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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 Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Printable Games and Activities

For Students Pre-K - K
Move and play with these activities from Peg + Cat! From playing hide and seek and imagining pirate stories to dancing like Misty Copeland, you will find a treasure of fun ideas in these five printable activities.
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Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Morning Badges Home Activity

For Students Pre-K - K
Counting and cardinality, measurement, and measureable attributes are all discovered in this activity from Peg + Cat. Your child can earn badges as they complete a morning routine with Peg and her best friend Cat.
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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: How Cancer Grows

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the growth of a carcinoma from initial mutation to widespread metastasis in this feature from the NOVA: "Cancer Warrior" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Riddle of the Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion Web site of "Evolution," the seven-episode series on PBS, piece together clues to how one of our early ancestors looked as you examine images from four significant fossil finds of Australopithecus afarensis.
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Pbs Learning Media: Two Points Determine a Line

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this video segment [2:10] from Cyberchase, Digit must make a straight line between the two points and then follow the path created.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tricking Hacker

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must reclaim the Totally Rad Ring by measuring its radius to create a perfect duplicate.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Puzzle of the Amulet of Amagansett

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Wicked and Digit use what they know about fractions to figure out how many jewels are missing from the Amulet of Amagansett.
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Pbs Learning Media: Solving the Sphinx's Fraction Problem

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, Wicked and Digit solve a fraction puzzle in order to move on in their quest to save the CyberSquad.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Chess Wager

For Students 6th - 9th
Harry and his friend make a wager on a game of chess and discuss the concept of exponential growth in this short Cyberchase video. [3:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: Lily Pad Escape

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad uses a magic lily pad to escape from a desert island.
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Pbs Learning Media: Reclaiming the Power

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad must equally divide a number of crumpets to reclaim the power stolen by Hacker in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Retrieving 2/5 of Electro Root

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Jackie and Inez figure out how to break an Electro-Root into 2/5, one of the ingredients for the antidote to Motherboard's virus.
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Pbs Learning Media: Keeping Track of the New York City Marathoners

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca figures out a way to count the thousands of runners in the New York City Marathon.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Bianca Gets a Present

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cyberchase video clip in which Bianca, who is babysitting, must take two girls trick-or-treating on Halloween. Students are asked to determine how the two girls will split their candy equally between the three of them. [3:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Bianca the Spy

For Students 6th - 8th
Cyberchase video introduces the idea of inverse operations as Bianca imagines herself as a spy. [3:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: How Many Jelly Beans?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez estimates whether she has enough jelly beans in her large container to decorate all of the cookies in her batch.
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Pbs Learning Media: Making Popcorn Balls (Multiplication)

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, Bianca uses multiplication to help her adjust the recipe for popcorn balls.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sharing Candy Among Gargoyles

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad must divide 35 candies evenly among seven gargoyles in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Three Equal Shares

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must divide a wreath into three equal parts to satisfy the demands of the Three Fates.
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Pbs Learning Media: Scaling Up Photographs

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, Bianca volunteers to take over an important job at a copy shop. She must make a life-size copy of a photo of the King of Sloovoonia.