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Pbs Learning Media: Relative Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A relative adverb is a word that talks about a place, time, or reason for something. Remember the three "w's": where, when, and why. [0:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: What Are Collective Nouns?

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
A collective noun is a word that refers to a group, such as a collection, a herd, a team! [0:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s", but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
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Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Reference Materials

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A dictionary is one of the most useful reference books anybody could ever use. Learn how to properly understand a dictionary's formatting and content! [0:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: Interjections Are Cool!

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Hey! Listen to this. [0:48] Interjections are words that are typically exclaimed to convey the writer's sentiments or emotions on a matter. It may be followed by an exclamation point or a comma depending on the desired emotion.
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Pbs Learning Media: Some Frequently Confused Words

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
Some words in English can look and sound similar, but have entirely different meanings. Keep an eye and ear out for them; beware of commonly confused words. [0:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: How to Avoid Dangling Modifiers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Modifiers are phrases, clauses, or even just words that add description. In clear sentences, modifiers are next to target words they are describing. Dangling modifiers are modifiers with no target to describe, which can confuse many...
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Pbs Learning Media: Watch Out for Ambiguous Antecedents

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A pronoun's antecedent must be clear. There may be more than one word the pronoun could refer to, and in those cases it may be better not to use the pronoun. [0:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: Active and Passive Voice

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Know when to use verbs in the active voice or the passive voice. The active voice shows the subject acting. The passive voice shows something else acting on the subject. Most writers consider the active voice more colorful and avoid the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Main Idea and Details Cloud

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Students practice distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant ideas by identifying relevant details in a video segment about a wild horse roundup. Students watch the video, read the transcript, and identify details they believe are...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls | Industrial Engineering

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Industrial engineers improve processes by eliminating any waste of time, money, energy, or other resources. They need to understand how every part can affect the entire process and figure out how to balance each part to design the most...
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Pbs: Using Supporting Evidence to Interpret Meaning a Native American Folktale

For Teachers 1st - 4th
In this lesson, students will watch a video clip with a Native American storyteller telling a traditional story. Students will use supporting evidence from the story to give meaning to oral and written texts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Tips for Grown Ups

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn ways to stay active with your children, in this guide from Arthur: "Arthur Weighs In."
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Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Lunch Counter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Help children create a simple lunch counter where they can learn about dollars and cents and sharpen their business skills at the same time. This activity will help them learn coin values, count by fives and tens, and practice simple...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Logical Lunch

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
By using their deductive reasoning skills, children can help Henry and Avril pack a perfect picnic lunch. This activity will provide them with ways to use clues to solve a problem, group objects based on several attributes, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: The United Nations Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A broad overview of the history, structure, and accomplishments of the United Nations. Students review an overview of the institution and develop brief presentations in a group activity following a set of discussion questions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Environmental Change

For Students 6th - 9th
Students explore the connections that can exist in a natural environment, and examine how changes to the environment, particularly those caused by human activity, can affect those connections.
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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.