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Pbs Learning Media: What Do Animals Eat?
Some animals -- like some children -- are notoriously picky eaters. Others will eat whatever they can find. This video segment explores the diversity of feeding habits among some of the world's creatures. [1:10]
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Pbs: Teachers' Domain: Evolving Ideas: Why Does Evolution Matter Now?
In this video from Evolution, an exploration of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the Russian prison system highlights one reason it is important to understand evolution.
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Pbs Learning Media: Darwin: Reluctant Rebel
This video segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," together with interviews with Daniel Dennett and James Moore, depicts Darwin struggling with publicizing his revolutionary theory. [6:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolution of Camouflage
This video segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" illustrates the remarkable camouflage of a praying mantis against its leafy backdrop. [0:57]
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Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Hillary's Neighborhood
In this video segment from ZOOM, Hillary, from Randolph, MA, takes us on a tour of the columns in her neighborhood. [0:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Designer: A Comfortable Cardboard Chair
Follow along in this video segment from ZOOM as 13-year-old Nick explains how he came up with a design, tested materials, and constructed his own cardboard chair. [2:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Blast Off!
Curious George is the only one who can restock the International Space Station with supplies, which means he's going up to space in a rocket! After students watch the video, they build and launch their own air-powered rockets, which they...
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Pbs Learning Media: Flood: Farming and Erosion
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists investigate how farming along the Mississippi River impacts floods and what can be done about it.
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Pbs Learning Media: Solar Still Part I: Salt Water
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members assemble a solar still and make fresh water from saltwater, demonstrating two steps of the water cycle, evaporation and condensation. 3m 32s
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Pbs Learning Media: Triangles: Designing a Newspaper Chair
Watch the ZOOM cast build a chair out of newspaper by making good use of the strength of triangles. [4:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Ancient Farmers of the Amazon
This video segment from Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race" tells the story of the leafcutter ant and the fungus it farms -- an example of mutually beneficial symbiosis. [4:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: How Dna Replicates
This narrated animation from Interactive NOVA: "The Secret of Life" illustrates DNA replication. [48 mimn]
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Sort It Out!
When Curious George invites a group of dogs home from the Dog Show, he has to figure out a way to sort them so that he can count them correctly. After watching the video, students learn about classifying objects that have common...
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Pbs Learning Media: Hexagons
In this video segment [1:55] from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad tessellates hexagons to finish crossing the lava river.
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Pbs Learning Media: Designing Electric Circuits: Door Alarm
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members design and build door alarms using a variety of materials, including aluminum foil, batteries, and buzzers. [3:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Beneath the Waters of Cocos Island
Cocos Island, a remote volcanic summit in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, serves as a beacon for hungry predators, including thousands of hammerhead sharks that travel here each year in search of prey. This video segment from NOVA:...
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Ramp N Roll
In the video Hundley's Great Escape, Curious George and the cat, Gnocchi, can easily climb out through a window in the basement when the door closes behind them. Now George must figure out how to build a ramp so that Hundley, a little...
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Conservation: Israel
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis shows how Israel has attempted to meet the challenge of providing enough water for agricultural needs. Featured are two methods: recycled water and drip irrigation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Bears in the Schoolyard
Learn about the precautions humans must take in the face of a growing grizzly bear population in this video from Nature. [3:06]
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Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Water Trombone
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, demonstrates how to use a drinking straw and a bottle full of water to make low- and high-pitched sounds. [1:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device
This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE features original footage of the U.S. test of the first hydrogen device, code-named "Mike", that would trigger thermonuclear fusion. [4:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Air Power: Making a Hovercraft
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table. Experiment instructions are also available in a PDF...
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Pbs Learning Media: Using a Compass to Find Your Way
Kelsey and Ryan show how to use a compass as they race through their orienteering course in this video segment from ZOOM. [2:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Conductivity: Kid Circuits
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members join hands and become electron conductors to complete an electric circuit. [3:32]