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Pbs Learning Media: Modern Muslim Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pickle Business

For Students 9th - 10th
Widows from the village of Tamra in the Galilee manage all of the aspects of their small business in this video segment from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Political Debate in Turkey

For Students 9th - 10th
A hot topic of debate in Turkey is the possibility of an increasingly Islamic state in this historically secular country. Learn more in this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Race and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, one of Brazil's few black senators discusses racial discrimination in Brazilian governmental, political and economic life.
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Pbs Learning Media: Instant Messaging

For Students 9th - 10th
This prompt asks students to write about their experience with Instant Messaging, including how long they spend online each day. The student should also include whether they think IM'ing affects their schoolwork or not.
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Pbs Learning Media: Stories in the Ice

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a journey back through time, using ice cores to learn about Earth's climatic history, including evidence of global warming and nuclear activity.
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Pbs Learning Media: Budgets

For Students 9th - 10th
Budgets shows a variety of ways money is used and asks students to list the products that they use each day and to compute how much money they will need to earn to afford to live on their own.
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Pbs Learning Media: Work Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Wide Angle, Mary, a college educated Zimbabwean migrant, describes her life and work in Botswana.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Smoking Section

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.
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Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
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Pbs Learning Media: Life Stages Cards: Frog, Butterfly, and Dragonfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this document undergo one of the most dramatic developmental processes known, metamorphosis. See if you can place the developmental stages in their proper order.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature: Cloud Age Four

For Students 9th - 10th
In this short Nature video, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild. This is one in a series of three videos about Cloud. [2:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Testing With Models

For Students K - 1st
In this video segment from Cyberchase, learn about the importance of creating a model as the CyberSquad designs a giant "Trojan Ducky" that will help them enter a fort without being noticed. [4:17]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: A Garden Grows in Brooklyn

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Short video about a Brooklyn garden and how it serves the community as a gathering place and an escape from hectic city life. [2:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Farmers in Peril

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.
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Pbs Learning Media: Self Reliance

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment takes a look at the North Korean ideology of self-reliance that both farmers and other workers uphold.
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Pbs Learning Media: Teachers' Domain

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom that provides learning experiences in ways no textbook can. This ever-expanding library currently includes collections on: Science: Life Science, Physical Science,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: A Look at a Kenyan Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about education in Kenya by visiting the first-grade classroom of Joab, a young Kenyan boy. [2:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: An Unexpected Guest

For Students 3rd - 6th
Cyberchase video in which a man must adjust his dinner budget after his cousin unexpectedly decides to join him on his date. [3:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: Space Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are prompted to respond to the question, do you think money spent on space exploration is justified?
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now!: If at First You Don't Succeed?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video prompt asks students to write about something that they have worked at in order to become successful and what obstacles they had to overcome. [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Microscope Use

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain why scientists need to adjust the position of objects under a microscope.
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Pbs Learning Media: Catch Me if You Can

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain the predator/prey relationship and how it helps to maintain the balance of the ecosystems.
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Pbs Learning Media: Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto Clemente

For Students 9th - 10th
In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students learn about baseball legend Roberto Clemente, his early years in the United States during segregation, and changes in the 1960s that made the U.S. culture more open to...