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Pbs Learning Media: Magna Carta: Rule of Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the rule of law and due process, first guaranteed by Magna Carta, became an essential component in U.S. constitutional law in this video with supporting materials. [1:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover how authors use figurative language to enhance their writing and explore the differences between similes and metaphors in this animated video [3:37] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their...
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Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Tone and Mood

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the difference between tone and mood in this animated video [2:28] from WNET through definitions and examples from poetry and prose. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Modern the Emperor's New Clothes: Video

For Students 5th
As you watch this modern version of The Emperor's New Clothes, take note of the character's personalities, how these characters interact, and how they are similar or different from one another. Check out the additional activities below...
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Pbs Learning Media: Rumpelstiltskin: Text

For Students 4th - 5th
This is an adaptation of the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin" in text form.
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Pbs Learning Media: Modern Rumpelstiltskin: Video

For Students 4th - 5th
As you watch this modern story of Rumpelstiltskin, take note of the characters, setting, and what happens in the story. Check out the additional activities below for the classroom and home, and watch the "Guided Viewing" version for...
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson challenges students to solve congestion and traffic delays in an intersection through modifying traffic signal operation. Students are required to collect traffic data, optimize the timing of a traffic signal via the use of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Aerospace Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of Aerospace Engineering learning modules will allow students to explore video and interactive media resources that support the middle and high school Engineering Design core ideas.
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Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 206 Blossom and Snappy Go to the Bank, Part Ii

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy continue to try to earn money for a present for Robbie's birthday by having a bake sale. They go back to the bank and learn about checking accounts and loans.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mapping Landforms and Water Bodies: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about different landforms and water bodies and the various characteristics that make them distinct from one another in this lesson plan from WGBH. Navigate around a virtual island to unlock information -- including videos and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fast and Slow Changes on Earth's Surface

For Students K - 1st
Observe fast and slow events that change the face of Earth's surface with this slideshow. Students will use evidence from videos and images to describe how changes on Earth's surface can happen quickly or slowly. Students will have the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water

For Students K - 1st
Navigate around the island to explore various landforms and water bodies in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING. Journey around the island and pick up trash to unlock information - including videos and ground-level and aerial images...
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Pbs: A World of Stories: Ten Little Chicks/diez Pollitos

For Students K - 1st Standards
Count chicks in this fun game. Song available in Spanish and English.
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Pbs: A World of Stories: The Beaded Bag

For Students K - 1st Standards
Kentucky-based storyteller Mary Hamilton tells a haunting tale set in Victorian times, about a man who gives a young lady a ride across the Ohio River to her home in Louisville. When she disappears, he learns that he has become part of a...
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Pbs: A World of Stories: The Boo Hag

For Students K - 1st Standards
North Carolina-based storyteller Donna Washington tells a scary tale from the Gullah culture about a man and his beautiful wife-who is not what she seems to be. The story explains the Gullah tradition of painting doors and windows blue...
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Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: The Other Drug War Teacher's Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Consider the debate over prescription drug pricing, the government's role in regulating drug prices, concepts of media literacy and the role of these concepts in pharmaceutical advertising, in this Teacher's Guide to "The Other Drug...
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Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Sick Around the World Teacher's Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about health care in other countries with this Teacher's Guide to "Sick Around the World." The FRONTLINE video explores how ?ve other capitalist democracies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -...
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Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: League of Denial: Is Football Safe for Kids?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about health risks faced by football players and write down your responses to evidence that football may be unsafe for children, in this interactive lesson featuring media from FRONTLINE: League of Denial. The lesson focuses on...
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Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Rethinking the Fabrics We Wear

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students examine natural and synthetic fibers. Students explore the photo essay in groups and discuss how the sheep farmer offers an alternative to mass production with a focus on the themes of resiliency and...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Internet's Impact on Our Culture Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of instructional videos analyzes how the internet has created a system for everyone to engag.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Good Stuff

For Students 9th - 10th
This module is led by Craig Benzine as he scours the depths of the universe and the recesses of the inner mind on a never-ending quest for The Good Stuff.
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Pbs Learning Media: The 1980s Farm Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This 90-minute film was produced by Iowa PBST Farm Crisis. This feaure examines the economic and personal disasters that afflicted the agriculture sector in the 1980s.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Activity Deck

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Six TEAMology social-emotional activities from their SEL curriculum, plus a coloring and activity book to use with students in grades PreK-5th grade.
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