PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nova: Collection
The NOVA collection on PBS LearningMedia contains over 1500 resources from NOVA's broadcast and digital productions that educators can use in their lessons to spark and enrich student knowledge of STEM (Science Technology Engineering...
A&E Television
History.com: How the Nfl Popularized Thanksgiving Day Football
Thanksgiving football dates to at least 1876, when Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, on a cold, bleak afternoon in Hoboken, New Jersey. By the 1890s, many college and high school teams played on the holiday. But the tradition didn't become a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Brand New Flag: Molly of Denali
Molly does a school report on Benny Benson, a young Alaska Native boy who won a contest to design the Alaska state flag, and is inspired to hold a contest of her own, in this 11-minute animated story [25:25] from the PBS KIDS series...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Learn Along Bingo Packets: Collection
These bilingual, weekly Learn Along Bingo packets (one for PreK & K, one for Grades 1 & 2) will include a range of thematic learning opportunities for children to choose their own learning adventures. Emphasis will be on the PBS...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ready to Learn 2015 2020 Initiative
Through the Ready To Learn (RTL) Initiative, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), PBS, and local PBS stations provide free, evidence-based educational resources that help teachers, caregivers, and parents build early science...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Audiences and Purposes
This lesson features several weather videos, both real and created, to help students understand how information and the tone changes based on the audiences and the purposes for the presentation.
PBS
Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: Stag at Sharkey's by George Bellows
Webpage describing the painting Stag at Sharkey's by George Bellows from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote about...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Problem Solving Videos
"Rated 'M' for middle school," Math TV invites you to tune in each week for videos of word problems being solved. Back episodes are available in subjects such as percentages, number sense, and fractions. Watch a problem worked out, then...
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Report Writing
Do you need to write a paper for your Science class? Want to create a public service announcement to broadcast during your school's morning announcements? Or, do you need to make a digital slideshow for a small group project? If so,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Tonga
The Tonga never formed a single political unit. Today they are an ethnic group united by common language and in opposition to other Zambian ethnic groups, with whom they compete. The Tonga speak dialects of ciTonga, a Central Bantu...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Wv Youth Reporting Project
Use the resources in this collection to learn how a middle school teacher from West Virginia promoted reading, research, interviewing, writing and speaking skills as his students explored some tough issues. Students worked with a public...
Read Works
Read Works: Nj Physics Professor Has the 'Right Stuff'
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about Dr. Greg Olsen, the third private citizen to travel to outer space. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Bernard Shaw
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Bernard Shaw, an American television journalist and the first chief anchor for the Cable News Network (CNN). Shaw's childhood heroes included newsman Edward R. Murrow, whose television...
BBC
Bbc: Scotland During the Second World War
This site is posted by the British Broadcasting Corporation and it provides information on Scotland in the time of WWII. By playing the Spy Game, you can study the "Day to day running of the war." The setting is Scotland in 1941. You can...
Curated OER
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Winifred May De Kok (1893 1969) & Her Children
South African born writer and broadcaster Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) had attended medical school in England during the 1920s and was in medical practice until 1953, when she became a television broadcaster, engaging in discussions...