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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, students 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 young scholars 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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Article
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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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Article
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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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Comparing Education Around the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about Ken and Joab, two boys who are starting first grade. Ken attends school in Japan, while Joab lives in Kenya. Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding the two boys' experiences at school.
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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: Formulas: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson plan about formulas, students will be able to identify and apply the correct formula for a given situation, solve for any unknown component of the formulas for perimeter, circumference, and area of regular and...
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Professional Doc
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems Collection: Bringing the Universe to America's Classroom

For Teachers K - 1st
Explore different landforms and bodies of water around the world, observe and map landforms and water features, and practice observation and analysis skills through a virtual landscape and animated adventure in Plum's Island Explorer....
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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 Learning Media: Understanding Air: Climate Change and Modeling Combustion

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this lesson, learners learn about the components of air and the chemical reactions that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and explore the connection between carbon dioxide, climate change, and environmental health.
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Pbs: Rewards and Challenges of Self Employment

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Analyze the rewards and challenges of self-employment.
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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: Skydiving

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore air drag in this interactive simulation by dropping a can of frosting or gold brick.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Sci Girl: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
SciGirls has the bold goal of changing how millions of girls think about science, technology, engineering and math -- or STEM. Each half-hour episode highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Odd Squad: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Welcome to Odd Squad: the zaniest, craziest team of kid investigators around! Explore content below targeted at making elementary-level math a fun, imaginative experience, mixing concepts like arithmetic and geometry with fantastical...
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Activity
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: New Year Reflections

For Students K - 1st
Look back on last year and set goals for next with this New Year reflections worksheet from PBS KIDS!
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: My Family and Me Bingo: Grades 1 and 2

For Students K - 1st
A bilingual, weekly "Learn Along" Bingo card (one for PreK-K, one for Grades 1 & 2) will include a range of thematic learning opportunities for children to choose their own learning adventure. Printables require minimal supplies or...