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Video
Lincoln Announces Freedom
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
On September 22, 1862, Lincoln promised to sign an Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's Day. "All persons," Lincoln wrote, "held as slaves within any State in rebellion shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." But abolitionists were unsure whether he would keep his promise. Watch this clip from American Experience. |
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2012 Teacher Innovator Awards
Grade Range: K-12
Are you an innovator in the classroom? Sign up for the 2012 Teacher Innovator Awards to share your ideas and be recognized for your innovations. This contest is for all PreK-12 teachers, media specialists, technology coordinators and homeschool educators who use digital media to enhance student learning.
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Program
Inside the Mega-Storm
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
This NOVA program airs November 21 on IPTV. Watch as hurricane Sandy unfolds, and explore what made it so much more devastating than other hurricanes.
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ICN Session
Mandatory Reporter Session
Professional Development
You can earn your certificate for Mandatory Reporter Training for suspected child and dependent adult abuse through Iowa Public Television for free by signing up for the session through the ICN.
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Video
Designing Apps
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
With this episode of SciGirls, students learn the process of how to design apps and games. Additionally, students build skills developing their creativity and ingenuity.
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Program
The Dust Bowl: A New Film by Ken Burns
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
This new film by Ken Burns airs on IPTV, November 18 and 19. The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that--throughout the 1930s--destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world.
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Audio Interactive
Tour the Tongue
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
How does our sense of taste work and why did it evolve? What are taste buds and how do they register the five basic sensations of sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami? In this audio interactive, Danielle Reed of the Monell Chemical Senses Center offers a primer on what happens on your tongue, and in your brain, as you eat.
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Video
Cooking With Bill Nye
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Watch Bill Nye boil water. Really. In the process, you may learn something about energy conservation that comes in handy next time you make pasta.
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Video Timeline
Inside the Meltdown
Grade Range: 9-12
Put the financial crisis of 2008 into historical context with this video timeline from FRONTLINE.
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Interactive
Cyberchase Interactive Whiteboard Game
Grade Range: 3-5
Designed for grades 3-5, the Cyberchase "Lucky Star Game Show" challenges kids to compete for top scores while building important math skills. The application is easy to use, and engages kids in algebraic thinking, geometry, measurement, and more.
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