Literacy, Languages, and the Arts
September 4-September 10, 2013 |
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Find the latest educational resources for literacy, languages, and the arts from Iowa Public Television.
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Analyzing King's Speech 
Grade Range: 9-12
Students study Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and discuss the rhetorical influences on King's speech, the oratorical devices that King uses in delivering his speech and how a speech is similar to/different from other literary forms.
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Who, What, Where
Grade Range: 1-4 
In this video segment from Jakers!, students learn that it is fun to create stories to share with others. A good story includes who the story is about (the character), what it is about (the plot) and where it takes place (the setting). A storyteller can create any story with these building blocks. When readers can identify these elements in a story, they can better interpret, understand and respond to it. Additionally, as an extra way to make a story entertaining, it can be told in different ways, such as through a rap.
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Opposite Bunny: hot/cold, chilly/warm
Grade Range: PreK-1 
In this video segment from Between the Lions, an animated superhero bunny saves the day through the use of opposites. In this segment he tells a hippo who is hot to jump into the water. The hippo then gets cold, so the bunny motions her to come back to shore. Then the hippo is chilly. The bunny wraps a towel around the hippo, and then she is warm. The featured vocabulary words are: hot, cold, chilly, and warm. This video segment provides a resource for fluency, vocabulary, and language and vocabulary development.
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Cause and Effect Relationships - Silence of the Bees
Grade Range: 6-8
Students watch two video segments in order to take notes and answer questions about the disappearance of bees across the United States. Using this information, students write an essay that synthesizes the cause and effect relationship the disappearance of bees will cause.
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Music: One Minute Music Lesson
Grades: 3-8
People create musical performances all over the world. Students will watch a one-minute animation about the history of music.
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African Art
Grades: 6-7,9-12
In the Barnes Foundation art collection, form, rather than the cultural context in which the works of art were created, is emphasized. Dr. Barnes arranged his collection so that African masks are positioned next to European paintings. This allows viewers to compare the forms of the two styles of art and note the similarities between the paintings and the masks. This video, an excerpt from the documentary "The Barnes Collection," explains Dr. Barnes' interest in form, and shows African masks and sculptures next to European paintings.
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How Do You Say...?
Grade Range: K-2
This interactive game offers students an opportunity to learn Spanish expressions used commonly in conversation. First students see a group of four black and white illustrated scenes, accompanied by corresponding written and spoken Spanish expressions that describe the scenes. Then they advance to a new page featuring only one of the four illustrations and are prompted to match the scene to the correct Spanish expression. Four written and spoken choices are provided at the bottom of the screen. Once they match the scene to the correct expression, the illustration transforms into color. After making a series of four correct matches, students are invited to print out a page containing the four illustrated scenes, which they can color, turn into flash cards, or combine with other sheets to create a phrase booklet.
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