Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Air Bag Design

9th - 10th
Using automobile crash test footage, this video segment adapted from NOVA shows some of the challenges in designing the air bag.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fire Safety in High Rises

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how the sprinkler revolutionized fire safety and also features developments in fire-safety design for high-rise buildings.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mad Hot Tango: Caeli Smith

9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 15-year-old violinist Caeli Smith plays a wonderful movement from Astor Piazzolla's L'histoire du tango, called Bordel 1900. [0:49]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Islamic Celebrations

9th - 10th
Members of the Islamic Center of Washington, DC discuss the religious and spiritual significance of Ramadan and the celebration that concludes it, Eid al-Fitr, in this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. [1:50]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Ramadan

9th - 10th
This video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly shows the daily activities of two young American Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. [3:10]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Zakaat

9th - 10th
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Imam Bashar Arafat, a scholar and interfaith leader in Baltimore, Maryland, describes zakaat, an almsgiving tax that Muslims pay annually. [2:01]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Triangles: Testing the Strength of a Gumdrop Dome

3rd - 8th
Can a dome made of gumdrops and toothpicks support the weight of a stack of books? To find out, watch this video segment adapted from ZOOM. [2:31]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Hana's Japanese Drums

Pre-K - 1st
In this ZOOM video segment, join Hana as she learns traditional Japanese drumming with her Taiko group. [2:47]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Glider Boy

Pre-K - 1st
Meet 12-year-old Jesse, the designer of dozens of gliders, in this ZOOM video segment. Some of his gliders fit in your hand, while others can only be stored in the garage. Watch his gliders go and learn why they fly. [2:50]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 2

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Viola, the heroine, is rescued from a shipwreck. She finds she is in a land ruled by an eligible bachelor (Orsino) and disguises herself as a man to protect...
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 3

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Maria are introduced and their roles in this play established. Sir Toby wishes for the forever-intoxicated Sir Andrew to...
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 4

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Feste sings a song for the Duke and Viola (Cesario, and the two discuss the way men and women approach love. [7:31]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 3 Sc 1

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Olivia confesses her love to Viola (Cesario), but Cesario refuses her advances. Desperate, Olivia asks Cesario to come again saying that she will grow to love...
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Twelfth Night Act 5

9th - 10th
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Olivia realizes she has married Sebastian and Viola (Cesario) reveals to Orsino that she is a woman. Malvolio is freed from captivity and Sir Toby and Maria...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bt Corn

9th - 10th
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" looks at corn that has been genetically modified to resist one insect pest and the multiple concerns it raises.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Listening With Your Eyes: Matthew Lipman

9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 16-year-old violist Matthew Lipman plays La Campanella" from the Second Violin Concerto by Niccolo Paganini. [4:12]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: American Muslim Women

9th - 10th
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly video about the perceptions and challenges of being a Muslim woman in the United States. [7:21]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ramadan Observance

9th - 10th
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, an American Muslim family observes Ramadan, the month in which Muslims fast daily from sunrise to sunset in order to demonstrate piety and develop self-restraint. [6:06]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hurricane at Pteranodon Terrace

Pre-K - K
In this Dinosaur Train episode, the Pteranodon family and friends take shelter in a cave while a hurricane rages around them. [12:46]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Discoveries: Minerals

Pre-K - 1st
In this Dinosaur Train clip, a paleontologist describes how minerals form deep inside the Earth, where it is very hot.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Discovering Minerals

Pre-K - 1st
While exploring, the Pteranodon family finds minerals, and Mr. Pteranodon helps them to understand the difference between rocks and minerals.
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Dads' Day Rained Out

Pre-K - 1st
In this Dinosaur Train Clip, students learn the importance of rain to all life cycles. [1:24]
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Ac Versus Dc: What's the Difference?

9th - 10th
This animated essay from "American Experience" explains the difference between alternating and direct electric current and offers in-depth explanations about the role played by a battery, light bulb, wire, and generator. [2:27]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Funny Boat

3rd - 8th
Contestants are challenged to use materials from a garbage dump to build a boat that floats, can be steered, and is propelled by something other than oars.