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April 9, 2014 - April 15, 2014

Find the latest educational resources from Iowa Public Television.

Iowa's Own Makes it as a Digital Innovator
Grade Range: All

Leslie Pralle Keehn is a currently a technology integration consultant for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency out of Blairsburg, Iowa, and previously taught 6-12 grade social studies and computer. She became passionate about using technology very early in her social studies classroom after receiving a grant to buy a Nintendo Wii for her classroom. She is passionate about gamification, blended learning, global connections, and student creation and collaboration beyond the classroom walls.

A 2011 C-SPAN Educator Fellow, Leslie was also named the 2012 Iowa Council for the Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Leslie's work now focuses on meaningful technology integration in all classrooms, empowering children to share their voice with the world, and using technology to create deep, global learning opportunities through project based learning, the maker movement, and authentic work.

She has a BA in Political Science and a MA in Curriculum & Instruction: Technology. Her favorite part of her job is helping students digitally publish their work and receive comments from a global audience. Leslie's favorite PBS LearningMedia resources are the "Building Blocks" video collection for PK-2 about Social Studies, especially the video entitled "The White House." Anytime she can use multimedia to help support Social Studies in elementary she gets excited!

IPTV announces the Teacher Training Institute

Grades: Adult Learning

IPTV is excited to announce their first Teacher Training Institute. IPTV has recruited Master Teachers that are partnering with IPTV in creating model lessons that are cross curricular with STEM components. These model lessons will be presented in June at a hands-on training that will provide learning and networking opportunities for educators across the state.

IPTV Tests out new Market to Market Feature
Grades: 9-12

IPTV is working on developing curriculum resources that connect with agriculture, STEM, social studies, language arts and other subjects. These resources are closely tied to and reflect the well known and loved program Market to Market.

Iowa Public Television is excited to announce the preview release of the very first modules of this project. We would like to invite you to be among the first to view the first modules and provide your feedback as we refine the first draft modules and plan additional ones.

Once you have reviewed the site we ask that you complete a short survey and provide your feedback about the site and how you might use it in your classroom. This survey can be found at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mtomclassroom

Please let us know if you have any questions about this project, the site, or the survey. Thank you again for your support of this project.

Lesson Guide | The Address
Grades: 7-13+

This lesson presents activities that help students gain a deeper understanding of the rich concepts and meaning in the Gettysburg Address, as well as its historical significance. Students then take this knowledge into the memorization activity to enhance their memorization experience. The lesson addresses many of the Common Core standards of Literacy in History/Social Studies, Reading Informational text as well as Speaking and Listening.

Civil War Overview

Grades: 7-13+

In this short history of the Civil War, we're given a look at the months leading up to November 1863, when Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gerrysburg Address. This synopsis paints a gritty picture of the war, and of Lincoln's inspiring words that redefined the Union's fight as a battle of human equality.

The Gettysburg Address

Grade Range: 6-12

This clip from Lincoln@Gettsyburg focuses on President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, explaining the meaning of the Address line by line. At an especially important time in United States history, and in just 272 words, Lincoln's Address defined the meaning of democracy, providing an ideal for which to strive.

Abraham Lincoln, Attorney at Law

Grade Range: 1-12

In this video segment excerpted from the PBS series Looking for Lincoln, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin examine Lincoln's years as a "prairie" lawyer on the Illinois circuit, and discuss how they honed and polished Lincoln's confidence, sense of fairness, and social skills.

Buoyancy Brainteasers: Buoyancy Question

Grade Range: 3-8

What will it take to make a floating toy sub sink to the bottom of a bathtub? Put your understanding of the factors that influence an object's buoyancy to the test in this interactive brainteaser from the NOVA web site.

Erosion and Weathering

Grade Range: K-8

Weathering and erosion work together as destructive natural forces. Their by-products -- sediments -- are subsequently deposited to produce characteristic landforms such as dunes, deltas, and glacial moraines. The images in this still collage depict surface features that result from these powerful processes, as well as measures designed to mitigate their unwanted effects.

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