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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Build a Better Lunchbox

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow the directions to build a lunchbox that will keep a frozen treat from melting.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots

For Students 6th - 8th
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balloon Joust

For Students 3rd - 8th
Prepare your balloons, using barbeque skewers and straws, for a balloon joust with your friends.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Air Cannon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your air cannon using simple items like a paper cup, a plastic bag, and pom poms; then see how far you can shoot the pom poms.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Treasure Grab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Grab all the treasure you can and test your driving skills with your Treasure Grabber made with string, paper clips, and a straw.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Indoor Slingshot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: String Puppet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your own puppets that move, bend, and twist at your command simply using straws and fishing string.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 4 Wheel Balloon Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 2 Wheel Balloon Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make your own 2-wheel, air-power cars and race them or play games with them. Balloons and straws are them main components.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Marshmallow Blaster

For Students K - 1st
Shoot marshmallows across the room with your own Marshmallow Blaster.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel

For Students K - 1st
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
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Pbs Learning Media: Puppy Walker

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This Zoom video segment features Brett, a boy who trains puppies to be seeing-eye dogs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Grassland Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Nature features a greeting ceremony by grassland elephants in Kenya.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mitosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment, adapted from the Interactive Secret of Life videodisc, explains the stages of mitosis, the process of dividing equally a cell's massive jumble of DNA just prior to cell division. [1:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Snapshot of u.s. Energy Use

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment by bending and folding sheets of paper into various shapes to see which shape will support the weight of a heavy book. [3:33]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Frontline

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE introduces the electromagnetic spectrum and explains how the various types of electromagnetic waves are distinguished by the amount of energy each wave carries.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fossilized Dinosaur Bones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features a variety of images of fossilized dinosaur bones, which provide evidence for the existence of these fascinating reptiles.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Resources: Monroe Doctrine, 1823

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript of the Monroe Doctrine written by President James Monroe in 1823. This document established a foreign policy that any European nations attempting to colonize in North or South America would be seen as aggression and the...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Exp: Southern Response to Civil Rights Speech, 1948

For Students 9th - 10th
In response to Harry Truman's views of civil rights, a Democrat from Mississippi voices his displeasure in the concept of a Civil Rights Movementto grant equal freedoms to all citizens of the United States.
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Pbs Learning Media: Aiming for the Basketball Hall of Fame

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pizza Toppings

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This Cyberchase video features Bianca who uses Venn Diagrams to make a pizza that satisfies the topping preferences of her friends.
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Pbs Learning Media: Frog Hops, Part 2

For Students 6th - 9th
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must figure out the new input/output pattern on Hacker's larger cyberfrog.