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Featured Resource  American Experience Teacher Page
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The American Experience teachers area offers over 1500 features from more than 110 American Experience websites that include timelines, primary sources, teacher guides, maps, galleries, interactives, video, and more. 
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Interactive Chuck Vanderchuck's New Season
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
In this web series, Chuck Vanderchuck starts season two off by exploring the world of hip hop music. The site offers great videos for explaining different types of musical genres, interactives that test students' knowledge of musical history, and much more.
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Video Women's History Month: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor talks about being the first woman on the Supreme Court and her impact on women's rights.
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Video
Women's History Month: The Equal Rights Amendment
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
On this episode of To The Contrary, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) talks about what she and other women's rights advocates are doing to guarantee women equal protection under the U.S. Constitution.
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Video How Do Plants get Energy?
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
This video segment from NOVA explores the history of plant biology and sheds light into our present-day understanding of photosynthesis.
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NOVA: Power Surge
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Can emerging technology defeat global warming? From solar panel factories in China to carbon capture and storage facilities to massive wind and solar installations, NOVA reveals the surprising technologies that may turn the clock on climate change. Are we finally on the brink of a green-energy power surge?
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Video, Interactives, Documents
Postcards from Buster
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Postcards from Buster has new online resources, an updated website, new teacher guides, games, and more. These resources are specifically designed for elementary students, and work side-by-side with the episodes that are all available online.
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Video
American Masters: Harper Lee
Grade Range 6-8, 9-12
One of the best selling books of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird is the first and only novel by Harper Lee. Watch these videos and outtakes for the upcoming documentary on Harper Lee that will help bring insight into one of the most used novels in American classrooms.
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Register today for these ICN sessions, at no charge to you or your school, to network your students with other learners throughout the state.
Can't make it to any of these sessions? Take a look at IPTV's ICN events calendar to schedule your next opportunity.
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Video
Time Team America: Fort James, South Dakota
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
In 1865, a unit of cavalry soldiers was sent west to keep peace between incoming settlers and the Sioux Indians. The soldier built Fort James. This video explores how archeologists are uncovering new research and historical data.
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Video
Nature Life Cycle
Grade Range: PreK-2
With this video from Dinosaur Train, your students will examine the life cycle of flowers and understand that in nature everything changes.
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Interactive
Will Coastal Cities Be Under Water? There's a Map for That
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Will coastal cities be flooded by 2020? By 2050? As many as 3.7 million U.S. residents in 2,150 coastal areas could be battered by damaging floods caused by global warming-induced storm surges. Check out this interactive map from PBS NewsHour.
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Video
Super Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
We all know the Mario Brothers, but have you ever stepped back and tried looking at those games from a fresh perspective? They're bananas! There are armored turtles who stand on their hind legs and steal princesses! There are bullets with faces. We make a case for Mario's inclusion into a canon of art wider than "Video Game." Idea Channel examines Super Mario Brothers in a new light: as a surrealist work of art.
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