IPTV participated in the annual Cedar Valley STEM Festival in Waterloo on November 13. Angela Hiatt worked the booth and handed out over 1000 free app codes to families and teachers in Iowa. More than 3000 people attended and enjoyed seeing all the STEM offerings that schools, organizations and venues offered free for families. 

In this resource students learn about Chinese culture and the concept of greater than and less than. After watching a student performance of a Chinese song and dance students are taught the difference between locomotor and nonlocomotor motions. Students are asked to pay close attention to the number of musicians and dancers and apply the concept of greater than and less than. Learn More

Meet Wilson and Ditch, two funny, energetic and talkative gopher brothers, who are in a van - an eco-powered one - and driving around America. Wilson, the older brother, loves learning and teaching facts and reading about each new locale they travel to. He always drives the van while Ditch, the younger more fun-seeking brother who loves to relax and eat, is the permanent passenger. These gopher brothers drive from city to city as tourists who learn the history ("actual facts" as Wilson calls them), and fun facts of every new location. The brothers also love experiencing the usual touristy stuff as well as the really unusual, obscure, and sometimes just weird sites each city has to offer. Join Wilson and Ditch and DIG AMERICA with them! Learn More

Kindergarten teacher Allison Fermetta demonstrates how she builds students background knowledge about key math concepts to maximize what they will learn when playing an online game. She models techniques for using the interactive whiteboard to equip all students with the information and skills they need to achieve the educational goals when they play the game. Learn More

News Quiz is a 15-minute current events program. The program consists of news segments; a current events quiz; letters to News Quiz; and Earth Trek, Our Great State, and FYI segments. The program features several different segments: news, a current events quiz, letters to News Quiz, Earth Trek, Our Great State, and FYI. Learn More

Experts trace the history of geography from clay tablets during Babylonian times to mapmaking from horseback in the 1800s to digital maps produced by computers in the 60sin this video from Penn State Public Broadcasting's Geospatial Revolution project. Jack Dangermond, the co-founder of a Geographic Information Systems and mapping software company, notes that digital geography has enabled people to think about geography in abstract ways using databases and visualization. Learn More

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