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Iowa's Leslie Keehn Showcases the Honor of Being a PBS Digital Innovator

Leslie Pralle Keehn is currently a technology integration consultant for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency out of Blairsburg, Iowa, and previously taught 6-12 grade Social Studies and computer. She became passionate about using technology very early in her social studies classroom after receiving a grant to buy a Nintendo Wii for her classroom. She is passionate about gamification, blended learning, global connections, and student creation and collaboration beyond the classroom walls. Learn more about Keehn's experience.

This Week's Featured Resources:

Odd Squad Provides Learning Opportunities for Children

This child has fallen in love with the new program Odd Squad and enjoys playing the games, which correlate with the show. Pictured is a game where students work on measurement, number operations and geometry. This child enjoys playing this game at school, but also at home. To learn more about resources that Odd Squad provides, visit the Odd Squad site.

Who, What, Where

Grades 1-4

In this video segment from Jakers!, we learn that it is fun to create stories to share with others. A good story includes who the story is about, what it is about and where it takes place. A storyteller can create any story with these building blocks. As readers, when we can identify these elements in a story, we can better interpret, understand and respond to it. Additionally, as an extra way to make a story entertaining, we can tell it in different ways, such as through a rap. Learn More

Bees

Grades 3-8

This video segment from WILD TV offers a daring look at bees, an often misunderstood insect. Mace Vaughan, an entomologist or expert on insects, teaches us about how bees swarm, the jobs of the queen and worker bees, how bees communicate with each other, and how the colony survives. Once you are instructed on how to move and act around bees, you won't be stung. In fact, this video shows bees swarming on a man's face. It is called a bee beard. Learn More

Pythagoras Puzzler

Grade 8

In this video, visualize a proof to the Pythagorean theorem as Cindy solves a right triangle puzzle at the National Museum of Mathematics. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explain the Pythagorean theorem in their own words using student-created visuals as a guide. Learn More

Sacred Journeys

Grades 8-12

Bring concepts in comparative religion and geography to life in this collection of media resources from Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler. Follow the author and adventurer as he travels to the sites of six historic pilgrimages: Varanasi, India (Hinduism); the island of Shikoku, Japan (Buddhism); Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia (Islam); Jerusalem, Israel (Judaism, Islam, Christianity); Lourdes, France (Christianity); and Osogbo, Nigeria (Yoruba). The resources align with national standards and invite students to compare and contrast the core beliefs and practices of a variety of world religions. Discover how these religions influence social structures, and learn about multiple cultures against the framework of comparative religion. Learn More

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