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Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
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Pbs Learning Media: Making a Difference in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using segments from the PBS program: Wide Angle, this high school lesson explores the history and complexity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and examines the roles individuals and organizations can play in promoting understanding and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Peep and the Big Wide World: Professional Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PEEP and the Big Wide World, the animated Emmy Award-winning series that teaches science and math to an early childhood audience, offers professional development videos hosted by and tailored to family child care educators and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Zora Neale Hurston Video: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

For Students K - 1st
Learn about Zora Neale Hurston with this video clip, printable biosketch reader, and support materials. About the Show: "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" is a PBS KIDS show based on the popular book series, "Ordinary People Change...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Treating Others Fairly Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week (February 15th), we are working on treating others fairly.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Celebrating Winter Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week (December 7th), celebrate winter.
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Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Play Your Way Back to School!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Play your way and choose activities, games, and videos to enjoy as you prepare to go back to school.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Play Your Way! Calendar

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The summer is full of possibilities and so is your child. Use this calendar to choose activities, games, and videos to enjoy.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Making Family Traditions Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these family traditions-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Friends & Neighbors Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these friends & neighbors-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Creating Routines Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these routines-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Back to School Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these back to school-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Creative Problem Solving Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week (January 4th), we are working on problem-solving.m
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: My Family and Me Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, celebrate what makes you and your family special!
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Pbs Nova: Pyrotechnically Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet chemistry professor Dr. John Conkling in this interview from the NOVA Web site and learn why fireworks are his passion.
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Measurement Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Animal Fun is here! In this week's adventure, Animal Measurement, children will explore measurement with the help of hermit crabs (investigating size correspondence by matching a hermit crab to its appropriate shell), beavers (visual...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Brown Bag Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
It's time for lunch! For this week-long adventure, children will explore numbers and counting in the context of healthy eating. They will learn about the five food groups and create a healthy lunch using foods from each food group. Each...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Measuring How Much Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Measuring fun is here! In this week's adventure, children will explore volume, capacity, and weight and learn new math vocabulary words as they practice measurement with real and virtual measuring tools. Each section of this weeklong...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Rainbow Math Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Red apples, orange candles, yellow stars, green frogs, and blue, indigo, and violet flowers-they all add up to Rainbow Math fun! During this adventure children learn the colors of the rainbow as they practice counting, adding and...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Assistants Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The animals need help! In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will take the role of Animal Assistants and use their spatial skills to help save the day. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Dog House Design Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Children will learn about and explore measurement to successfully design a dog house for his or her cutout paper dog. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or online game that encourages children to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Vocabulary Words: Graphic Organizer

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This graphic organizer can help students as they explore new vocabulary words. It offers a place for a dictionary definition, as well as a place to practice using the word in a sentence.
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lights, Camera, Action Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Let's take it from the top! This week's adventure, Operation: Lights, Camera, Action!, takes children to a movie set where they work behind-the-scenes and explore different kinds of jobs such as production assistant (keeps track of the...