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Fall ECE Conference

Andrew Stanford and Aidan Zingler presented at the Creston Fall ECE Conference about Iowa Public Television's educational resources. The focus was on early childhood math and literacy, and participants learned about new ways they can engage young children in math and literacy. They covered PBS Kids shows, PBS Kids Lab, PBS Kids Apps, PBS Learning Media, Raising Readers, Math Adventures, Electric Company Curriculum, Virtual Pre-K, and Martha Speaks Reading Buddies. See iptv.org/classroom and Ready for School for more information about these resources.

This Week's Featured Resources:

Fire Safety

Grades PreK-12

Fire can be our friend or it can be our enemy. When used properly fire is an excellent tool, but there are many dangers. Learn how to be safe around fire. This video includes many supplemental learning tools including activities, handouts, and lessons. Learn More

Match It: Colors

Grades K-2

This interactive gives students a chance to learn the Spanish vocabulary words for the colors seen in the "The Red Balloon" webisode. First, they can roll their mouse over different images on the screen to learn the Spanish names. Next, two rows of five cards appear - the first row with images, the second row with Spanish vocabulary words. The goal is to match the five images to the correct words as quickly as possible before time runs out. Learn More

Rivers

Grades 4-6

This video segment takes you down Idaho's Snake River as it explains river formation, use, and terminology. What is an inner and outer bank, an oxbow, a meander and what makes rapids, are some of the questions that will be answered. Learn More

Rotations and Dilation

Grade 8

In this video from KCPT, watch an animated demonstration of rotating and dilating a triangle on the coordinate plane. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video; draw rotations and dilations of a triangle; and identify center of rotation, angle of rotation, and scale factors in classmates' drawings. To get the most from the lesson, students should be comfortable graphing points on the coordinate plane and reproducing a drawing of a geometric shape at a different scale. Prior exposure to rotation and dilation is helpful. Learn More

Cow Power

Grades 6-13+

Reporter Stacey Delikat digs deep to investigate how one Vermont farm is using cow manure to lower its energy bills. In this segment, discover how cow manure can be an efficient and effective way to generate sustainable energy and provide economic stability to farming operations. Investigate the effect of the carbon cycle on the environment and review the chemical nature of methane. Learn More

How are you using IPTV and PBS resources as a teaching and learning tool? E-mail one of our Educational Outreach Specialists with examples of how your students are benefiting from them. We may feature you in a future newsletter or on social media!

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