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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist: Vanessa Venable
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Vanessa Venable describes the impact of school closings in Prince Edward County, Virginia, from 1959-1964.
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Leader, Rev. C. T. Vivian
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, the Reverend C. T. Vivian remembers his leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement and the risks civil rights activists took in challenging segregation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Igloo 101
Learn what it takes to build an igloo from the best kind of snow to the most effective tools and other little-known facts about these traditional Canadian Inuit structures in this interactive activity from NOVA.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Glacial Change
This collection of comparative glacier images adapted from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows substantial changes in five Alaskan glacier positions over periods of 60 to 100 years.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree
This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create...
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Pbs Learning Media: Rn Ai Explained
Using scientific animations and illustrated metaphors, this interactive activity from NOVA scienceNOW explains RNAi and how it works.
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Pbs Learning Media: Acid Lake
Students will add acidity to a healthy lake to see what happens to plants and animals in this interactive activity adapted from EcoKids.
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Pbs Learning Media: Laser Waterfall
In this video from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, students will observe how a laser beam is trapped in a water jet because the light reflects against the surface of the water. [1:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wavelength
In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab, students will learn how to measure wavelengths and see how wavelength affects the color of the light that we see.
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Pbs Learning Media: Waterslides
Join Valerie and Margie as they devise ways to measure how fast and how "wild" two water slides are in this video from DragonflyTV. [3:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Molecular Shapes
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will learn about covalent molecules and how the VSEPR theory predicts the shapes of covalently-bonded molecules.
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Pbs Learning Media: Particulate Nature of Matter
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will examine the basic properties of matter at an atomic level and consider how various atoms affect the way a substance behaves.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Brown v Board of Education, 1954
The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Brown v Board of Education, 1955
The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Collected Excerpts
This collection of excerpts from legislation and court decisions documents key phases of the legal struggle to gain and implement equal education.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hyde County School Boycott
Narrative tells the story of a yearlong boycott to protest the closing of historically black schools in Hyde County, North Carolina.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Mendez v Westminster
This 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the "separate but equal" doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the "separate but equal" doctrine that sanctioned segregation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Selected Haiku by Issa
Learn more about the Japanese form of poetry known as haiku. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, the poet Robert Hass reads a short collection of amusing, often ironic haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. [1:32]
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Pbs Learning Media: Belle Isle, 1949, by Philip Levine
In Philip Levine's post-war poem, "Belle Isle, 1949," two strangers meet, swim, and part, exploring themes of connection, boundaries, and where we come from. This video segment comes from Poetry Everywhere. [1:29]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Beginnings of the Telescope
This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.
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Pbs Learning Media: Radio Waves: Fm vs. Am
This brief essay from A Science Odyssey Web site describes the difference between FM and AM radio waves.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lever an Obelisk
Investigate the mechanical advantage of the lever in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Radio Transmission
This interactive activity from A Science Odyssey tracks the journey of a sound wave from the moment a musician sings into a microphone until his voice reaches the vibrating speakers of an AM Radio.