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Featured Resource
 PBS NewHour Extra: News for Students and Resources for Teachers
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
PBS NewsHour Extra provides unique current events resources for teachers: news stories, pictures, maps, video, in-depth lesson plans, stories written by students, and much more. The site is cross-curricular and offers something for every type of teacher.
The Student Voices section offers editorials and essays written by students with unique perspectives on issues and news events. In fact, students from Shenandoah, IA have shared their experiences covering the 2012 Republican caucuses.
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Interactive
The Detective's Notebook Game
Grade Range: K-5
Get your students to think about what they are reading. This interactive has students access an amateur detective's notebook to find clues, make inferences, and predict through logical thinking.
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Interactive
Mission US: Flight to Freedom
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
Part interactive, part choose your own adventure, and all amazing history, Mission US allows your students to immerse themselves in American history like nothing else. The game's structure allows students to take completely different routes and end up completing the game and interpreting history in divergent ways.
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Video Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firefighters and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. This is their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony from the people on the frontlines.
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Register today for these ICN sessions, at no charge to you or your school, to network your students with other learners throughout the state.
Can't make it to any of these sessions? Take a look at IPTV's ICN events calendar to schedule your next opportunity.
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Interactive
Electric Company: Feel Electric App
Grade Range: PreK-2
This new app helps your students explore emotions. Part of the "Finding the Right Word" initiative, this app offers engaging tolls that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression.
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Video American Experience: The Amish
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
An intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life, this film examines how such a closed and communal culture has thrived within one of the most open, individualistic societies on earth. What does the future hold for a community whose existence is so rooted in the past? And what does our fascination with the Amish say about deep American values?
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Video
The Oldest Mammal on Earth
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Analysis of one amino acid in Bowhead Whales' tissue is revealing astonishing information about their age. There are some estimates that the whales could be over 200 years old, making them one of the oldest animals on the planet.
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Video
Extract Your Own DNA
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Behold your very own DNA in this do-it-yourself science experiment.
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Lesson Plan
 Wild Kratts: All About Lizards
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Lizards represent a large group of reptiles with thousands of different species. Each lizard has characteristics that help it live and thrive in its particular environment. These activities will enable students to explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics and behavior, and help them identify special characteristics of each lizard that allows it to thrive in its habitat. |
Video A Full Performance of Macbeth
Grade Range: 9-12
Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militaristic society and starring Sir Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Kate Fleetwood as his coldly scheming wife, has been rethought in vivid film terms.
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