Media Specialists
September 4-September 10, 2013 |
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Find the latest educational resources 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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Civil Rights
Grade Range: 6-12 
In 1954, the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared segregated schools unconstitutional and sparked a decade of groundbreaking civil rights activism and legislation. Using archival news footage, primary sources, and interview segments filmed for Eyes on the Prize, this collection captures the voices, images, and events of the Civil Rights movement and the ongoing struggle for racial equality in America.
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Global Warming: The Hydrogen Car
Grade Range: 3-12
Is the hydrogen car the answer to global warming? This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at the pros and cons of this developing technology.
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Scientist Profile: Motorcycle Engineers
Grade Range: 4-6 
Bruce Roberts always loved solving the "puzzles" given to him in math classes. He now enjoys daily mathematical challenges as an engineer for Harley Davidson Motorcycles in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Along with his math skills, Bruce uses the latest cool computer programs to dream up the safest, fastest, and best designs for these powerful "bikes." Rick found a new appreciation for math, using it every day to test motorcycle components.
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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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The Rise of Social Networking
Grade Range: 6-12
If you use online social networks, you're not alone. In this video from FRONTLINE: "digital_nation," teens talk about how they connect with friends online through sites like Facebook and MySpace, and what kind of information they share.
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Galaxies
Grade Range: All
This Building Block video features an animation of a voyage away from the Milky Way galaxy, and past other galaxies, to a view of the Virgo supercluster.
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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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Railroad Repair Using Decimal Addition
Grade Range: 3-6
In this Cyberchase interactive game, Hacker has removed some of the tracks on the Trans-Cyberspace Railroad. The challenge is to repair the tracks so that the Cybertrain can get back to the central station. A set of spare tracks that range in length from 0.1 to 1.0 will be used to fill in the gaps. In many cases it will be necessary to use a combination of two or three pieces to fill in the missing part of the track. All the gaps on the screen must be filled before the train will move.
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Measuring Length Precisely
Grade Range: 3-6
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must remove a voice box from a giant statue of Hacker. The CyberSquad prepares to lower Digit down on a rope that will reach the voice box, but they need an exact measurement of the distance to the voice box so that Digit won't touch the laser alarms which protect it. They try to figure out how long the rope must be by using what they know about other measurements and the relationships among them.
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How Does Government Affect Me?
Grade Range: 3-8
A virtual tour of a town's buildings, roads, and parks teaches kids how federal, state, and local government decisions directly impact their community. This activity also provides a basic understanding of the branches of the federal government and balance of power. Examine the different ways local government impacts our daily lives through local entities like police, parks, transportation, business, industry, libraries and housing.
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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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The Disappearing Aral Sea
Grade Range: 6-12
Human activity has reshaped the face of Earth in dramatic, and often unintended, ways. In this visualization adapted from NASA, satellite images show how water diverted from the Aral Sea for agriculture has caused the land-locked lake to shrink considerably over a short period of time. In just 30 years, this lake has lost more than 60 percent of its water. Barring change, the Aral Sea may disappear entirely by 2020.
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