Interactive
WordGirl vs. Miss Power: Face OffGrade Range: K-2, 3-5
Miss Power has come to Earth from outer space to teach WordGirl everything she knows. Miss Power has a secret weapon: using mean words against others. In this WordGirl interactive, students must identify the antonym of the mean words Miss Power is using against WordGirl. Students play against the clock while increasing their vocabulary range.
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Video & Interactive
PBS KIDS: Explore the Outdoors
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Leading up to Earth Day, IPTV will present four weeks of Explore the Outdoors with themed episodes from Wild Kratts, Dinosaur Train, The Cat in the Hat, and Curious George. IPTV is increasingly serving students wherever they live, learn, and play -- online, on mobile devices, on TV, and in the classroom. Find outdoor themed games, activities, and video at PBS KIDS Outdoors.
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Video
Masterpiece Classic: Great Expectations
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Pip, an orphan boy, meets an escaped convict, a mentally unhinged rich woman, and a bewitching girl, and is bestowed great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
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Video
Off Book: Art in the Era of the Internet
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The Internet has intensified connections between people across the planet and has fundamentally altered our relationship with art. This episode of Off Book explores how platforms like Kickstarter, Creative Commons, and The Creators Project have shaped the way art is created, published, and shared in the digital age.
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Video
Dissecting Prose and Squid with Biologist/Poet Kate Larson
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Using her career as a molecular biologist as a starting point, Katherine Larson shapes her poems with descriptions of squid, suction cups and branchial hearts. She won last year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was recognized as a poet of "genuine promise" with the Kate Tufts Discovery Award last month.
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Interactive
Arc Length
Grade Range: 9-12
This interactive from PBS LearningMedia starts with examples of an arc of a circle. Students are asked to discover examples of their own. The definition of a circular arc and the method used to find its length are provided along with completed examples of solutions to problems and plenty of practice problems.
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Video
NOVA: Hunting the Elements
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They are the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the most abundant elements in the universe, and the rarest of the rare--substances cooked up in atom smashers.
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Video Biodegradation
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
In this animated video from PBS LearningMedia, a student is quizzed about a "secret weapon" that is virtually indestructible and made of a high-tech composite impervious to heat and light. Brad is surprised to learn that the "weapon" is an ordinary juice box. Brad then learns that one billion juice boxes are thrown out every year, which prompts his decision to use a reusable water bottle instead.
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Multimedia
Electric Company: Prankster Planet
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
Electric Company's Prankster Planet is a world that spans online, broadcast, and print, each enriching the other. In this multimedia platform, kids embark on learning adventures in a series of twelve two-minute cartoon mini-episodes. Check out the teacher guide to see how you can use Electric Company resources in your classroom.
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Video
American Masters: Is 'Gone With The Wind' Literature
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Scholars and devoted readers of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 classic novel have been arguing the book's literary merits for decades. Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel premieres on IPTV on Monday, April 2 from 9-10 p.m.
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Multimedia
Coping with Climate Change
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
As global temperatures increase and weather patterns shift, the PBS NewsHour will explore how American communities are dealing with climate change. On its new "Coping with Climate Change" page, you will be able to find video reports, blog posts, slide shows, and interactive features that explore many angles on the subject.
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Video
American Experience: The Panama Canal
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where, just a few years earlier, the French had failed disastrously. however, the U.S. paid a price for victory. Learn the history, science, and full story behind the Panama Canal.
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