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Pbs Learning Media: William Henry Harrison Makes the Front Page! Lesson Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson plan videos, images, activities for students to General William Henry Harrison's involvement in the War of 1812.
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Pbs Learning Media: First Ladies and Their Aides

For Students 9th - 10th
From Harrison's presidency, all of the President of the United States' wives have had a wait staff and personal aides. This is a gallery of a few First Ladies and their aides.
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Pbs Learning Media: First Ladies' Service

For Students 9th - 10th
The First Ladies of the United States have a history of being philanthropical towards their passions. Whatever they advocate for, they have committed many years of service throughout the years. Find out some outreach that a few of these...
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Pbs Learning Media: First Ladies' Speaking Engagements

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at a few of the Presidents' wives donating their time for speaking engagements.
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Pbs Kids: Peg and Cat: Chicken Blastoff

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help build perfectly shaped spaceships for all the farm animals so they can blast off into space.
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Pbs Learning Media: The High Cost of Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India, in this video from Wide Angle. [2:30]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Voyage of Zheng He I

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America? introduces the theory that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus.
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Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Seed Racer

For Students K - 1st
Help Plum collect all the different kinds of seeds before time runs out. Fun, interactive game shows how different seeds propagate. Look out for those crows!
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Pbs Learning Media: The Emperor's New Clothes: Text

For Students 5th
This is adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes" in text format.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Ups and Downs

For Students K - 1st
Explore sports science and build a ramp that will roll a ball right to the target.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Bottle Cap Hockey

For Students K - 1st
Explore sports science and see how many points can you score with your bottle caps in Ruff's take on table hockey.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Fish Force

For Students K - 1st
Use science inquiry to predict and investigate forces and motion to help rescue Ruff's plushie from the penguins' ice rink in this sports science game.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Sports Science

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about sports science and force and motion alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Chocolate Mug Cake

For Students K - 1st
Explore kitchen chemistry and make a chocolate mug cake in less than 5 minutes.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Rainbow Popsicle

For Students K - 1st
Explore kitchen chemistry and make a cool rainbow popsicle.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Ruff's Cookie Creator

For Students K - 1st
Use science inquiry to explore and test different ingredients to help Ruff make, decorate, and serve cookies to his family in this kitchen science game.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Kitchen Chemistry

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about kitchen chemistry alongside Ruff Ruffman. Students can use the videos, games, and activities from The Ruff Ruffman Show to discover how by investigating solids and liquids and exploring heating and cooling, science can help...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, young scholars can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
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Pbs Learning Media: Making Civics Real: Controversial Public Policy Issues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of lesson plans contains background information on the teacher and school featured in the one hour video Workshop 7: Controversial Public Policy Issues.
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Pbs Learning Media: Blogging, Civic Engagement and the Dream Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This multi-task lesson asks students to look at the DREAM Act in the context of immigration reform and also to reflect on blogging as civic engagement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Who's Being Left Behind?: Wide Angle: Time for School

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015. But around the world, minorities are being left behind.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pen Pals: Wide Angle: Time for School

For Students 9th - 10th
Pen pals from Long Island, NY and Nairobi, Kenya exchange video messages about school, family and their hopes for the future.