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Smithsonian Institution: Remembering Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Gain access to radio and TV broadcasts featuring first-person narratives about being a slave. Learning guides are included online for teacher use.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: The News Hour

For Students 9th - 10th
This online version of the PBS television broadcast covers national and international news. Includes political coverage and a teacher resource section with videos categorized by curriculum area.
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Website
Other

Independent Television News: Itn

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
ITN is your United Kingdom news source. This site features links to ITV news stations, British news, world news, money, sports, weather, and entertaiment.
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PBS

Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is...
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Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Kids Work!

For Students 9th - 10th
Career insights about working in the health, performing arts, and broadcasting professions. Find interviews with people who work in these fields, tours of work places, and "job play" interactives that let you experience what life is like...
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Other

Ohio University: Woub Digital

For Students 9th - 10th
WOUB Digital provides programming information for WOUB, a public broadcasting service of Ohio University.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc News: Mundo

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC World's Spanish portal. Read the latest news from one of the world's most respected broadcasting channels. Also contains downloadable audio files from BBC radio. Links to BBC World in multiple world languages.
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Other

Writers Guild of America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the Writers Guild of America homepage. It is an organization for writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries. In addition to other services, the site provides a mentoring service for its members.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your learners using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 8 Moments When Radio Helped Bring Americans Together

For Students 9th - 10th
These are just a few of the historic radio broadcasts that seemed to have the whole nation listening. This article discusses eight of the most seminal moments in radio -- from KDKA's 's live nighttime Fireside Chats, the 'Fight of the...
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Other

Radio News: Edward R. Murrow

For Students 9th - 10th
This site not only gives a biography of Murrow with a look at his career as a radio and television journalist, but also has 4 audio clips of actual radio reports he gave. Very interesting. Use the links at the bottom of the page.
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Website
Other

The Working Reporter: A Resource for Journalists

For Students 9th - 10th
A great all-in-one news site, the Working Reporter provides national and international news, updated constantly with a running ticker so you can add to your own Web page for free.
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Other

Federal Communications Commission: About the Fcc

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the FCC provides an in-depth look at the Federal Communications Commission and the job it performs.
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Website
Other

Nabj: National Association of Black Journalists

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From the largest media organization for people of color, this imaginative site is graphically clever with content to support it. Interesting reading for all journalists, as well as a great teaching tool for anyone interested in effective...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Watching the Clock: Building Media Savvy Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson that leads students to an understanding of the time constraints on broadcast news by applying data-collecting and data-display skills. Students will learn to identify the main difference between publicly funded news programs...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Modern Muslim Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.
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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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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Lesson One: Creating Great Audio for Video

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will learn the basic concepts necessary to produce broadcast quality audio recordings of human speech (which can then be used in professional radio or television productions). Lesson 1 of 3.
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Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Richard M. Nixon: Checkers

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [5:21] of Richard Nixon, Vice Presidential Candidate, addresses the nation on TV on September 23, 1952, explaining the $18,000 he took from a group of his supporters. It is known as the "Checkers" speech.
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Other

Teen Analyst: Salary Tables by Career Field

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a table of average salaries for the various career fields. However, these aren't representative of everyone in that field. For example, some television reporters make millions of dollars a year. The salaries listed are a little...
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Evening News Tom Brokaw

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an interview of Tom Brokaw that investigates the importance and impact of the Evening News shows put on by the big broadcast networks.
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Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Nixon Kennedy Debate

For Students 3rd - 8th
Although Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy weren't the first presidential candidates to use the media to reach the public, their debates showed most clearly how television could influence the voting public.
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Website
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Walter Cronkite on Npr

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.
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Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Lee De Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides information on the life and inventions of Lee DeForest, the man who invented the audion tube, which made commercial radio broadcasting practical.