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Resources for Elementary Teachers
September 13 - 19, 2011
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IPTV is pleased to bring you our weekly eNewsletter that highlights some of our many high-quality educational resources, programs, and ICN sessions available. This week we're focusing on ways to help make your teaching relevant to your students' lives by connecting the classroom to the larger, 21st century world.
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Educational Resources
| PBS LearningMedia Focus: Gravity
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 PBS LearningMedia offers a huge amount of videos, interactives, and multimedia pieces on all things gravity. From envisioning the hypothetical scenario of a person falling into a hole through the center of the Earth to interacting with Galileo's experiments, your students will come to better understand and explain this universal force. Learn More >> |
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| PBS LearningMedia Focus: Paragraph Development
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Through these PBS LearningMedia resources, help your students better understand the often difficult process to academic writing. From using graphic organizers to arrange and see their thoughts and ideas to creating a meaningful hypothesis for any number of subjects, these resources will help your students form better ideas and more deeply understand their writing. Learn More >> |
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News and EventsTeach Kids About the Benefits of Healthy Eating Grade Range: PreK-2, 3-5 K-6 teachers, home school, and after school programs can win $500, $750, even $1,000 for their classroom by entering the Play With Your Produce Classroom Challenge. Teachers and their classes are challenged to keep a weekly eating log and complete a lesson plan that teaches kids about healthy eating habits. Learn More >>
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Featured Television Programs
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History Detectives
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
History is much more than just memorizing facts and knowing dates. With the new season of History Detectives, students will see that history is about questioning, research, and discovery. History Detectives also offers resources to enhance your lessons.
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|  | A New Season of Assignment the World
Grade Range 3-5, 6-8, The weekly news programs targeted at students grades 4-8 begins its new season. A fast-paced, interactive program, Assignment the World, covers the top news stories of the week and helps its viewers understand the world around them by examining the events in other countries. Episodes are available to download as well. Learn More >> |
IPTV Education broadcasts overnight on Mediacom cable. Click here for a full schedule of our educational programs. If you are unable to record an episode you see on IPTV, contact your AEA for copies of programs that allow for duplication.
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Register today for these ICN sessions, at no charge to you or your school, to network your students with other learners throughout the state.
Arthur's Sleepover
Grade Range: 1-3
Everyone loves a sleepover. Join IPTV for this exciting ICN session where we will engage your students through interdisciplinary activities designed to foster learning: pack suitcases with sleepover words, read Arthur's Sleepover, and vote on your favorite book genre.
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Munch My Math
Grade Level: 1-4
In this hands-on ICN session, presenters lead students in a variety of edible math activities. Students will create bar graphs representing their favorite brand of cereal, build an abacus, and create their own math equations, while having the chance to eat their work! The session provides excellent opportunities for estimating, sorting, comparing, adding, subtracting, and finding patterns.
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Can't make it to any of these sessions? Take a look at IPTV's ICN events calendar to schedule your next opportunity.
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