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Interactive
Mapping the Brain
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Use this atlas to understand the relationship between brain anatomy and function, and use some of the same imaging techniques neuroscientists use to map the brain.
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Lesson Plan
Can the Media Influence the Fairness of Criminal Trials? Grade Range: 9-12
In this lesson, students will investigate how press coverage of criminal trials has the potential to influence public opinion and the rights of the accused. Using a video case study of a trial in the Philippines, the class will first discuss how a man was characterized in the media following his arrest, and then analyze the coverage of the trial and verdict.
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Video/Interactive
Blues
Grade Range: 3-5
In this video interactive from PBS LearningMedia, understand the roots of blues music; learn about the musical instruments typically used in playing blues; and see how different rhythms, lyrics, and note patterns combine in this music genre.
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Activities
Design Squad Nation Hands-on Activities
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
These activities are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
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Video
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Having recently moved to Cincinnati with her family, Harriet Beecher Stowe crossed over into the slave state of Kentucky in 1832 and happened upon a slave auction. Witnessing a mother and child separated and sold separately would affect her forever.
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Interactive
Exploring Ancient Egypt
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Want to walk around the Sphinx? Clamber inside the Great Pyramid of Giza and seek out the pharaoh's burial chamber? Visit the magnificent tombs and temples of ancient Thebes? In this multi-layered, highly visual interactive, view 360� panoramas, "walkaround" photos, and other breathtaking imagery shot throughout the Giza Plateau and ancient Thebes.
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Lesson Plan
Creating Place-based Poems Grade Range: 9-12
In this lesson, students will walk step-by-step through the process of creating place-based poems. They will first practice identifying sights, sounds and other sensory details presented in a video clip about a unique cemetery in Mexico. Students will also investigate how this cemetery inspired the content of two poems by Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes.
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Video
A Bat in the Brownies
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Watch as adventure begins when a little brown bat crash lands into a plate of the Wild Kratts' brownies. The gang learns how bats are nothing to be afraid of, and they gain a new appreciation for bat ecology, predators, insects and echolocation.
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Video
Twin Prime Conjecture
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Prime numbers bear a mystery. Why do primes tend to pair up? Five and seven, for example, are prime, as are 41 and 43, and 101 and 103. For millennia, mathematicians have wondered: Does this continue no matter how high one counts? As this video and its original song reveal, a mathematician has just given us an answer to this age-old enigma.
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Interactive
Meet the Candidates
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Meet this year's presidential candidates, and help students identify the duties of the U.S. president and begin to think critically about the skills necessary to be a good president.
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