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Building Simple Machines: Plant Quencher In this video segment from ZOOM, Jillian explains how her simple machine uses marbles, levers, flowing sand, and a spinning wheel to water a plant. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Building the Alaska Oil Pipeline This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of how environmentalists, Alaska Native peoples, and engineers concerned about the effects of permafrost challenged plans for the Alaska oil pipeline. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Building the Channel Tunnel How do you build a tunnel 32 miles long -- under water? This video segment adapted from Building Big, follows the construction of the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed "Chunnel"), the engineering wonder that connects England to France. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Building the Erie Canal In this video segment adapted from American Experience, learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, the biggest public works project of its time. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Burrowing Owl In this video segment from Outdoor Nevada, learn about burrowing owls, yearlong residents of open, dry grassland and desert habitats, and the only owls that nest underground and are active both day and night. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
The Business of Bioplastics This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Cleaner" and accompanying demonstration introduce students to the production and importance of bioplastics, or plastics made from plant or animal products. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Busterfield Library A-Z This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
Bus to the Burbs This video excerpt from La Plaza: "Bus to the Burbs" looks at METCO, a voluntary busing program in Boston. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Butterflies This video from Vegas PBS features colorful insects known as butterflies, and looks at the coloration, species, life cycle, and migration habits within their habitat. Accessibility features: Caption	K-8	Video
Calling him back from layoff, by Bob Hicok In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Bob Hicok reads his poem “Calling him back from layoff,” which describes the emotionally fraught phone conversation between a manager and a laid-off worker. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
The Camel Dances This video from Between the Lions, tells the story of a camel who decides to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
Can a Computer Fly an Airplane? This video excerpt from NOVA shows how the computer system on the A330 airplane can fly the plane safely without a human pilot. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist? Learn about one town's conflict over the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects, in this video segment from Greater Boston. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Can We Slow Aging? In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists discuss a family of genes called FOXO that can significantly extend life span in worms—and in humans. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Capturing Carbon In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic "tree" to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future In this video segment adapted from NOVA, find out how cars made of a material stronger than steel and half the weight can help combat climate change. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Careers in Plastics Learn about opportunities for working in the growing field of plastics, including the emerging area of "green" technologies, in this video segment adapted from Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Carnival Physics: Midway Games Follow Mary Jane and Eliza as they test and measure the best way to use a moving ball's energy to win at carnival games in this video from DragonflyTV. Accessibility features: Caption	5-8	Video
Carnivorous Plants of Texas In this video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, learn about carnivorous plants that act as both producers and consumers in an ecosystem. See sundews and blatterworts capture and digest insects. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
Carnivorous Plants of Cartwheel Bay In this video segment from NatureScene, explore Cartwheel Bay, a wetland in South Carolina, and learn about the variety of carnivorous plants native to this unique landform. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
A Case for the Separation of Powers This video segment adapted from American Experience introduces how John Adams called for the separation of powers in the Massachusetts Constitution into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Cathy Garner, Winter Unit In this video from SERVE, see how kindergarten teacher Cathy Garner introduces new vocabulary to her students through picture cards, storybook reading, and unscripted, rich conversation throughout the day. Accessibility features: Caption	K	Video
The Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" explores the changes in the U. S. financial market that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Cave Formation: Biogeochemical Cycles This video segment adapted from NOVA chronicles the discoveries that led to a radical new theory in which living organisms, not just geological processes, play an active role in cave formation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Cave Formation: Kane Cave This video segment adapted from NOVA describes a simple experiment that confirmed the idea that microbes can accelerate the biogeochemical process of cave formation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Caves: Extreme Conditions for Life This video segment adapted from NOVA raises the provocative idea that if life can exist in the most extreme environments on Earth — such as in dark, toxic caves — then perhaps living things can also survive in harsh environments on other planets. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption	6-12	Video
Cell Differentiation In this video segment from The Secret of Life school video, "Sex and the Single Gene" follow as a single fertilized egg cell divides, differentiates, and assembles into the tissues and organs of a new organism. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption	6-12	Video
Center for Sustainability at Penn State University: Energy System In this video an engineering design professor explains three power systems for a homestead at the Center for Sustainability at Penn State. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Center of Gravity: Pencil Balance Watch the ZOOM cast learn about center of gravity by trying to balance a pencil on their fingers and noses. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Centripetal Force: Roller Coaster Loops This video segment explains centripetal force and illustrates how roller coasters rely on it to give you a thrilling ride. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Changes in the Ozone Layer This video segment produced by ThinkTV demonstrates how ozone is created in the upper atmosphere, explains its beneficial role, and explores the problem of ozone depletion. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Changing Arctic Landscape In this video adapted from the Arctic Athabaskan Council, learn how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the landscape, triggering a host of effects such as permafrost thawing and insect infestations. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Changing Views of Pluto See images from the Hubble Space Telescope that show evidence of seasons on Pluto, in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Characteristics of the Sun This video segment adapted from NASA describes the basic characteristics of our star, the Sun. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Chasing Tornadoes In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists are on the hunt for tornadoes. Using Doppler radar, they gather data in the hopes of solving the mystery of how tornadoes form. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Cheese-Making Lab Activity In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a biotechnology lab. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Cheese-Making Lab Results In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a discussion of the results of a biotechnology lab. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Cheesybreadville In this video segment from Between the Lions, Cleo Lion reads aloud Cheesybreadville, a rhyming, lyrical story set in Puerto Rico about how the love of a husband and wife created cheesy bread. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
Chemical Risks to a Fetus Learn about the risks environmental contaminants pose for a developing fetus, in this video adapted from Contaminated Without Consent. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Chemist and Biologist Catherine Drennan In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, learn about MIT professor Cathy Drennan's research into microorganisms that remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
The Chemistry of Makeup In this video from DragonflyTV, join Jazi and Danielle as they experiment with different combinations of everyday ingredients in order to create and test batches of lip gloss. Accessibility features: Caption	5-8	Video
The Cherokee Alphabet This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: “We Shall Remain” explains how a Cherokee man named Sequoyah developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language, and how that alphabet changed and strengthened Cherokee society. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Chicken Waste and Water Pollution In this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: “Poisoned Waters,” learn how unregulated waste from large-scale chicken farms contributes to water pollution. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Choctaw Dances This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, presents aspects of traditional Mississippi Choctaw activities. Accessibility features: Caption	4-6	Video
Choosing Foods for Your Health This resource includes two video segments adapted from Living With MyType2 and features diabetic teenagers Misty and Tim explaining how they carefully choose the foods they eat. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Choreographing Large Groups In this video from Broadway or Bust, a choreographer works with an ensemble to prepare an opening dance number. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Citigroup Skyscraper Design Problem This video segment adapted from Building Big looks at the challenges faced by structural engineer William LeMessurier in designing a new skyscraper and how he very closely averted disaster. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
City Mouse and Country Mouse This video segment from Between the Lions places emphasis on "c" words as it retells an original version of Aesop’s fable. A city mouse and a country mouse trade living spaces only to discover there’s no place like home. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
The Civil War Era: About the Lancers Quadrille Dance and music educator Jennifer Rose explains the history of The Lancers Quadrille, including the origin of the dance and why it was popular in Civil War-era America. She also discusses the movements and sets of the dance. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
The Civil War Era: Uncle Tom’s Cabin In this scene from George Aiken’s dramatization of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the escaped slave Eliza reunites with her husband, George, and their friend Phineas. She recounts how she crossed the Ohio River with their child while escaping from slave hunters. Their exaggerated language and performance are characteristic of melodramas. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video