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Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom :Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a wealth of information on Gardner's theory of multiple inteligences. It discusses what it consists of, the difference between it and the traditional definition of intelligence, how it has developed since its...
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Pbs: Jazz and Math: The Fibonacci Keyboard

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teach a lesson about the piano keyboard using the Fibonacci Sequence. Explore with your students the various relationships the Fibonacci Sequence has with music.
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Pbs: Jazz Is About Freedom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One of the objectives in this lesson plan focus on how jazz contributed to the political awareness of the American public concerning lynching. Using Billie Holiday's anti-lynching song Strange Fruit, students will learn about lynching...
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Pbs: Jazz Is About Collaboration: Jim Crow Laws: Segregation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Engage your young scholars in discussion about segregation and the Jim Crow laws with this in-depth lesson plan. Using jazz music, you will contrast the ways in which America's most significant contribution to the arts depended on...
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Pbs: Jazz Music and the Crisis Over School Desegregation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working in cooperative groups, your students will learn how jazz musicians expressed the Civil Rights era in their music. This lesson focuses on the Civil Rights movement in Little Rock, Arkansas. Also, they will learn to about the...
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Pbs: Transcending Poetry, Jazz, Rap & Hip Hop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The objectives in this lesson will have students describing the characteristics of poetry, jazz, rap and hip hop music. Students will also analyze how poetry, jazz, hip hop and poetry reflect the culture of the time.
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Pbs: Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson deals primarily with the number of rhythmic combinations that can be found in a four beat measure of music. Students will learn through trial and error and derive a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible...
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Pbs: Independent Lens: Refugee

For Students 9th - 10th
Documentary film about three Cambodian Americans who, on a voyage of discovery, return to Cambodia after living as refugees in the United States for twenty years. The film explores the ways in which their personal stories reflect...
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Pbs News Hour Extra for Students and Teachers

For Students 9th - 10th
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer offers specialized news resources for students and teachers. Content includes background information for the top stories of the week, full multimedia packages (video, audio, graphics, and text) which explore...
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Pbs: News Hour Extra

For Students 9th - 10th
Current US and world news, as well as news in the areas of science, economics, health, and the arts. Also features editorials and essays written by students around the world on events in the news.
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Pbs: Nova: Making Stuff: Stronger

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The first in a four-part PBS series, hour-long video defines "strength" of materials, with examples ranging from steel cables to mollusk shells. Insight from research and experts offers a look into the process of "re-engineering"...
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Pbs: History Detectives: Investigations: Black Star Line [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS had a series called "History Detectives." The video is no longer available for this episode, but this transcript of the video is. Read about the Black Star Line, envisioned by Marcus Garvey as a shipping company in which African...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Launch It (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to design an air-powered rocket to take you to the moon that can hit a distant target. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses...
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Pbs Character Above All: Richard M. Nixon

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt from Tom Wicker's essay on Richard M. Nixon. The writing delves deep into Nixon's psyche, possibly giving reasons for his actions before and during the Watergate crisis. Analyzes Nixon's political philosophy and his actions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Discontent and Transformation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on the discontent of housewives in the 1950's and the Southern Bell lawsuit for discrimination of women in the workplace. It includes a PDF lesson plan and two video clips.
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Pbs Learning Media: Era and Political Backlash

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students analyze the text of the Equal Rights Amendment, trace the amendment process taken to get the ERA passed, analyze the reasons for opposition to ERA, and the methods used to stop its ratification. Then they will...
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Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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Pbs Learning Media: You Decide: The Women's Movement? | a Biography of America

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive from A Biography of America, offer students the opportunity to join in a debate on whether the Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the improvement of the lives of women in the United States. Students...
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Pbs: Learning Media: Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students view eleven different documents arguing both for and against women's right to vote. They must click and drag them in the order that they were created. As they work, they need to make a list of the arguments...
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Pbs Learning Media: Character Study: Scout Finch

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the character of Scout Finch from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It includes excerpts from the American Masters documentary entitled Harper Lee: Hey, Boo, discussion questions, teaching tips, and...
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Art21: Ann Hamilton

For Students 9th - 10th
Hamilton's art installations often combine soundtracks with cloth, filmed footage, organic materials, and objects. She is also interested in verbal and written language and works with photographs and performance.
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Art21: Barbara Kruger

For Students 9th - 10th
Much of Kruger's art questions the viewer about feminism, consumerism, and desire. Her trademark black text on a red background has been seen around the world and can still be recognized today.
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Art21: Bruce Nauman

For Students 9th - 10th
Profile of the artist Bruce Nauman with links to art work, videos clips, and interviews.
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Art21: Jenny Holzer

For Students 9th - 10th
This look at art in the 21st century focuses on artist Jenny Holzer. Her combination of language, poetry, and projection creates unique installations.