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Pbs Learning Media: Farm Solutions to Water Pollution

9th - 10th
In this video from Common Ground and Cleaner Water, Tribby Vice, a Kentucky farmer, talks about the changes he has made on his farm to protect the water quality of the stream running through his property and the watershed in which he...
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Pbs Learning Media: Bats of the Southwest

9th - 10th
This video segment from the Nevada Department of Wildlife looks at various species of bats and how they impact the environment. [3:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Talking Bacteria

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, microbiologist Bonnie Bassler shares her discovery that bacteria coordinate group activity by communicating through chemical signals. [4:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: How the Body Responds to Exercise

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, follow novice runners as they train for a marathon, and discover how quickly the body responds to regular aerobic exercise.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Class Divided 1: The Daring Lesson

9th - 10th
This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970. [10:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Levers: Raising the Moai on Easter Island

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a team of archaeologists and engineers explores different uses of the lever by recreating the engineering feats of the ancient Easter Island peoples. [4:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Nasa

9th - 10th
From radio waves to gamma rays, this video segment from NASA introduces the seven categories of the electromagnetic spectrum and how each type of radiation is part of our everyday lives. [2:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sound and Solids: Listening Stick

1st - 5th
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through air than through solids like a yardstick, a baseball bat, and a golf club. [1:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy

3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy. [2:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Segway Technology: What's Newton Got to Do With It?

9th - 10th
What do the laws of physics have to do with engineering? Find out in this video segment featuring inventor Dean Kamen and his inventions, the IBOT and the Segway. [8:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hubble's Expanding Universe

9th - 10th
We know the universe is expanding, but how? This adapted video segment, using footage from NOVA and NASA, examines Edwin Hubble's work and how his findings laid the foundation for the Big Bang theory. [3:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain

9th - 10th
What happens to nuclear waste? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE explores the controversy surrounding the United States' first nuclear repository site. [1:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Super Sounding Drums

3rd - 8th
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores sounds made by homemade drums of different sizes, shapes, and materials. [3:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Experimenting With a Glass Xylophone

3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast investigates how the pitch of sound changes when they strike a variety of glasses filled with different amounts and types of liquids. [5:07]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wind Story: Wind Power

9th - 10th
The characteristics of wind power as a source of clean energy are described in this animated movie.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves

9th - 10th
A tour of radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. [3:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bridging Culture, Community and Science

9th - 10th
See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities. [5:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: Tropical Ice Cores Measure Climate

9th - 10th
Video segment explains how tropical mountain glaciers can help glaciologists understand the Earth's climate history. Background essay and discussion questions are provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Volcanoes in the Infrared

9th - 10th
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, satellite imagery and infrared cameras are used to study and predict eruptions of volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. [2:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: American Experience: Building the Alaska Oil Pipeline

9th - 10th
Short AMERICAN EXPERIENCE video tells the story of how environmentalists, Alaska Native peoples, and engineers concerned about the effects of permafrost challenged plans for the Alaska oil pipeline. [5:19]
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Pbs Learning Media: Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and Snow

9th - 10th
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, students provide field measurements that researchers need in order to understand how lakes in Alaska are changing as a result of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Global Warming Threatens Shishmaref

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, visit the Alaska Native village of Shishmaref, and learn how an entire town may be forced to relocate because of warmer temperatures, melting sea ice, and coastal erosion.
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Pbs Learning Media: Storyknife Productions: Alaska Native Pilots

9th - 10th
In this video, Alaska Native pilots share how they rely on modern science and traditional knowledge to read the landscape and recognize weather patterns. [4:19]
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Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contaminants Hidden From View

9th - 10th
This video adapted from KTOO explores why the beaches of Latouche Island and Knight Island, Alaska, contain remnants of an oil spill and discusses its resulting impact on the Alutiiq community of Chenega Bay.3m 37s