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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nova: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How the Nfl Popularized Thanksgiving Day Football

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Brand New Flag: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Learn Along Bingo Packets: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ready to Learn 2015 2020 Initiative

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Audiences and Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: Stag at Sharkey's by George Bellows

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
Math Playground

Math Playground: Problem Solving Videos

For Students 6th - 8th
"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...
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Unit Plan
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Report Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th
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,...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tonga

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Wv Youth Reporting Project

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Nj Physics Professor Has the 'Right Stuff'

For Teachers 7th
[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.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bernard Shaw

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Scotland During the Second World War

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Winifred May De Kok (1893 1969) & Her Children

For Students 9th - 10th
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...