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Pbs Learning Media: Cyber Squad Film Shoot: Day 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad reviews their budget for the second day of their film shoot in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Declining Profits

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the farmers of Vidarbha in central India who have seen a loss in profits due to the high cost of borrowing money and the low prices for their crops in a globalized market.
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how clouds participate in the water cycle. [0:32]
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Pbs Learning Media: Gila Monster

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Squatter's Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Protecting their farms from elephants is a daily fight for African farmers in the Sahel. In this video segment from Africa, learn about the relationship between the African farmers and elephants in the Sahel.
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Pbs Learning Media: Farm and City

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cell Differentiation

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Galileo: Sun Centered System

For Students 9th - 10th
In the early 1600s, most people believed that the Sun revolved around a stationary Earth. This video segment adapted from NOVA tells how Galileo proved that the Sun, not Earth, is at the center of our universe.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cats

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, learn about cats. Consider the possibility that the cat may become the number one choice for pet owners.
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Pbs Learning Media: Biome in a Baggie

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]
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Pbs Learning Media: Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" looks at photosynthesis, the chemical process plants use to make their own food.
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Pbs Learning Media: Growing Up, Growing Old

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This collection of six images captures the magnificence of human development -- the transformation from baby to woman.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cell Membrane: Just Passing Through

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive feature describes some of the most important structures and functions of the cell membrane.
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Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
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Pbs Learning Media: Technology Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pigs as Pets

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, animal lovers talk about their experiences having pigs as pets. In addition to the video, the site offers teaching tips as well as a transcript of the video and a connection to state standards.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tornado

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how a tornado is formed and what a tornado does.
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Pbs Learning Media: Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th
Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.
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Pbs Learning Media: One Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Wide Angle describes the communist Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea.
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Pbs Learning Media: Percent as a Means to Compare Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad uses fractions and percents to compare the contest results of the Squitters, little creatures who love to jump.
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Pbs Learning Media: Multiplying Bigger Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez, Jackie and Digit use multiplication to keep track of the number of clones.
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Pbs Learning Media: Feed That Dog

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad solves the problem of giving equal parts of two apples to Cerberus, the three headed dog of Greek mythology, in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Grubby's Wacky Worms

For Students 3rd - 8th
Wicked and Digit must solve a fraction problem in order to free the CyberSquad in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Figuring Out Elapsed Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, through addition and regrouping in base sixty, Matt helps Digit figure out what time his CyberSouffle will be done.