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Interactive
Interactive Spelling Bee
Grade Range: K-2, 3-4, 6-8
In this interactive, students will listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story.
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Audio
Climate Change and Sandy Grades 6-8, 9-12
Could climate change be contributing to extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy? Jennifer Francis, a climatologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, believes that may be the case. In fact, her research shows that Arctic warming may have contributed to many of the extreme weather events of the past few years.
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Interactive
Interactive Dust Bowl
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Have your students embark on an experience that will show what life was like on the southern Great Plains during the Dust Bowl. On the journey students will learn about the changing market and weather conditions and be asked to make decisions about whether to play it safe and keep a farm the same size or expand it for a greater profit.
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Lesson Plan/Video
Using Recipes to Add Fractions
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
While doubling a cupcake recipe, students practice three ways of doubling fractions using representations, addition, and multiplication. They also convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
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Online Resource
PBS TeacherLine Spring Courses
Professional Development
Start the new year off right, and invigorate your career. These popular PBS TeacherLine courses are a powerful way to improve your instructional skills, master new content, and expand your professional credentials.
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Videos
The Works of William Shakespeare
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Here are over 25 exclusive videos clips of the Royal Shakespeare Company in action performing the Bard's plays. They are presented here with short synopses, approximate modern-day ratings, fictional quotes, and the posters that Elizabethan theater owners would have made if they'd had access to modern print technology.
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Video
Stronger Hurricanes
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Are hurricanes becoming more intense? As M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel relates in this video, over the past half century the average strength and duration of hurricanes in the tropical regions of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has doubled.
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Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Learn about the Pythagorean theorem and use it to calculate the length of the sides of right triangles.
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Interactive
Lewis & Clark's Expedition to the Complex West
Grade Range: 9-12
This activity can be used as an introduction or for a closer study of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Students will learn that the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803 and President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore west of the Mississippi River in 1804, though the land was already inhabited and politically complicated.
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Interactive
Addition Blocks
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Destroy the falling target blocks by forming sums and clicking on adjacent number blocks. The game features multiple speeds and difficulties, an award system, and unlockable bonus blocks.
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