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The Dancing, by Gerald Stern

The Dancing, by Gerald Stern

In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Gerald Stern reads his poem, "The Dancing", which moves from pleasant memories of the poet’s childhood to the horror of World War II.

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7-12

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Dark Energy

Dark Energy

In this video adapted from QUEST, learn about the discovery of a form of energy, called dark energy, which has the potential to alter our theories of how the universe is structured. OER Level

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10-12

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Darwin: Reluctant Rebel

Darwin: Reluctant Rebel

This video segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," together with interviews with Daniel Dennett and James Moore, depicts Darwin struggling with publicizing his revolutionary theory.

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9-12

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Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaiʻi

Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaiʻi

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists search for carbonized remains of plants preserved in lava flows to find out how long it has taken rain forests on Hawaiʻi to regenerate after a volcanic eruption. OER Level

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3-12

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Dealing with Controversy

Dealing with Controversy

In this video segment from Teaching Evolution Case Studies, science teachers explore how controversy may arise in teaching evolution in the public school classroom. OER Level

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K-12

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Dealing with Rejection

Dealing with Rejection

In this video from the Broadway or Bust website, coaches and young performers share how they cope with rejection.

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6-12

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Dealing with Stage Fright

Dealing with Stage Fright

In this video from the Broadway or Bust website, coaches and students comment on how to manage stage fright.

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6-12

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Debating Slavery

Debating Slavery

In this video segment adapted from Africans in America, learn how the issue of slavery shaped the debate at the U.S. Constitutional Convention.

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5-12

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Deciphering the Maya Code

Deciphering the Maya Code

This video segment adapted from NOVA examines the ancient Maya writing system and looks at what they recorded in their writings. OER Level

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5-12

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Decision-Maker Bees and the Human Brain

Decision-Maker Bees and the Human Brain

Learn about the similarity between the pattern of communication within a bee colony and neural networks in the human brain, in this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW. OER Level

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6-12

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Decision in the Streets

Decision in the Streets

This video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64.

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9-12

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Declaring Freedom...But For Whom?

Declaring Freedom...But For Whom?

In this video segment adapted from Africans in America, consider the American view of freedom that was defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

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5-12

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Decomposers

Decomposers

Without the work of decomposers, living organisms would eventually use up all the raw materials in the environment, and dead organisms and wastes would pile up. This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" describes the role of decomposers as the Earth's great recyclers.

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K-5

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Deep in the Swamp

Deep in the Swamp

This video segment from Between the Lions is an animated version of the trade book “Deep in the Swamp” set to music. It focuses on numbers and animal vocabulary words.

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Pre-K-1

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Deep-Sea Vents and Life's Origins

Deep-Sea Vents and Life's Origins

Deep-sea vents are home to life forms that do not rely on the Sun's energy. They depend instead on energy from volcanoes on the ocean floor. This video segment adapted from NOVA hypothesizes that life on Earth may have begun in this extreme environment. OER Level

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3-12

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Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins

Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins

Deep-sea vents are home to strange, luminescent life forms that thrive through chemosynthesis. This video segment from NOVA: "Volcanoes of the Deep" hypothesizes life's beginnings in this extreme environment. OER Level

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3-12

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Deep Time

Deep Time

In this video a Penn State professor refers to National Park canyons carved out by water and wind as he explains “deep time” - the notion that the earth is billions of years old; another professor states how the theory of evolution is supported by evidence of an ancient Earth recorded in rocks.

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6-12

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Defy Gravity! Balancing Balls on Air

Defy Gravity! Balancing Balls on Air

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members use a hair dryer to balance a ball in a stream of air, seemingly defying gravity.

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K-8

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Defy Gravity! Centripetal Force

Defy Gravity! Centripetal Force

How can you keep a ball from falling out of a jar if the jar is upside down? Watch the ZOOM cast use centripetal force to meet this challenge. OER Level

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3-8

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Defy Gravity! Upside Down Ping Pong Ball

Defy Gravity! Upside Down Ping Pong Ball

In this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a ping pong ball in a funnel while the funnel is held upside down, seemingly defying gravity. OER Level

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3-8

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Dendroclimatology in the Navajo Nation

Dendroclimatology in the Navajo Nation

In this video segment adapted from Navajo Technical College, meet a dendroclimatologist who studies the relationship between precipitation and tree growth in the Navajo Nation. OER Level

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6-12

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Dengue Virus Invades a Cell

Dengue Virus Invades a Cell

In this visualization adapted from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, discover the role that dengue viral proteins play in a human cell as the virus prepares to replicate. OER Level

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9-12

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Density and Buoyancy: Experimenting with Club Soda

Density and Buoyancy: Experimenting with Club Soda

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast discovers that gas-filled bubbles act like life jackets for raisins, making them buoyant. OER Level

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K-8

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Density and Buoyancy: Making Eggs Float

Density and Buoyancy: Making Eggs Float

Why does an egg float in salt water? Learn about density and buoyancy in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. OER Level

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K-8

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Density and Buoyancy: Mixing Hot and Cold Water

Density and Buoyancy: Mixing Hot and Cold Water

Watch warm water float on top of cold water in this video segment adapted from ZOOM.

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K-8

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Density and Buoyancy: Pouring Air into Water

Density and Buoyancy: Pouring Air into Water

This video segment adapted from ZOOM offers a clever demonstration of buoyancy by showing how to pour a cup of air into a cup filled with water.

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K-8

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Density and Buoyancy: Testing Liquids

Density and Buoyancy: Testing Liquids

Will a grape float in oil? Will a metal nut sink in corn syrup? Watch as the ZOOM cast tests the buoyancy of a variety of liquids and objects. OER Level

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K-8

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The Deployable Energy Absorber

The Deployable Energy Absorber

Watch how engineers stage a crash to test a new helicopter safety design technology in this video from NASA. OER Level

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9-12

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Desert Biome

Desert Biome

This video segment from NOVA: "A Desert Place" describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome. OER Level

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3-12

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Desert Habitat

Desert Habitat

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines warm and cold (high) deserts, and describes some of the plants and animals found there as well as their adaptations for living in each type of desert. OER Level

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4-6

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Desert Tortoise

Desert Tortoise

This video segment from Outdoor Nevada examines threats to the desert tortoise population. OER Level

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K-12

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Design for Function

Design for Function

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad designs an invention that will help them cross a swamp and also reach the top of a tall cliff. OER Level

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3-5

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Designing a Paper Bridge

Designing a Paper Bridge

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to hold a hundred pennies? OER Level

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3-8

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Designing a Puff Mobile

Designing a Puff Mobile

The air you exhale can power a puff mobile. Watch as the ZOOM cast races their air-powered designs to see which design features are the most successful. OER Level

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K-5

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Designing a Roller Coaster

Designing a Roller Coaster

This video adapted from DESIGN SQUAD profiles Chris Gray, a mechanical engineer who uses his knowledge of energy transfer to design roller coasters. OER Level

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5-12

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Designing a Roller Coaster

Designing a Roller Coaster

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast is challenged to design and test a roller coaster with loops, hills, and U-turns. OER Level

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3-5

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Designing Balloon Cars

Designing Balloon Cars

Can the air in a balloon power a car? Watch students from Weston, Massachusetts, demonstrate their balloon car designs in this video adapted from ZOOM. OER Level

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3-8

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Designing Electric Circuits: Door Alarm

Designing Electric Circuits: Door Alarm

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members design and build door alarms using a variety of materials, including aluminum foil, batteries, and buzzers.

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3-8

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Designing Electric Circuits: Steadiness Tester

Designing Electric Circuits: Steadiness Tester

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members discover that metal is a good conductor of electricity as they play the steadiness tester game. OER Level

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3-5

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Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy

Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy. OER Level

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3-8

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Designing Swimming Prosthetics for a Dancer

Designing Swimming Prosthetics for a Dancer

In this video segment adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, teams of high school kids use the engineering design process to build specialized prostheses for a double-amputee dancer who performs underwater. OER Level

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6-12

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Designing the Citigroup Skyscraper

Designing the Citigroup Skyscraper

This video segment adapted from Thinking Big, Building Small shows how a structural engineer overcame the challenge of building New York's Citigroup skyscraper over a church.

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3-8

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Designing a Wheelchair for Rugby

Designing a Wheelchair for Rugby

In this video segment adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, teams of high school kids use the engineering design process to build an automated wheelchair to help a U.S. Paralympic athlete train. OER Level

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6-12

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Design Squad: Sound

Design Squad: Sound

In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—learn about the fundamentals of sound as student teams create percussive and stringed instruments for a local band. OER Level

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3-12

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Design Squad: Suspension Bridge

Design Squad: Suspension Bridge

In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—students employ the concepts of tension and compression to build a suspension bridge without the aid of power tools. OER Level

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5-12

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Design Squad: Truss Bridge

Design Squad: Truss Bridge

In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—students employ the concepts of tension and compression as they build a truss bridge without the aid of power tools. OER Level

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5-12

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Detecting Life on Other Planets

Detecting Life on Other Planets

In this video from NOVA scienceNOW, learn how scientists detect potential signs of life on distant planets. OER Level

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6-12

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Developing the Periodic Table

Developing the Periodic Table

This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" looks at how early chemists developed the periodic table of elements. OER Level

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6-12

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Diane Nash and the Sit-Ins

Diane Nash and the Sit-Ins

Diane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement.

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6-12

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The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank

This resource featuring three video segments from “The Diary of Anne Frank” dramatizes several moments in Anne’s life in hiding from the Nazis during World War II, as described in her diary.

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5-12

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