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November 29 - December 6 
IPTV is pleased to bring you our weekly eNewsletter that highlights some of our many educational resources, programs, and ICN sessions available.

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New Features Added to PBS LearningMedia

Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
PBS LearningMedia has added several new features to its site that will make it easier to find and share great content. You can now create Class Pages where students can view and use anything you have saved on LearningMedia. You can create separate pages for the different classes you teach and add comments to each individual content piece so that your students know exactly what you want them to learn. Additionally, you can share
your comments on content pieces with other teachers using LearningMedia. This way you can share how you specifically used a resource with your students.
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Prange & Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession

Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
This program explores the work of Gordon Prange, an Iowa native and University of Maryland professor who researched and wrote, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold History of Pearl Harbor a book the New York Times called "impossible to forget."
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PBS Arts

Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The PBS Arts Online concept is the core of the PBS Strategy for strengthening arts awareness, appreciation, and education in America. The PBS Arts website houses videos that will help broaden your students' awareness, spur greater interest, and increase understanding of visual, cultural, and performing arts.
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New Episode of the Iowa Outdoors

Grade Range: 6-8, 912 
Have your students explore environmental issues, conservation initiatives, and Iowa's natural resources with Iowa Outdoors. An all-new episode premiers December 2 and will take your students high above and deep below Iowa's surface.

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NOVA: What Darwin Never Knew

Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, but what explains this explosion of living creatures? Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? Find out on this episode of NOVA.

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Things they Carried
How Different Authors Treat Similar Themes
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 

Students watch two videos by two different authors on similar themes about elephants and their relationship with humans. Students will take notes on the details of each documentary and will write a script and devise storyboards for their own documentary about elephants.
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