In this video segment from NatureScene, discover some reptiles in the swamp forest ecosystem at Congaree Swamp National Park.

This interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center challenges you to plan, measure, and calculate the correct amount of roofing material needed to reroof a house.

In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, meet Sandra Bustamante, a university research assistant who started her career with a biotechnology certificate and is now using nanotechnology—rather than needles—to deliver vaccines.

A study of the resettlement of Japanese Americans after WWII and the ongoing hardships and discrimination they experienced in the postwar years. This project was made possible through generous support from the National Parks Service Japanese American Confinement Sites program.

This video segment from Kentucky Life describes how scientists control pollination of one of the few remaining American chestnut trees to develop blight resistant trees.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, Jackie and Inez figure out how to break an Electro-Root into 2/5, one of the ingredients for the antidote to MotherboardŒë_í_Œ_ virus.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, Matt and Digit divide up the healing stone and discover equivalent fractions.

In this two̢ hour program, Jean Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Adventures team visit the Amazon River Basin. The mighty Amazon River flows through the world̢ĺŰĺŞs largest tropical rainforest, creating the most biodiverse area on the planet. Twenty̢ five years ago, Jean Michel explored this fabled region with his father, Jacques Cousteau. Since then, an area the size of Texas has been deforested. From this region of urgency and conflict - where human enterprise and expansion not only compromise the health and ecology of the river and rainforest basin, but also truly inflict consequences on a global scale - come new beacons of hope and sustainability.€âĺ_n acest program de douĚăĺÄ ore, Jean Michel Cousteau €_ĺŮi echipa Ocean Aventurile viziteazĚăĺÄ bazinul r€âč÷ului Amazon. Puternicul Amazon curge prin cea mai mare pĚăĺÄdure tropicalĚăĺÄ din lume, cre€âč÷nd cea mai mare zona de biodiversitate de pe planetĚăĺÄ. Cu douazeci €ÎĺŞi cinci de ani €â_n urmĚăĺÄ, Jean-Michel a explorat aceastĚăĺÄ regiune fabuloasĚăĺÄ cu tatĚăĺÄl sĚăĺÄu, Jacques Cousteau. De atunci, o zona de marimea Texasului a fost defri€_ĺŮatĚăĺÄ.

In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Frank Dukes describes his role in the 1962 boycott of discriminatory stores and businesses.

Segment sounds, and review long "a" and contractions with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Trinette Carruthers.

Learn about the different combinations of beats that produce endless varieties of rhythms.

That Jim Crow was a tremendously important period in United States history is undisputable. Less obvious is how to properly address the violence, politics, and complexities that mark the era. This site looks at the century of segregation following the Civil War (1863-1954). Jim Crow, a name taken from a popular 19th-century minstrel song, came to personify government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the U.S. This website describes pivotal developments during that time дус the Emancipation Proclamation, the Compromise of 1877, the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and others.

In this video segment adapted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a team from the Mechanical Engineering Department studies snail movement for inspiration that may lead to new forms of robotic locomotion.

Featuring slow-motion footage of insects in flight, this video adapted from NOVA explores the engineering challenge of designing a robotic aerial vehicle that flies like a bug.

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K presents the types of rocks, how they are formed, what they are made of and how they are classified.

This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service profiles rocky coast environments and describes how various geologic features form.

Roger Abrahamson demonstrates his craft to youth. Abrahamson is a traditional bowl turner who uses the medieval technology of a spring pole lathe and hand-forged tools to create Norwegian ale vessels.

A lesson plan for grades 5-12 is included as a gallery asset and in the support materials.

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In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, meet researchers who are studying obesity and trying to understand the role that hormones and genetics can play in regulating appetite.

In this video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, learn how plotting the changes in an object's position on a graph can provide information about the object's motion.

Watch cast members from the National Theater's production of Romeo and Juliet attempt to summarize the play in 60-seconds! Use this video as a challenge to students to create their own version that covers the plot of the play in one minute.