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Black Roller Skaters Are Carrying Forward LA's Iconic Scene | If Cities Could Dance
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In Los Angeles, jam skaters draw from a community and culture built over generations at Venice Beach and at rinks across the city. Over the past year, roller skating hit the mainstream as a safe and relatively accessible pandemic-era pastime, its international popularity bolstered by people recording their shaky progress on social media. Skates were sold out for months, and skaters have become major influencers on Instagram and TikTok. But longtime skaters are quick to remind everyone: This isn’t a fad.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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PBS
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PBS Learning Media
Date Added:
03/06/2023
Blend Phonemes, Practice Long "I"
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Blend phonemes and practice long "i" sounds with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Scretching-Cole. Students will practice blending and reading with the long "i" sound with a focus on the "igh" and "-y" spelling.

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Education
Elementary Education
Material Type:
Interactive
Lesson
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PBS
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PBS Learning Media
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PBS Learning Media
Date Added:
03/06/2023
How Go-Go Music Inspires the Beat Ya Feet Dance Movement | If Cities Could Dance
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John “Crazy Legz” Pearson, founder of the Who Got Moves Battle League, is breathing life back into Beat Ya Feet -- the bouncy, fast-moving dance found in the streets, backyards and go-go clubs of Black D.C. At the heart of the dance style is the music: go-go, a blend of funk, call-and-response and Afro-Latin rhythms, ubiquitous in D.C.'s Black neighborhoods.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Activity/Lab
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PBS
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PBS Learning Media
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PBS Learning Media
Date Added:
03/06/2023
Jam Skate How-To | If Cities Could Dance
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Los Angeles Pro Roller Skater Alicia Reason breaks down some classic jam skate moves, including the crazy legs, moonwalk, electric slide, and spread eagle, then puts them together in a dance routine for you to follow.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Activity/Lab
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PBS
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PBS Learning Media
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PBS Learning Media
Date Added:
03/06/2023
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
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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.

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History
U.S. History
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Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
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PBS
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PBS Learning Media
Date Added:
07/10/2003
The Secret Life of the Brain
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This site presents a history of efforts to understand the brain, a three-dimensional tour of the brain, optical illusions, and an animation showing how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) works. Video clips examine how the brain evolves and differs from infancy to childhood, adolescence, and through adulthood.

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Anatomy/Physiology
Arts and Humanities
Biology
Life Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Lecture
Reading
Provider:
PBS
Provider Set:
PBS Learning Media
Date Added:
12/18/2003