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Nova: Intelligent Design on Trial: Darwin's Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource examines the prophetic ideas of Charles Darwin. The interactive activity explores evolution, embryology, and the evolution of humans. The activity consists of a printable version, interactive version, and sources for the...
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Nova: Booming Sands

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS site takes a look into a mysterious phenomena as to why and how certain sand dunes produce mysterious noises. Contains a link to watch a broadcast segment of an expedition into the desert as well as a recipe for noisy sands.
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Nova: Anatomy of the Rings

For Students 9th - 10th
Thanks to the Cassini spacecraft, you can view numerous pictures of Saturn's rings. There are also answers to eleven different questions about the rings.
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Nova: Mystery of the Megaflood

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site provides geologic evidence for one of the world's largest prehistoric floods. Nova's interactive map has numerous pictures of the Scabland's geologic features formed when Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam gave way and...
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Nova: Forgotten Genius: Nature?s Pharmacy

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial discusses species that have chemical compounds to fight human illnesses. Some topics include "penicillium" mold, cinchona tree, and "streptomyces" bacteria. The activity consists of a printable version and interactive version.
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Pbs Nova: First Flower: China, Mother of Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial explores the native Chinese flowering plant species. Some topics include rock's peony, dove tree, and fortune's rhododendron. The activity consists of a printable version and ian nteractive version.
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Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: The Fenn Cache

For Students 9th - 10th
A close-up look at ten beautiful Clovis points made from several different materials found in what is known as the Fenn Cache.
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Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: Stone Age Tool Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
Try your hand at identifying the uses of several stone age tools with this game from NOVA. Find out about each one and marvel at the specialization the Paleoindian was capable of.
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Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: Before Clovis

For Students 9th - 10th
A terrific map from NOVA showing pre-Clovis sites in North America. The key tells where the site is, what was found there, and when Paleoindians inhabited the site.
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Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: End of the Big Beasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Three opposing views about the disappearance of the "megafauna" in North America. What really happened to the wooly mammoth, mastadon, saber-toothed tiger, among other animals?
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Nova Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides educators with information, lesson plans, current news, and other topics that assist with teaching.
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Pbs Nova: What Is Evo Devo?

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists can still be surprised! The genetic ingredients that assemble us are similar to those that assemble a fly. NOVA explains the emerging science of evolution developmental biology. This is the science that studies genes at the...
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Pbs: American Experience: Panama Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
Regarded as one of the seven wonders of the modern world, the Panama Canal opened for business on August 15, 1914. America's ingenuity and innovation had triumphed over insurmountable odds. PBS brings us this incredible story via online...
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Pbs American Experience: Triangle Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Film and special features on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911. Features include a timeline of the deadliest workplace accidents, biographies of famous women of the time, and primary resources of the coverage of the fire. For...
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Pbs Frontline: The Persuaders

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The meaning of brand, the world of today's advertisers, and the concept of neuromarketing are some of the topics of this PBS Frontline program. You can watch the whole program, join the discussion, read about the shaping of new brands,...
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Skydive From the Stratosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation allows you to experience Joe Kittinger's famous 1960 skydiving feat. As you ascend the troposphere and stratosphere you can view changes in several atmospheric conditions. The challenge will be surviving the leap once you...
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Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Analyzing Your School?s Energy Consumption

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The resource is a lesson plan that compares a school's energy consumption with that of a LEED certified school. In addition, learners identify areas that are within the school's capacity of change and audit the school?s recycling...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Blimp Jet [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to add a jet-propulsion system such as a balloon to a Sky Glider blimp so it flies straight and far under its own power. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary....
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Paddle Power [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to design and build a paddle boat that moves across water using a rubber band as its power source. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity...
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Wnet: Thirteen: Savage Earth Online

For Students 6th - 8th
PBS produced "Savage Earth," a television series about volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Contains extensive information with great graphics.
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Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion to a four-part PBS series about Jim Crow has a timeline with links to significant events and people, video and audio clips from the series, and in-depth backgrounders on Jim Crow issues and impacts.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Savage Earth: Volcanoes Out of the Inferno

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS's The Savage Earth provides online learning associated with the series including vivid pictures, animations, and detailed information about volcanoes. Learn about the formation and causes of volcanoes as well as the characteristics...
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Wnet: Thirteen: Africa: Explore the Regions Rainforest

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore African rainforests at this richly illustrated and informative site from PBS. Learn about the people, economy, and countries of these densely forested zones.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Colonial House

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website for Colonial House, a televised experiment in historical reenactment, provides information and insight about what daily life, in 1628, must have been like for English settlers in early America. With video clips from the...