Kids love treasure hunts and a fun, yet surprisingly practical summer project allows them to design and build a magnetic-field detector and use it to find hidden magnets with students. Continue reading
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Resources for Freedom Summer 1964
This recollection from one of our most beloved singer/storytellers is among many riveting moments from American Experience’s Freedom Summer, airing on WGBY on June 24 at 9p. The film documents 10 memorable weeks in 1964 when more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in an historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states. For educator resources Continue reading
Calling All Soccer Fans
Did you know that the The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup is the world’s most widely watched sporting event? Now through 7/13 — or anytime — you can share these NEW PBS LearningMedia resources from PBS NewsHour to immerse your local educators and students grades 7-12 in the education opportunity of the 2014 finals tournament, putting it in context to history and current events. Continue reading
Blended Lesson: Character Change in Anne Frank
June 12 is Anne Frank’s Birthday. A blended lesson from WGBH in Boston examines what Anne Frank’s writing reveals about her character and how it changed while she was in hiding. Continue reading
The Nature Works Everywhere Collection
Students can explore amazing ways in which nature works to make our lives cleaner and healthier every day with the Nature Works Everywhere collection from The Nature Conservancy. The collection shows how all types of environments, plants, and animals play crucial roles in maintaining our global ecosystem and how we can help play a role in a more sustainable future. Continue reading
Take the STEM TEACHER CHALLENGE
The STEM TEACHER CHALLENGE, sponsored by Google and WGBH Education, is a video contest seeking creative STEM teaching solutions. Upload your video to our YouTube channel and it may be selected for inclusion in a special STEM collectionContinue reading
Students Create Mini-documentaries — No Media Experience Required!
Teachers and students can use a free online video editor and professional footage from a public television series to edit and publish their own 1-3 minute docs about North Africa. Lessons materials allow students to learn about current, global issues and create products in an innovative, hands-on multimedia learning environment, with each of six topics aligning to Common Core Standards. Continue reading
Salman Khan: Using Video to Flip One-Size-Fits-All to One-to-One Classroom Learning
You may be familiar with Salman Khan and his nonprofit Khan Academy, with its mission to make the highest quality education free to people anywhere in the world. In his TED Talk Let’s use video to reinvent education, Khan discusses learning gaps that are inevitable with traditional, “one-size-fits-all” learning. His tutorials flip the classroom, whereby students view the lesson/lecture at home and teachers are free Continue reading
Beavers — Great Hydro Engineers & Environmental Saviors
Industrious beavers are now seen by many experts as overlooked tools in the effort to reverse the disastrous effects of global warming and worldwide water shortages.
To complement NATURE’S Leave It To The Beavers, airing on WGBY on Wednesday, May 14, at 8p, PBS LearningMedia has resources Continue reading
A Poem for Mother’s Day
Listening to Daisy Zamora read her poem “Mother’s Day” can help us (and students) understand that real mothers are other than the picture-perfect model mothers we still find on television and film and in magazines.
This reading comes from Poetry Everywhere, the inspiring website we shared here during Poetry Month in April. Continue reading