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Free Environmental Science Professional Development Sessions from PBS Teacherline
Professional Development
Explore the best practices for teaching global climate change to middle and high school students with these free, self-paced professional development modules for teachers. Each module includes STEM resources that will increase your knowledge of climate change concepts and can be used directly with students. These are extremely easy to use, so dive into the modules that interest you most.
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Interactive
Explore Environmental Hazards in a City Grade Range:3-5, 6-8
In this interactive activity from PBS LearningMedia, explore the environmental hazards that might be found at various locations within cities and towns, including construction sites, factories, homes, hospitals, offices and stores, parks, restaurants, rivers and lakes, schools, and vehicles.
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Interactive
Radio Martha
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
In this interactive white board game from Martha Speaks, students must match the pictures to words Martha is using during her radio talk show.
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Lesson Plan
Hamlet: The Final Scene Grade Range: 9-12
The final scene. How did the choices the actors made differ from the choices of the group? What movements were the most effective and why? What was more significant, his gesture or his looks? You might want to watch it again with the sound off to specifically look at how the actors tell the story with their bodies and their faces. Check out this lesson plan from Great Performances.
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Interactive
Math By Design
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Encourage your students to problem solve and think critically as they encounter unique geometry and measurement challenges. With this interactive, students are "hired" by an architectural firm to build a city park through a series of mathematical tasks. |
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Video
Math and Cakes
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
What kind of jobs make use of math every day? Here's one delicious answer. From baking measurements to proportion and balance in her designs, this cake designer depends on math.
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Interactive
Fetch's Lunch Rush App
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Check PBS KIDS' first augmented reality app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Fetch! Lunch Rush opens a new way of learning by teaching kids math skills while blending the virtual and real world into a truly engaging experience.
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Video
Killer Subs of Pearl Harbor
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
NOVA dives beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II--the sinking of the USS Arizona. More than 1,000 crew members perished in the greatest single loss of life in United States naval history. For decades, it has been thought that a bomb dropped by a Japanese aircraft sank the Arizona. But the discovery of a group of Japanese midget subs in and around Pearl Harbor has raised questions about the battleship's final hours.
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Interactive Website
Invitation to World Literature: The Odyssey Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Odysseus must travel the known and unknown world before he can return home to his beloved island kingdom of Ithaca. What do his adventures and suffering mean? What does this ancient story say to us today? Learn this and more with this resource.
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Video-Enhanced Lesson Plan
Telling a Visual Story of Waste
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
What kind of trash does America generate each year? Where does it go? What impact does our waste have on the environment? How can we reduce our trash output? Enhance your health, science, and environmental studies curriculum with this video which features a landfill in South Jersey and examines the state of food waste in America today. Use the accompanying lesson plan to prepare students to visually track and document different kinds of trash in their community. |
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