to produce significant improvement. The upper level bureaucracy...
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal as Instructional Leader

For Admins Pre-K - 1st
The key role of the principal is instructional leader. However, there are many pressures that prevent principals from getting into classrooms to help teachers build their instructional capacity. The traditional time-consuming observation...