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Literacy, Languages, and the Arts
NOVEMBER 27 - DECEMBER 4, 2012
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Iowa Public Television is pleased to bring you our weekly e-newsletter that highlights some of the latest and best educational resources from IPTV and other public media institutions. 
Interactive
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Interactive Spelling Bee
Grade Range: K-2, 3-4, 6-8

In this interactive, students will listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story.

 
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Interactive Dust Bowl
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 

Have your students embark on an experience that will show what life was like on the southern Great Plains during the Dust Bowl. On the journey students will learn about the changing market and weather conditions and be asked to make decisions about whether to play it safe and keep a farm the same size or expand it for a greater profit. 

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Louisiana purchase
Lewis & Clark's Expedition to the Complex West 
Grade Range: 9-12 

This activity can be used as an introduction or for a closer study of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Students will learn that the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803 and President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore west of the Mississippi River in 1804, though the land was already inhabited and politically complicated.   

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Videos

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The Works of William Shakespeare

Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

 

Here are over 25 exclusive videos clips of the Royal Shakespeare Company in action performing the Bard's plays. They are presented here with short synopses, approximate modern-day ratings, fictional quotes, and the posters that Elizabethan theater owners would have made if they'd had access to modern print technology. 

 

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Video
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Stronger Hurricanes
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Are hurricanes becoming more intense? As M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel relates in this video, over the past half century the average strength and duration of hurricanes in the tropical regions of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has doubled. 

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Online Resource
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PBS TeacherLine Spring Courses
Professional Development

Start the new year off right, and invigorate your career. These popular PBS TeacherLine courses are a powerful way to improve your instructional skills, master new content, and expand your professional credentials.  

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