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Pbs Learning Media: Illegal in Beijing

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, view a city area where illegal migrants from rural China live and work. [2:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Anti Immigrant Sentiment

For Students 9th - 10th
Botswanans express some of their attitudes toward the influx of Zimbabwean migrants in this Wide Angle video segment.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Rule of Law

For Students 9th - 10th
China's recent adoption of a legal system based on the rule of law is the focus of this video from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Suicide Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
Mohanned Abu Tayyoun describes the events that occurred on the day of his intended suicide bombing in this video segment from Wide Angle.
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Pbs Learning Media: Legal System Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an overview of the expansion of the legal system in China as market forces lead to new circumstances requiring legal solutions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Trust in the Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Citizen complaints demonstrate that China's legal system has not yet fully gained the people's trust in this Wide Angle video.
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Pbs Learning Media: Coin Tossing

For Students 9th - 10th
Coin Tossing shows a person flipping a coin and asks the student to describe coin-flipping as a decision making option.
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Pbs Learning Media: Innocence

For Students 9th - 10th
Innocence prompts students to write about the differences, if they think there are any, between innocence and goodness.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mug for the Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to describe the man from the clip for a police sketch artist because he had just stolen their purse/wallet.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nose Ring

For Students 9th - 10th
Video shows tribal people removing their nose ring and prompts students to think about fads and how they know where the line is between fads that are fun and those that are dangerous.
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Pbs Learning Media: Transportation

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you think that modern transportation limits our ability to see and/or enjoy what the first settlers saw and did?
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Pbs Learning Media: Underwater

For Students 9th - 10th
Explain which fish you would want to be in this school and why. [0:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: War

For Students 9th - 10th
Write a short essay on when and under what circumstances war is justified.
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Gates: Soft Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Soft Skills highlights the skills employees need to be successful. These include communication, eye contact, listening, teamwork, positive attitude, proper handshake, professional appearance and respect. Soft skills are the abilities to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Bethlehem Steel History

For Students 9th - 10th
This video provides a glimpse inside what the steel industry has meant to its surrounding areas. Bethlehem Steel, located in Lehigh Valley, provided jobs to people at its height and allowed for the Valley's growth and expansion.
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Pbs Learning Media: Alternative Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain what needs to be considered if alternative energy sources are to be used. [0:32]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bird Flu

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how chickens might be involved in a potential bird flu outbreak.
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Pbs Learning Media: Blast Off

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to describe what these astronauts should investigate on a mission in space.
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Pbs Learning Media: Like Mother Like Son

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain some of the inherited characteristics found in particular pairs of animals.
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Pbs Learning Media: Squid a Mollusk

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain the characteristics that place a mollusk is in the phylum mollusca.
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Pbs Learning Media: Reading a Thermometer

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns how to read a thermometer as they try to keep their chocolate sculpture from melting.
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Pbs Learning Media: Liberty Lands

For Students 6th - 8th
In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands.
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Pbs Learning Media: Solar House

For Students 9th - 10th
In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an electrical engineer in Virginia and his 13-year-old son explain how they produce electricity in their home. [3:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Consistent Supervision and Ongoing Evaluation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Many districts are moving to a model in which skilled principal supervisors engage often with principals in their schools. These regular visits, coupled with evaluation based on rubrics, provide ongoing guidance to improve practice. This...