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Daily Video August 30 2017

How media literacy helps you talk about Hurricane Harvey with your students

Students will have many questions and concerns about Hurricane Harvey in the coming days. Use this PBS lesson to help you discuss the effects of extreme weather events with your students and helpful media literacy tools when it comes to media coverage of the hurricane.

Daily Video August 21 2017

Fun facts about the 2017 solar eclipse

August 21, 2017, will provide an out-of-this-world experience for millions of Americans when the moon passes between the sun and earth, climaxing with momentary darkness. This scientific event is called a solar eclipse.

Daily Video August 10 2017

Antibiotics keep animals healthy, but some dangerous superbugs are resistant

As high-density, industrial-scale livestock feeding operations become the norm, farmers have had to take extra steps to keep animals healthy. Illnesses and diseases grow and spread quickly when large numbers of similar animals are kept in close proximity.

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

Daily Video August 08 2017

Invasive parakeets threaten Hawaii's ecosystem

Rose-ringed parakeets have multiplied by the thousands on the Hawaiian island of Kauai since the 1960s, when a few parakeets kept as pets escaped. The birds have since caused problems by damaging native plants and farm crops.

Lesson Plan August 02 2017

Lesson plan: How new inventions help people with disabilities and injuries

For a Google version of this lesson plan, click here. (Note: you will need to make a copy of the do…

Daily Video July 27 2017

All-girls robotics team from Afghanistan competes after initial visa denial

An all-girls team from Afghanistan reached the United States for a robotics competition after having their visas denied twice by American officials. Finally, they were allowed into the country.

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

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