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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Eric the Red and Leif Ericson
Learn about Norwegian explorers Eric the Red and his son Leif Ericson who lived five hundred years before Christopher Columbus and explored Greenland and North America. [4:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Alan Shepard
Learn about the life of astronaut Alan Shepard and how he came to be the fifth person on the moon. [5:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Christopher Columbus
Even today, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus is a controversial figure. Learn about his life and voyages, and why there is so much disagreement about his legacy. [4:48]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Neil Armstrong
Learn about the life of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon's surface. [5:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who conquered and annihilated the Aztec Empire. This video examines his life and how he defeated the Aztecs. [5:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, a learned Muslim explorer, traveled throughout Africa and Southeast Asia for thirty years and documented his experiences, providing an invaluable record of the Muslim world in the 14th century. [4:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Samuel De Champlain
Learn about the life and explorations of Samuel de Champlain, about his travels through the region that became Canada, and about the French colonies he established. [4:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Rene Robert Cavelier De La Salle
Learn about French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle. He established Fort Frontenac on the Great Lakes. He then traveled across the Great Lakes and explored the length of the Mississippi River, establishing Louisiana Territory at...
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Zheng He
Listen to an account of what little is known about Chinese explorer Zheng He. Under instructions from the Emperor, he built a fleet of 317 ships and began the first of seven voyages. He visited over thirty countries and was responsible...
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Marco Polo
Learn about the life of Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer who traveled 6,000 miles from Venice in the 13th century, to meet Kublai Khan in Asia, where no European had ever journeyed. The trip lasted twenty-four years. Later, his memories...
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: John Cabot
Examines the Italian explorer John Cabot. He is believed to be the first European to set foot on mainland North America, landing in Newfoundland. His voyages to the new land were financed by King Henry VII of England. [4:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Francisco Vazquez De Coronado
Learn about the life of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, a Spanish explorer who traveled through the American Southwest and was the first European to reach the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. [4:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Juan Ponce De Leon
Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who is commonly thought to have been on a search for the fountain of youth. He is remembered for colonizing the Caribbean, and for discovering Florida and trying to establish a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Discovering Senses (A Sixth Sense)
A set of activities and a video on the senses. The activities have students explore the senses of taste, touch, smell, and sound. The video looks at the platypus's unique sense of electroreception which allows it to read electrical...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Raising Monarch Butterflies
A set of activities and a video that look at the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and at its migration to Mexico. The activities include raising butterflies, tagging them, and creating a butterfly garden. [1:42]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Mimic in the Grass
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about cheetahs and other animals, and how they protect themselves through mimicry. The storyline has a baby cheetah being catnapped by a fashion designer. It escapes by imitating a honey...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Kickin' It With the Roos
This episode of the Kratt brothers has them interacting with kangaroos after a joey steals their car keys. They learn about the differences between humans and kangaroos, and discover how powerful kangaroo feet are and the role they play...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Koala Balloon
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about how animals adapt to their environment in order to survive. The storyline has them visiting the Australian Outback to help a young koala return to its eucalyptus forest home. They...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Caracal Minton
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about the caracal and the serval, wild cats that lives on the African Savannah. The storyline has the team working to retrieve a birdie that was stolen by a caracal during a game of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Do the Lizard Walk
A set of activities and a video on lizards. The activities have students use electrostatic attraction to mimic a gecko's grip, use capillary action to try to drink like a thorny devil, use camouflage to blend in like a chameleon, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who is recognized as the first person to understand that the new land was not Asia. He did this by applying his cartography skills and mapping the stars he saw in the Southern Hemisphere. He is...
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Pbs Learning Media: World Explorers: Hernando De Soto
Hernando De Soto was a Spanish conquistador who mercilessly exploited the native peoples in the new world, enslaving them, killing them, and plundering their gold and silver. His actions made Spain a wealthy country and helped to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Cryosphere: Antarctica
Learn about the different features of snow and ice in Antarctica using satellite imagery in this video segment adapted from NASA. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [2:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Cryosphere: The Arctic
In this video segment adapted from NASA, students will take a tour of the cryosphere in North America and the Arctic using satellite imagery. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [3:59]