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Pbs Learning Media: Unlikely Travel Companions

9th - 10th
A variety of symbiotic relationships exist between sharks and other marine species in this segment from Nature. [2:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contamination Affects Food Web

9th - 10th
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.3m 03s
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Pbs Learning Media: Bullfrog Films: Gwich'in Tribe Protects Caribou and Culture

9th - 10th
Gwich'in Chief Evon Peter of Arctic Village, Alaska explains the importance of the caribou to his people and the tribes need to protect the herd from the effects of oil drilling. [5:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Islamic Art

9th - 10th
This video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly highlights the traveling exhibition Palace and Mosque, which features one of the most renowned Islamic art collections in the world. [2:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Shark and Turtle

9th - 10th
In this Nature video, watch a battle between a loggerhead turtle and a shark. [2:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Steve Mac Lean: Conservationist

9th - 10th
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet conservationist Steve MacLean, an Inupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, who works to preserve the health of the Bering Sea ecosystem. Site includes short essay, discussion questions,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hajj Part I

9th - 10th
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, meet an American Muslim as he prepares for Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca that commemorates the Abrahamic roots of Islam. [3:08]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hajj Part Ii

9th - 10th
Performed with over two million other Muslims, the rites of Hajj, the required pilgrimage to Mecca, have a profound personal impact on each pilgrim. In this video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a Muslim from America experiences...
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Pbs Learning Media: Halal Kosher Dining at Dartmouth

9th - 10th
A dining hall at Dartmouth College accommodates the religious dietary requirements of Muslims, Jews and Hindus as explained in this video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. [2:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: What Is Astrobiology?

9th - 10th
In this video from the Science and Technology Chat series, learn about astrobiology, an interdisciplinary field that uses biology, astronomy, and geology to study the origins of life on Earth and to search for possible life on other...
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Pbs Learning Media: Kelp Forest

9th - 10th
This video from Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, describes the unique, interdependent characteristics of an underwater kelp forest ecosystem and explores the delicate balance of life between sea otters, urchins, and the kelp...
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Pbs Learning Media: Gravity at Earth's Center

9th - 10th
In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about the effects of gravity as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson falls through a virtual hole through Earth's center. [1:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Atoms: The Space Between

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey takes a look at the scale of the atom and the tremendous amount of space between the electrons and the nucleus. If all this empty space exists in matter, how can any substance be solid?...
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Pbs Learning Media: Magna Carta: Relevant for the 21st Century

9th - 10th
A video from the James Otis Lecture Series that examines ways that the Magna Carta is still relevant today, and why citizen participation in government and community is so important to a democratic society. Accompanied by teaching tips...
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Pbs Learning Media: Balancing Equations With Multiple Terms

3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Digit and Inez must balance two number sentences to save the bunnies of Cyberspace.
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Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: The Way Things Move: Building Dams Pt. 2

Pre-K - 1st
Watch these children build two dams, and then see how they play a trick! [1:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: An Unpredictable Environment

9th - 10th
Short video in which Inuit observers describe how their traditional understanding of weather patterns is being challenged by unpredictable weather behaviors. [3:10]
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Pbs Learning Media: Unique Species of Kentucky's Green River

9th - 10th
This video from Kentucky's Last Great Places shows how the Green River has remained unusually clean and why it is home to several endangered aquatic species. [4:13]
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Pbs Learning Media: Desirable Breeding Traits in Cattle

9th - 10th
This video from Nature offers a description of desirable traits in beef and dairy cattle. [2:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Madrasahs

9th - 10th
This video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly gives a primer on the history and evolution of madrasahs, institutes of higher learning in Islamic studies. [7:10]
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Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Experimenting With Balloons

3rd - 8th
Watch the ZOOM cast find out how many balloons filled with air and then with water are required to support the weight of a cast member. [4:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Air Power: Experimenting With Balloons

3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members experiment with the amount of air expelled first from a balloon, then through a straw attached to it, and see how both affect a balloon's behavior. [2:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing Electric Circuits: Steadiness Tester

3rd - 5th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members discover that metal is a good conductor of electricity as they play the steadiness tester game. [1:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Inventor: The Couch Protector

9th - 10th
Want to keep your dog off the couch? In this video segment from ZOOM, inventor Jason demonstrates his invention that does just that: a couch protector. [1:15]