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Resources for Media Specialists
DECEMBER 6 - 13
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 PBS LearningMedia: Search, Save, and Share Educational Resources
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
PBS LearningMedia is a digital library from IPTV and PBS designed for educators to engage students in media-rich learning environments with videos, audio clips, interactives, lesson plans, and more.
The service is free, and it's extremely easy to sign up for an account. If you have questions on how to use the service, IPTV has created some videos on how to search for and save resources on the new service and how to share resources with your students on your very own class page.
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 Great Performances
Grades 9-12
Great Performances provides a place for the world's leading performing artists on the world's biggest media stages - both on air and online. From classical concerts to popular song, opera to musical theater, and dance to drama, the series raises the curtain on a new season of excellence from arts of every variety.  |
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the.News
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
the.News is a place for teens to find out about people, places and things close to home and around the world. Watch the videos and follow the links for more information. Using journalism and technology, the.News provides educators with content-specific tools while also helping them meet the civic mission of schools.
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NOVA: Extreme Cave Diving
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Follow a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes--underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when the sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today.
The interdisciplinary team of biologists, climatologists, and anthropologists discover intriguing evidence of the earliest human inhabitants of the islands, find animals seen nowhere else on Earth, and recover a remarkable record of the planet's climate.
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WordGirl Word of the MonthGrade Range: K-2, 3-5
A new two-part special featuring the voice of Jane Lynch, as Miss Power, premieres February 20 on IPTV. WordGirl must battle an ultimate super-villian from outer space. WordGirl introduces new vocabulary words that are carefully interwoven in each story. |
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Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story - Web Karaoke
Grade Range: 6-8
Create a poem that becomes the lyrics to a song in this interactive karaoke activity. Type in the lines of your poem, listen to the melody while singing along, then print your song.
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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.
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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Cave People of the Himalayas
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
An archaeologist dangles from a rope spanning a cliff that is 800-feet tall. A dark cave opening looms 700-feet below and the only way inside is to rappel down from above. Dr. Mark Aldenerfer, self-proclaimed landlubber, is not happy performing aerial acrobatics, but he's doing it for science, while seven-time Everest climber, Pete Athans, belays him. Set within the world's highest mountains, they're on a mission to find ancient mummies and uncover secrets that have been hidden in these cliff-top graves for thousands of years.
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Electric Company: Manny's Word Mangler
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Help your struggling students build phonemic awareness and strengthen word use.
This new interactive from Electric Company is a fun, think-fast word-building game in which players piece together parts of words that have been transformed into new and different words.
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