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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Speech Pathologist
This Career Clip features Carrie Kane, Speech Pathologist at Good Shepherd in Allentown, PA. She uses technology in many ways to help those that are having problems with speech. Her best career advice came from a supervisor and that she...
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Team Leader
This Career Clip features Karen Paulus, Team Leader of the Administrative Team at Nestle. She is responsible for making sure that security and procedures are handled properly and that the staff around her is aware of any requirements or...
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Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Transportation Manager
This Career Clip features Paul Davis, Group Transportation Manager with Nestle Private Fleet Nationally. His best career advice was to be positive and to be persistent. Be persistent at what you want to do, what you want to achieve and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Health
Students are asked to explain how advances in technology have affected people's health.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Group of 20 Reacts to Global Economic Crisis
For this lesson, students will explore how a global economic crisis affects nations differently depending on their circumstances. They will also get to know the Group of 20 and how they are addressing the economic crisis of 2009.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Financial Crisis
In this lesson, students will explore what GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and GDP growth mean, how stock and housing bubbles develop, and the causes and consequences of a housing market crisis. The lesson investigation is supported by news...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Undercutting Unemployment
Unemployment is a complex subject. This comprehensive set of lesson plans and news reports will help students understand the many economic and political forces that impact on the unemployment rate, and to critically analyze differences...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: The Whole World Is Watching: Iran, 2009
A complete lesson plan about the current changes going on within Iran and how it relates to the United States. (June 24, 2009)
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Pbs News Hour: Constitutional Amendments and Gay Marriage
In this lesson, students examine and debate the issue of same sex marriage by studying background information, news articles, legal arguments and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They then draft an amendment of their own to...
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Pbs: News Hour Extra: Teachers: Science
Excellent teacher resources for current events in the world of science. Sift through many thorough and engaging lesson plans. Lessons are accompanied by videos or other supplemental documentation.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: What Do Inquiry Based Lesson Plans Look Like?
Inquiry-based lesson plans are usually referred to as "facilitation plans," to help teachers remember their role as facilitator of learning, rather than fount of all wisdom. The notion also helps teachers structure lessons more loosely...
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Pbs Learning Media: Small Business
This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda's new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Solutions
Amy Smith is an engineer who designs simple and inexpensive solutions to real-world problems. This video produced for Teachers' Domain features her innovative design for testing the safety of drinking water in the developing world.
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Pbs Learning Media: Taking a Stand
This teacher lesson has the students explore discrimination and segregation and its impact on the Civil Rights movement. It begins by having the children look at rules and laws in society and then examine historical examples of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal Empowerment
Schools will improve when principals are given the autonomy to make decisions that best solve their school-based problems. Coupled with this autonomy is the accountability to produce significant improvement. The upper level bureaucracy...
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal as Instructional Leader
The key role of the principal is instructional leader. However, there are many pressures that prevent principals from getting into classrooms to help teachers build their instructional capacity. The traditional time-consuming observation...
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Pbs Learning Media: Ongoing Support
Principals need support, not only in their early years, but throughout their careers. Support and encouragement can come from networks of principals who meet regularly to share problems and solutions and reflect on their practice....
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Pbs Learning Media: Teacher Leaders and Teacher Teams
Leadership preparation begins with early and meaningful opportunities for teachers to lead. The traditional span of control in schools with one principal supervising scores of teachers is outdated and no longer functional. Distributed...
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Pbs Kids: Super Why: Princess Presto Spectacular Sounds Bingo
In this bingo game, listen for the sounds of the letters and click on the correct letter; when you have completed all the letters, a picture is revealed.
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Pbs Kids: Oh Noah! Games in Videos: Cowboys and Librarians
Watch what happens when Noah heads to the library but ends up on a ranch; learn the Spanish words for kitchen appliances and shapes.
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Pbs Kids: Oh Noah! Games in Videos: Breaking the Ice
See what happens when Noah mistakenly heads off to the arctic to find a polar bear and learn the Spanish words for drinks, and warm clothes.
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Pbs Kids: Oh Noah! Games in Videos: I Say Tomato
See what happens when Noah confuses the Spanish words for newspaper and tomato, and learn the Spanish words for items in a purse and vegetables.
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Pbs Kids: Oh Noah!: Games in Videos: Hammer Time!
Watch the video to see what happens when Noah thinks the Spanish word for hammer means dog and learn the Spanish words for a variety of tools.
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Pbs Kids: Oh Noah!: Games in Videos: A Whale Tale
Find out how Noah ends up in the mouth of a whale, and learn the Spanish words for some sea creatures and some sea trash.