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IPTV Connects with Families and Educators at Literacy Night

At the Family Literacy Night at North Hill Elementary in Burlington families learned firsthand about the new PBSKIDS YouTube channel. They also enjoyed learning about the many literacy and math games for children ages 3-8 that can be found at PBS Kids Lab.

This Week's Featured Resources:

Curious George: Build a Wall

Grades PreK-1

In the video Keep Out Cows, Curious George tries to build a wall to keep the cows from munching on a flowerbed. He uses newspapers attached to a clothesline, but will they be strong enough to keep Leslie Cow and her friends away? Students explore various building materials as they plan, construct, and then test out their own walls. Learn More

News Quiz: January 29, 2015

Grades 4-8

News Quiz is a weekly 15-minute current events program for grades 4-8. The program consists of news segments; a current events quiz; letters to News Quiz; and Earth Trek, Our Great State and FYI segments. This episode of News Quiz features the State of the Union, Cuba talks, Wendell Ford, refugee schools, STEM for girls, football and more. Learn More

Ecosystem Explorer

Grades 5-10

Inspired by content from the PBS series EARTH A New Wild, the Ecosystem Explorer is a collection of videos, games and infographics designed to take students deep into the ecosystems of three thrilling animals: vultures, wolves, and sharks. Use the related videos to introduce each ecosystem and discover that the relationship between animals and humans is often much more complicated than we realize. Then, encourage students to play through the interactive and discover more exciting science about the ecology and conservation of these three worlds. Learn More

Westward Expansion: A Systems Approach to History

Grades 8-12

Examine how to apply systems thinking to social sciences, by looking at maps of westward expansion in the U.S. in the 1800s. This resource incorporates systems literacy tools such as trend graphs and causal loop diagrams to analyze how various parts of this historical system affected each other. Learn More

A Raisin in the Sun Revisited: Introduction

Grades 6-12

This clip from A Raisin in the Sun Revisited, introduces three potent plays, A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, and Beneatha's Place, showing how these three plays all advance the discussion of race in America and alluding to how issues surrounding race in America both have and have not changed since A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959. Clybourne Park and Beneatha's Place were performed in repertory as The Raisin Cycle at Baltimore's Center Stage in the spring of 2013. Learn More

How are you using IPTV and PBS resources as a teaching and learning tool? Email 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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