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Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game

For Students Pre-K - K
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: All About Emotions: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn to label emotions and how they can express them in different ways.
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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: 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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cats Yesterday and Today

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, discover the various roles the cat has played in our history. [6:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wolong's Pandas

For Students 9th - 10th
Wild pandas are treated at the Wolong Conservation Center in this video segment from Nature.
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Pbs Learning Media: Taking a Stand

For Students 9th - 10th
The Baka are a semi-nomadic forest people who live in the republic of Cameroon in central Africa. In this video from Africa, the Baka men meet with a government official for help to protect their forest.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sock Seeds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this ZOOMSci experiment, you're invited to walk through a grassy or weedy field in your stocking feet, then plant a sock and see what grows.
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Pbs Learning Media: Build a Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Survey potential bridge sites, research bridge design, and select the right bridge for the right location in this interactive activity from the NOVA: "Super Bridge" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth in Motion: Seasons

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive activity from the Adler Planetarium explains the "reasons for the seasons." Featured is a game in which Earth must be properly placed in its orbit in order to send Max, the host, to different parts of the world during...
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Pbs Learning Media: Einstein: How Smart Was He?

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay from the NOVA Web site explores the impact Einstein made on physics and most everything we know about the cosmos.
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Pbs Learning Media: Busterfield Library a Z

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show.
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Pbs Learning Media: Phases of the Moon

For Students Pre-K - 1st
When we look up at the night sky, why do we see the Moon's appearance changing over time from a full sphere to a crescent to nothing at all? Find the answers in this interactive resource adapted from the National Air and Space Museum.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Hurricanes Form

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mendel's Laws of Genetic Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity, adapted from the Dolan DNA Learning Center, uses Punnett squares to illustrate Mendel's laws of inheritance and how a particular gene combination results in a 3-to-1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Documentary: A Fragile Trust: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores the Jayson Blair story and other cases where journalists have breached the code of ethics in their efforts to get the story out. Students will examine the journalism code of ethics and its importance. They will view...
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Pbs Learning Media: Decisions on Deadline

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains two lesson plans and an interactive game that will facilitate discussion and deepen understanding of the complex issues raised in the documentary film, A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lorraine Hansberry: "A Raisin in the Sun": Analyzing Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this interactive lesson, discover how literary techniques like setting, characterization, and conflict contribute to the overarching theme of a text. Through analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play A Raisin in the Sun, explore...
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Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover how literary techniques like figurative language, imagery, and symbolism contribute to the overall meaning of a poem. Explore how a poet establishes and builds on a theme and the difference between tone and mood. Through a close...
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Pbs Learning Media: Writings of the Ancient Maya

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are introduced to the ancient Mayan civilization through their writings. They explore a social studies focus on the destruction of many Mayan writings by the Spanish and what archaeologists have learned from the writings that...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Columbian Exchange

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Americas with Columbus and introduced European, African, and Asian plants and...
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Pbs Kids "Zoom": Rube Goldberg Machine Building

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site from PBS Kids "Zoom" provides great ideas for building a Rube Goldberg machine around the house from common items. The information is complete with materials needed, instructions, and results on a level for elementary kids.
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Kamchatka: Bering Island

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBS television has aired "Kamchatka: Siberia's Forbidden Wilderness" and this website summarizes that film. In it explores Bering Island, which was discovered by Vitus Bering who died there in 1741. It details the week long events of...
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Nova: Roman Baths

For Students 9th - 10th
Great site from PBS on the Roman baths. Includes a very interesting section on what a day at the baths would include through an interactive map. Also has a game in which you construct a bath.