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Art21: Susan Rothenberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Susan Rothenberg is most well known for her minimalist horse paintings. PBS has included her in their series art:21 and here on the website you can see her work, read interviews, watch video clips, and read her biography.
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Art21: William Wegman

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a biography of the artist and links to art work, video clips and interviews. On this page there are also links to lesson plans and other artist pages.
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Pbs Learning Media

For Teachers K - 1st
PBS's source for teachers, covering all subject areas. This is a site that has so much wonderful information as well as interactive activities that you are sure to find something that would be useful in your classroom.
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Pbs Learning Media: Finch Beak Data Sheet [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This graphic from Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches by Peter Grant presents data from the Galapagos Islands, showing that a severe drought put selective pressure on the population of Darwin's finches and resulted in a change in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pourquoi Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Jakers! features a storyteller who tells a Pourquoi story about Anansi, the spider, a popular character in African folklore.
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Pbs Learning Media: Bee Ing in a Swarm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about bees, their habitat and how to interact with a swarm in this Wild TV video segment.
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Pbs Learning Media: Backyard Bugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics. [2:48]
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Pbs Learning Media: Cloud Age Two

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, Cloud, a two-year-old horse, interacts with his family in the wild. [3:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Colony Collapse Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, scientists work to discover why bees are disappearing. [2:39]
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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 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.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fire Cloud

For Students 9th - 10th
Firefighters fight a raging fire on a wild horse range in Montana in this video segment from Nature.
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Pbs Learning Media: Cloud Foal

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, experience life in the wild for Cloud, a newborn colt.
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Pbs Learning Media: Santiago and Morris

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from WILD TV, Santiago, a troubled youth, and Linda, a motor vehicle accident victim, discuss how Morris, a therapy dog, has helped them.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Sled Dogs of the Arctic Circle

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, learn about the role of dogs in the Inuit culture.
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Pbs Learning Media: Squirrel Rehabilitation

For Students 3rd - 8th
This video segment from WILD TV features a family that rescues and releases squirrels to their natural habitat. [4:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bamboo Mountain

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, researchers study pandas in an effort to halt their decline in population. [5:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: Peacock

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This Nature video segment features the beautiful bird known for its iridescent tail, the peacock.
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Pbs Learning Media: The World of Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from Nature, Scientists travel to the top of Mount Kilauea to collect molten lava samples for testing.
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Pbs Learning Media: Stomp

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, performers from STOMP! illustrate patterns using inventive and exciting rhythmic melodies.
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Pbs Learning Media: Using Data Clusters to Find Hacker

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad searches for Hacker's castle based on a survey of where town residents have last seen him in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Digit in Pursuit

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad tracks Digit's position in time and then studies graphs to figure out what Hacker is scheming in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Raising the Bar

For Students 3rd - 8th
Harry and Bianca's new boss at a concession stand uses bar graphs to keep records of their refreshment sales in this video from Cyberchase.
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Pbs Learning Media: Restocking Shoes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca uses data on past shoe sales to help her decide what quantities of each size she should order in the next shipment.