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Lesson Plan August 08 2017

Lesson plan: How renewable energy inventions protect the environment

Explore inventions that harness the power of water to make electricity
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Daily Video July 20 2017

America's National Parks: Lessons in STEM from early Native Americans

America the Beautiful is a video series produced by PBS Student Reporting Labs in celebration of the U.S. National Park Service's 100-year anniversary in 2016
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Daily Video July 19 2017

America's National Parks: Mammoth archaeological discovery made in Channel Islands National Park

Watch this video about America's National Parks by Student Reporting Labs
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Post June 07 2017

10 facts about the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement
  President Trump announced at a speech in the Rose Garden on Jun…
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Daily Video May 05 2017

How does mountaintop mining impact the Appalachian landscape?

Underground coal mining has all but disappeared in West Virginia after 200 years of nonstop mining, replaced instead by surface mining that drastically changes the landscape.
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Lesson Plan October 24 2016

Student Reporting Labs: How well are our wells?
In the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab video, "Water Scarcity for New Mexico Natives," Las Cruces High School students describe climate changes and human activities which impact quality and availability of groundwater. In the lesson plan, students gather information from a low-cost physical model, choose a part of the groundwater and well problem, propose a solution and defend their proposal.
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Lesson Plan October 03 2016

Student Reporting Labs: Talking trash and your environment
Use this PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs video, "California community works to protect oc…
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Post October 16 2014

Do Now: How can we help fight the Ebola outbreak?
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Lesson Plan September 30 2014

Lesson plan: Ebola outbreak
By Katie Gould, PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer Introduction The Ebola outbrea…
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Post May 19 2014

12 top education resources to teach at the end of the school year
It's nearly the end of another school year and NewsHour Extra wants to help you celebrate. Here are…
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