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Resources for Media Specialists and Librarians
September 20 - 27, 2011
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IPTV is pleased to bring you our weekly eNewsletter that highlights some of our many educational resources, programs, and ICN sessions available. This week, we're promoting some of the resources that tie to standards and align to curriculum, providing a common base for planning and helping you measure student achievement.
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Educational Resources
PBS LearningMedia: Common Core and National Curriculum Standards
 Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Many of the resources from PBS LearningMedia are now aligned to the Common Core and national curriculum standards. Whether you're designing curriculum or wanting to ensure you students are proficient in a particular skill or concept, PBS LearningMedia will help you engage your learners to think, examine, and create.
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| Explore Iowa History
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Iowa Pathways is now the home for the online teacher's guide for the revised 3rd edition of the Iowa Past to Present textbook, published by University of Iowa Press. The teacher's guide includes additional articles, videos, links, and curriculum resources supporting each chapter of the textbook. Learn More >> | 
| Sid's Science Fair App
Grade Range: PreK-2 With the brand new Sid the Science Kid app for iOS devices, you can engage children in experiential learning with core science and math concepts from classification and identifying patterns to charting and sequencing. Learn More >> |
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Featured Television Programs
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NOVA: Surviving the Tsunami
Grade Range: 9-12
This episode shares the gripping personal stories from Japanese survivors right after the terrible March earthquake last spring. The program provides unique lessons in how we should all act in the face of life-threatening disasters.
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20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Highlighting the significant developments in science, art, politics, technology, and popular culture, 20th Century Turning Points provides a clear overview of the people and events that distinguished the twentieth century.
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|  | National Gallery of Art
Grade Range 6-8, 9-12 IPTV helps to bring the best of the National Gallery of Art to you and your students. Meet national standards in the visual for middle and high school students by examining a wide variety of artists, subjects, techniques, and styles. 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.
Reading with a Firefighter
Grade Range: K-4
K-12 Connections is once again offering a series of career-related ICN events called Reading with... for students grades K-4. During this session, join an Urbandale firefighter. He shares the day-in-the-life of a firefighter. Using a story, video, and some of the tools of the trade, he will address a range of topics, including fire prevention tips and ways of keeping kids safe.
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Martha Speaks: The Bippity Bop Barbershop
Grade Range: K-2
This ICN session is based on the Reading Buddies Program for Martha Speaks. If you have a buddies system in your school we invite you to bring them to the session together. The content will be aimed for children in grades K-2. Each week we will watch a 13 minute episode of Martha Speaks, play a game, read a story, and write a short journal entry: all based on chosen vocabulary words.
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Career Day: Becoming an Architect
Grade Range: 9-12
Students interested in art, design, engineering, or architecture should join this session to learn about the skills, backgrounds, and qualifications needed to succeed as an architect. As your students will learn, an architects job goes beyond just designing houses or buildings. During this session students will have the opportunity to meet a licensed Iowa architect and learn what they currently should be doing to prepare for a career path in architecture.
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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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