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Pbs Learning Media: Laughing
A video from Write Now providing a unique writing prompt about laughter.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Game
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Pbs Learning Media: Vehicles
WLVT PBS 39 and PSEA present Write Now! video writing prompts, which are tools for educators and students to use in the classroom to encourage createive writing. This prompt asks: If you placed two different cars in a race, which one...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fire
Fire shows a building under fire and asks the students to write a story about how this fire might have started.
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Pbs Learning Media: Money
Video writing prompt asks, do you ever feel like you are throwing money away? Why or why not? [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure asks the students to write a script for Bill and Ted, the penguins featured in this video clip.
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Pbs Learning Media: Freedom
This video clip prompts students to write about their feelings when they have visited one of the great American monuments
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Pbs Learning Media: Holidays
Holidays video clip prompts students to write about two of their favorite family traditions.
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Wisewire: Use Precise Language
Practice identifying precise language by reading passages and answering questions. Answers are provided. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.d
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Research Project Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Students
This resource provides guided research teaching units for all levels of learners.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Units
In this exercise, students solve word problems that involve using different units. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Pbs Learning Media: Desert Elephants
In this video from Nature, observe elephants trek across the desert to an isolated waterhole. [4:13]
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Pbs Learning Media: Puppy Walker
This Zoom video segment features Brett, a boy who trains puppies to be seeing-eye dogs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Backyard Bugs
This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics. [2:48]
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Dot Dash: The Balance Small Business: How Copyright Works With Social Media
The copyright process has become fairly simple with traditional works like books, plays, movies, and theater. But copyright is a little more difficult with the advent of the internet. For example, bloggers must be aware of what they...
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Pbs Learning Media: Out of Proportion
Students are asked to explain how natural disasters affect environmental health.
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Pbs Learning Media: In This Together
Students are asked to explain how a crane's parts work together to achieve the end result.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Words to Expressions 1
This problem allows students to see words that can describe the expression from part (c) of "5.OA Watch out for Parentheses." Additionally, the words (add, sum) and (product, multiply) are all strategically used so that the student can...
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious: Cancer a New Treatment
Short video from Curious in which Mark Davis is motivated to develop a new, less debilitating treatment for his wife's cancer. [4:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: City Horses Part Ii
Wild TV short video in which riders discuss the benefits of coming to the Cedar Lane Stables in New York City. [2:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Diffusion
Students are asked to explain the process shown as the red material is placed in the colorless liquid.
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth and Moon
Students are asked to compare and contrast the earth and the moon.