Top Strategies for Transforming Professional Development
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This Week's Featured Resources:
Family Literacy Bags
Grades PreK-1
Go on an animal reading adventure! Teachers can support reading together at home with Reading Rockets family literacy bags, designed to encourage hands-on fun and learning centered around paired fiction and nonfiction books. A Bed for the Winter explores homes different animals find for winter.Learn More
Labor Day
Grades K-4
Learn the history of Labor Day in this quick video. Take your students on a look back to the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of Labor Day in 1894 to honor the unions who fought for the rights of the working class.Learn More
Hispanic Heritage Month
Grades K-4
There are approximately 54 million Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. That's a lot of people to celebrate! Across the country, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated with festivals and community events recognizing the contributions of Hispanics and Latinos in the United States.Learn More
Free PD That Fits YOUR Needs
Professional Development
Iowa Public Television can help your educators use multimedia resources including mobile, audio, video, and interactive whiteboard resources. Our resources come from programs, internet, video and more!Email an Educational Outreach Specialist
Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride
Grades 3-12
This interactive roller coaster ride illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows how energy is transformed back and forth between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.Learn More
Ancient Math & Music
Grades 6-12
Explore how Pythagoras and Plato found mathematics in music and nature in this video from NOVA: The Great Math Mystery. The ancient Greeks identified three pleasing musical intervals: an octave, a fifth, and a fourth. Pythagoras discovered that the beautiful musical relationship between the notes was also a mathematical relationship: the harmonious sounds are produced by vibrating strings with particular ratios of string length. Learn More
Coral Anatomy
Grades 9-10
Explore this unit on coral anatomy from The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation with three lessons that target functionality and anatomical structure of coral polyps. Students will watch videos, use an online interactive and complete worksheets to better understand the structure and functions of a coral polyp.Learn More
Civil War Music
Grades 6-9, 11-12
This activity shows students how music was used extensively during the Civil War to rally troops and the public, both in the North and South.
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