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Web Resource
Eight Great Ways to Save and Share Resources
Professional Development
Looking for ways to save the content you find online. Check out our list of tools that can help you find and save educational content now, so you can find it quickly and easily when you need it.
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Web Resource/Video
American Experience Website
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The American Experience website allows you to watch full films online, download teacher guides, and go behind the scenes to enrich your students' learning. Learn how to navigate the site through IPTV.
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Interactive (requires Flash)
Math in Music
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
Choose from different instrumental samples and electronic drum tracks to create a new track and figure out the correct tempo in beats per minute.
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Interactive
Eye on Idioms
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
Eye on Idioms can be used to engage students in a study of seven idioms. After viewing the literal representation of each idiom, students are asked to complete the sentence by selecting the correct idiom from the list, then explain the metaphorical meaning.
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Interactive (requires Flash)
Acid Lake Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
This interactive activity introduces acid rain - how it affects aquatic ecosystems, the difference between acid rain and normal rain, and how certain species, as well as entire ecosystems, react to emissions from industrial and other man-made sources of pollution that can cause acid rain. The activity also explains the pH scale and how it is used to measure acidity.
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Web Resource/Video
FRONTLINE Website
Grade Range: 9-12
IPTV has aggregated a wide-ranging list of resources to help you find the best educational content from the public affairs documentary series FRONTLINE.
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News Item
Scholarships Now Available to Middle School Science Teachers
Professional Development
Iowa Public Television is looking for middle school science teachers interested in a free online course. Iowa middle school science teachers have the opportunity to take the course, Global Climate Change Education, and earn graduate credit or AEA PD Online credit.
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Video
Navigating PBS LearningMedia
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
IPTV has developed these YouTube videos that will guide you through the steps of searching for, saving, and sharing content you find on PBS LearningMedia.
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Interactive (requires Flash)
A Literary Timeline
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The Literary Timeline presents a broad overview of the concurrent lifetimes of major authors during the two hundred year period between 1800 and 2000. As you scroll through the Timeline, click on a name for more information about that author and his or her major works. This could be a great way to introduce students to authors to get them interested in outside reading projects.
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Interactive (requires Flash)
 Build a Bridge
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Four open spans need bridges. You've just been put in charge of deciding which type of bridge is best for each of those four spans. Are you up to the task? Let's find out.
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