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Pbs Learning Media: Global Warming: The Developing World

9th - 10th
Thanks to technology, the world is changing faster than ever before. Unfortunately, many of these changes are probably having a negative impact on the global climate. This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE takes a look at what...
Instructional Video
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Pbs Learning Media: Time for School: India : Neeraj

9th - 10th
In this media gallery, follow Neeraj, from Rajasthan, India over the course of 12 years as she struggles to gain an education. [3:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Time for School: Brazil: Jefferson

9th - 10th
Learn about the safe haven that school provides for the children of Brazil's shantytowns. [2:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Migrant Workers and Social Justice: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
History's largest ongoing migration is occurring in China. One out every ten Chinese is leaving the rural countryside for one of China's major cities. Despite their hard work, many of these peasants are finding their dreams for a better...
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Pbs Learning Media: Migrant Workers: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
There are strict laws in China, dating back to the Maoist era of the 1950s, that prevent Chinese citizens from the countryside from working in urban areas. Harsh conditions in China's rural countryside, however, have left many undeterred...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Value of a Girl: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
Learn about Santosh Kohli, a young woman from a traditional Indian family of modest means, as she gains self sufficiency and determination. [2:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Time for School: Afghanistan: Shugufa

9th - 10th
Visit Afghanistan to explore the home life of Shugufa, a young girl caught between the traditions of Afghani society and modernization. [2:48]
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Pbs Learning Media: Shugufa: Struggle to Learn: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
Follow Shugufa, a 13-year-old Afghani girl, and her female classmates' struggle to overcome their school's shortcomings and attain an education in the midst of increasing Taliban efforts to deny education to women. [3:25]
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Pbs Learning Media: Made in l.a.: Examine Labor Practices in the Garment Industry

9th - 10th
In this clip, a Mexican immigrant and garment worker talks about the working conditions in the garment factory. [2:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nyc Family's Struggle to Survive on a Fast Food Salary (2013)

9th - 10th
Between food, housing and baby supplies, Shenita Simon struggles each week to support her family of seven. The 25-year-old from New York makes $8 per hour and is one of the fast food workers nationwide advocating for higher wages. [8:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Judge and the General: Human Rights Abuses Around the World

9th - 10th
Chileans remember the plight of political prisoners who were "disappeared" during Pinochet's regime. Judge Juan Guzman talks about writing rejections of appeals to investigate the disappearances earlier in his career. Students should...
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Pbs Learning Media: Digital Activism: shayfeen.com Film Module

9th - 10th
This module examines the use of digital technology to further civic engagement in the face of repression. Shayfeen.com activists support the brave judges who step forward and ask for an investigation of election abuses. The women of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Security in the Central African Republic Crisis (2013)

9th - 10th
A story about twelve civilians killed in Central African Republic, a nation that fell into chaos. The United Nations vote on sending forces into the country, where 600 French soldiers had been dispatched. [12:03]
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Pbs Learning Media: Haiti: Relief Efforts Meet Staggering Obstacles

11th - 12th
Correspondent Martin Smith travels to Haiti to bear witness to this humanitarian crisis and the ill-coordinated relief efforts on the ground.
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Pbs Learning Media: Crisis in Sudan

9th - 10th
The NewsHour's Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on Sudan's humanitarian crisis, where drought and food shortages are contributing to violence, political instability and death. [6:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Water Pressures: Gender and Education

9th - 10th
Learn how water shortage in Rajasthan, India effects women specifically. [5:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Germany Phases Out Nuclear Power

9th - 10th
Learn about Germany's controversial decision to end its nuclear energy program. [4:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Compare and Contrast: Education in Japan and Kenya

9th - 10th
Economic factors greatly influence the quality of education. The educational systems of developing countries are often on a substandard level when compared to nations of economically advanced countries. View and compare the classrooms of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Going Home?: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
Explore the challenges Iraqi refugees face and the tough decisions they make to either stay in a host country or return home. [3:28]
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Pbs Learning Media: Coping With the Crisis: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
Gain insight into an Iraqi refugee's life in Jordan, as well as his life before leaving Iraq. The video explores how host countries Jordan and Syria are coping with the Iraqi refugee crisis and features an interview with Jordan's Queen...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
This video segment from the Wide Angle film "Iraqi Exodus" provides an overview of the Iraqi refugee crisis and challenges the refugees face. [2:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: Wide Angle

9th - 10th
Join hosts Aaron Brown and Gordon Lichfield (deputy editor of economist.com) discussing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and why it persists. [4:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hispaniola: An Island Divided

9th - 10th
Immediately following the devastating Haitian earthquake of January 2010, many Haitians sought refuge in the neighboring Dominican Republic (D.R.) but their arrival resulted in escalating tensions between the two nations. Despite...
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Pbs Learning Media: Us Transparency of Civilian Deaths From Drone Strikes? [2013]

9th - 10th
Two human rights advocacy groups published and presented a report on United States drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen to the public. [10:58]