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 Not only can you connect with IPTV through our online presence with Facebook, Twitter, and email, but you can also connect with us through conferences and professional development sessions. This month, you can find IPTV at the ICSS Social Studies Conference, ISTS Science Conference, IAEYC, ITEC, and more. We can also come out to your school to provide you and your colleagues with ways to search for and access free public media resources. Contact us at educational_resources@iptv.org. |
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Video
Hiding a Disability Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The majority of the country did not know President Roosevelt was handicapped. "When he met Orson Welles, he said, 'Orson, you and I are the two best actors in America,'" says biographer Hugh Gallagher. "And he was right." Use this video as a jumping off point for an essay asking students if a president with a disability today could get elected.
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Video
The Dust Bowl: What Have We Learned?
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
What lessons have we learned after the Dust Bowl? This video clip explores this question and focuses on America's future.
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Video
Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The waterway's ecosystems come to life inside these massive aquariums. Whether it's the enormous catfish in the freshwater tank, or the sharks and rays inside the two-story saltwater aquarium, the aquarium is a lesson in environmental science that anyone can appreciate.
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Interactive
Surface Area of a Sphere
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
In this interactive, students learn how to calculate the surface area of a sphere and apply the formula in different practice problems.
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Video
10ths and Decimals Grade Range: 3-5
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker has ripped out a piece of train track, and the Cybersquad must use what they know about fractions, measurement, and decimals to find a way to repair the track. Students will learn numbers and operations in base ten sequences and understand the place value system.
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Web Resource
A Picture Worth 1000 Words Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Whether you find a photo or artwork in the attic or at a rummage sale, how do you know what you have? You don't have to be an expert to undertake a basic investigation. Just follow these steps to get started.
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ICN Session
Meet an Astronaut!
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Born and raised near Mt. Ayr, Iowa, Dr. Peggy Whitson completed two six-month tours of duty aboard the International Space Station and was the first female commander of the orbiting science laboratory. Meet her this Friday via the ICN, but be sure to sign up soon, registration closes Wednesday.
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Interactive
Questioning Cube Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
The Questioning Cube Game is designed to help elementary school students gain reading comprehension competencies. In the game students practice asking questions about short stories or passages of expository prose. The practice of generating and answering their own questions before, during and after reading, helps students actively create solid mental connections.
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Video
Lightning!
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
It's an awe-inspiring display of nature: A storm cloud builds, dark and ominous, then releases energy in fiery bolts of lightning and raucous waves of thunder. This video segment, adapted from NOVA, goes beyond the visual and sonic thrill of lightning strikes to illustrate and describe the physics behind electrical storms.
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Interactive
Line Break Explorer Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Learning poetry's special characteristics to help students understand, appreciate, and compose poetry. One defining characteristic of poetry is the use of line breaks to create rhythm and rhyme, suggest meaning, and produce a particular appearance. "The Line Break Explorer" engages students in exploring a poem and hypothesizing why lines are broken where they are in poetry
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Activities
Martha Speaks: Parent Child Activities
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
These activities are for adults to do with a kid or group of kids. They are simple, fun, and engaging ways to use Martha's favorite words in everyday life.
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