Curated OER
Your Vote Counts!
Students build an election campaign around their favorite TV characters. They acquire knowledge about candidates, slogans, qualifications, and voting using the activities in this instructional activity. Thus, they simulate the election...
Curated OER
Songwriting
Students watch the "The Greatest TV Moments: Sesame Street Music A to Z" video and brainstorm what the songs may be about. They choose a theme for a song, write a short topic-related poem, and compose music for it.
Curated OER
Sesame Street Word Search
In this Sesame Street word search activity, students read the names of 9 characters from the children's TV show. Students find them in a word search puzzle.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sesame Street Games
Welcome to the online world of Sesame Street! Full of fun yet educational games, activities, and videos starring all your favorite characters from the PBS series.
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The Sesame Workshop: The Sesame Street Story Corner
An excellent interactive site for children, including stories by Elmo, Big Bird and others. Dozens of stories and storybooks for children to read while learning essential skills.
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The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company has provided a wonderful site regarding the company's productions and latest news. Follow links to detailed productions or even apply to work with the Jim Henson Company!
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Games: Rhyme Time
Come aboard the Rhyme Time Express and learn about rhyming words!
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Sesame Street: Games
Help the Sesame Street characters while completing various early learning tasks. Students will develop language, reasoning skills, and independence as they play the games provided.
PBS
Pbs: Sesame Street: Science
A collection of interactives, videos, and documents on a variety science concepts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ernie's Dinosaur Day Care
"Help Ernie keep his dinosaur friends healthy and happy while learning about life science by making sure they are eating the right foods, getting exercise, staying clean, and getting enough rest."
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Pbs: Triumph of the Nerds
This page is the companion website to the PBS television special, Triumph of the Nerds. Coverage includes a history of the computer, a who's who, and a television transcript.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: A Life Inside Big Bird
Complete with audio and video links, this NPR web page tells the story of the puppeteer who is the voice and movement of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney. Includes excerpts from Spinney's autobiography. This site has lots of...
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Joan Ganz Cooney
She invented fun, educational television for preschoolers -- creating an institution with a measurable, positive impact on millions of children.
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Sesame Street Workshop
Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit educational organization with games, stories, coloring pages, plus more, with all the Sesame Street characters.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Creativity and the Arts
Advice for parents of preschool-age children, but pertinent to anyone interested in early child development, for using the arts to prepare children for school success.
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Sesame Street Games
These interactive games allow young children to explore the jungle, the oceans and the arctic regions. Children can look for animals in that area of the world.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Jim Henson's Fantastic World
A traveling exhibit is sweeping across America in 2009 bringing the colorful world of Jim Henson and his Muppets to cities everywhere. Even if you aren't able to make it to the show visiting this site will give you a taste of what you...
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University of Utah Kued: Kids!
This resource offers access to the websites of its children's programs. It includes games and activities for kids.