Pbs Learning Media: Easy Fit Design

This learning experience fosters awareness of representations we see, and don't see, in the media. Learners list TV programs, games, and films they enjoy, identify characters' ethnic, religious, (dis)ability, and sexual orientation...

Critical thinking and social justice are central themes for this resource on bias and crime in media. The class views and discusses an incisive PSA that highlights assumptions based on race. Small groups read newspaper opinion pieces...

How does media ownership affect what we read, watch, and listen to—and how much we pay for it? Part of an extensive media literacy series, the video takes viewers back to the beginning of it all. From the birth of the telephone to...

In what direction is our wired world going? Scholars prepare to interact with the technology of the future using a video from a series that focuses on media literacy. The narrator proposes viewers keep a skeptical mind as they interact...

Using automobile crash test footage, this video segment adapted from NOVA shows some of the challenges in designing the air bag.

A collection of commodities market analysts present their "tricks of the trade" highlighting the data reports they rely on to effectively analyze the markets. A video, essays about the market, commodities, cash marketing, etc. and a...

Check out a world map hosting a variety of options for views of various soil types. Identify the different soils and where they can be found.

Activities in this comprehensive interactive tutorial will involve determining the strengths and limitations of epidemiological reports. You will also evaluate media messages and develop your own.

In this video segment adapted from Design Squad, a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges, students employ the concepts of tension and compression as they build a truss bridge without the aid of...

In this video segment adapted from Design Squad, a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges, students employ the concepts of tension and compression to build a suspension bridge without the aid of...