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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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Supporting New Principals in the Early Years

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The first year for a new principal can be a daunting and lonely job. Supporting new principals with strong induction programs, ongoing mentorships (possibly for several years), and forums which encourage principal interaction with...
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Special Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Multimedia collection of video, primary text documents and audio on Civil Rights, especially Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Hofmannopoly [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have access to a color printer then you can print and play Hofmannopoly! Assemble the game board according to the directions and grab a friend to play. You will be an art student traveling through the world of Hans Hofmann. Learn...
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Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
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Pbs: The Political Dr. Seuss

For Students 9th - 10th
Behind some of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters are messages of social and political context. Explained here in detail are some examples of these types of works along with a biography.
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A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Using your computer mouse you can simulate transforming, collisional, divergent and convergent plate boundaries. Descriptions of each plate boundary are also available.
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Wnet: Thirteen: New York: A Walk Around Brooklyn

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the web companion to a TV series of video walking tours of famous New York Neighborhoods. Take a virtual tour through the borough of Brooklyn, New York and see all the landmarks and treasures it is famous for. You can also read...