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Curated OER

The Elements of a Community--Who Belongs, Who Decides?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the elements of a community. They watch a video excerpt, complete a class web diagram, answer discussion questions, and describe the controversy from the video.
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Curated OER

Can You Stretch the Truth?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners study folk tales. They write a class folk tale and then one of their own using a famous character or known celebrity as their main character. They put on a class play of one of the student's folk tales.
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Curated OER

4 Different Ways to View Our City

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders make magnificent abstract paintings based upon their realistic photographs.
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Curated OER

Great American Families

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders wrote essays, interviewed family members, took photos of their activities, and tape recorded narration to accompany the photos.
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Curated OER

Chronology: They Time of My Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy. They compare and constrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.
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Curated OER

Sleuth Rays

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students conduct a close examination of the atom's electrons, and discover how to theorize the energy levels, observe the brightness of light, classify colors, and measure temperature.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everglades

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from WILD TV, a scientist in the Florida Everglades talks about her research on the pig frog. [6:25]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Explorers of Yesterday and Today

For Students 9th - 10th
Explorer Tom Murphy braves a ground blizzard during a winter night in Yellowstone as seen in this video segment from Nature.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cats

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, learn about cats. Consider the possibility that the cat may become the number one choice for pet owners.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: City Parrots

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about wild parrots that breed and nest in Brooklyn. [5:00]
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting the Dust Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th
The Dust Bowl and resulting western migration that occurred in the 1930s is explored in this video [5:44] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. The agricultural devastation and ensuing migration...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from ZOOM compares and contrasts the habitat and life forms found in Death Valley with those found in the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. [3:46]