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Featured Resource
PBS LearningMedia: Class Pages
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
PBS LearningMedia is the new digital library of public media content built specifically for teachers, but do you know about the new Class Pages feature? Anything you've saved on PBS LearningMedia can be transformed into a powerful tool for you students. Rather than showing a clip in class, with the class page feature, you can let students, parents, and anyone else view your saved media anytime they want. 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. Set up multiple sections for different students working together in groups, or assign an interactive as homework. The possibilities are endless.
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Teacher Guide
Film in the Classroom
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
This completely updated guide, created for Masterpiece's 40th anniversary, offers fresh ideas and innovative activities for teaching film in today's digital environment. Drawing on 25 outstanding Masterpiece films, the guide will help you use film not just as an adjunct to literature, but as a tool that can improve students' understanding of media literacy as well as literary elements. |
Event
WordGirl Definition Competition
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
On May 1, engage your students with vocabulary words in an entertaining and interactive context with the WordGirl Definition Competition. During the 30-minute, live webcast, students will enrich their vocabulary and have fun in the process. Register today to receive an event kit, which offer kids practice with the skills featured in the webcast.
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Video
Both Sides of Slavery
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Coming to terms with mixed roots can be surprising and sometimes even painful. Educator Geoffrey Canada visits Franklin County Virginia where, a white man possibly fathered one of his enslaved ancestors more than a century ago.
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Video
Who Can Authenticate Andy Warhol's Art?
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Two guests appeared at the summer 2011 El Paso Antiques Roadshow with works by Andy Warhol. Learn more how the appraisers authenticated these pieces of art by looking for stylistic nuances of Warhol's art.
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Video
A New PBS Series: America Reveled
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
America Revealed is a new series that shows the inner-workings of our country by analyzing the systems and patterns that keep our country running. The series is full of exciting learning opportunities for students and looks at four important areas of America's infrastructure: food, transportation, energy, and manufacturing. Check out these ten video stories made specifically for the classroom.
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Interactive
Martha's Rhyme Time
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
In this interactive from Martha Speaks, students make their own rhyming couplets. Not only does this interactive help build students' phonemic awareness, but Martha defines each word to help improve student vocabulary. Once students have finished creating their own couplet, they can choose different scenes to match their poem and print it out.
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