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Pbs Learning Media: Galileo's Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
The invention of the telescope helped change our understanding of the universe. This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at Galileo's contribution to this technology. [1:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: El Nino

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center details some of El Nino's far-reaching effects on both marine life and humans. [2:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Shark Attack! The Hunt

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module from the NOVA: "Shark Attack!" web site details the six senses that sharks use to find and capture their prey.
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Pbs Learning Media: Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels

For Students 9th - 10th
Martin Hoffert, professor of physics at New York University, discusses global warming and alternative energies in this interview from the NOVA/FRONTLINE: "What's Up with the Weather?"
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: The Fourteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
The background essay provided in this lesson plan on the later ramifications of the 14th Amendment explains the Congressional legislation of all types during Reconstruction. Click on the 'View' button to read the Amendment.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of Technology: Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of the automobile and the development of mass production. [4:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Organic Farming: Conserving Top Soil

For Students 9th - 10th
Against the backdrop of the devastating 1930's Dust Bowl, this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles an organic farmer and the techniques he uses to conserve topsoil.
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Pbs Learning Media: Phases of the Moon

For Students Pre-K - 1st
When we look up at the night sky, why do we see the Moon's appearance changing over time from a full sphere to a crescent to nothing at all? Find the answers in this interactive resource adapted from the National Air and Space Museum.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Gong Lum v Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
The Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: El Nino's Influence on Hurricane Formation

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains how and where hurricanes develop. Learn how El Nino events alter the course of atmospheric circulation. Includes background reading material and discussion...
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Pbs Learning Media: Meteor Showers

For Students 3rd - 8th
This video segment adapted from NASA uses animation to illustrate the properties of meteor showers and comets. Included is are visualizations of a comet's tail and of Earth passing through a debris stream left behind by meteoroids.
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Pbs Learning Media: Global Trends Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive quiz from NOVA, take the Environmental Challenge and test your knowledge of human impact on the world's natural resources and climate.
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Pbs Learning Media: Segregation Ordinances: Birmingham, Al

For Students 9th - 10th
This document from 1951 spells out Birmingham's segregation ordinances, the laws requiring the separation of the races.
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Pbs Learning Media: Decomposers

For Students 9th - 10th
Without the work of decomposers, living organisms would eventually use up all the raw materials in the environment, and dead organisms and wastes would pile up. This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" describes the role of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Why Doesn't the Moon Fall Down?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this animated video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Doris Daou explains how the forces of speed and gravity keep the moon in a constant orbit around Earth. [1:36]
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Pbs Learning Media: How Hurricanes Form

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.