Kirsten Lepore is an artist and filmmaker who works with different animation techniques, including stop-motion animation and claymation. With these videos, learn more about the intentions behind her food-focused film, the unusual materials she works with to create her projects, and why she loves the laborious process of stop-motion animation. Lepore also demonstrates the basics of shooting a stop-motion animation film. Learn More

Enroll in a PBS TeacherLine facilitated course from August 18, 2014 through September 19, 2014, and you will automatically be entered to win a FREE in-person PD training for your entire school. During the half-day event, you and your colleagues will explore how to:

• Inspire your students' curiosity and expand their content knowledge with the use of blended learning and flipped classroom strategies
• Incorporate high-quality, standards aligned digital content
• Integrate digital tools such as PBS LearningMedia, the go-to destination for digital resources that can help bring innovation to your classroom

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This scene in the 2009 MASTERPIECE version of Emily Bront�'s Wuthering Heights skillfully sets up not only the plot and characters (the rugged Heathcliff and the innocent Catherine Linton), but a distinct time and place: the Yorkshire moors. Catherine is unaware of the circumstances surrounding her mother's passionate relationship with Heathcliff and the dangers of the moors themselves. To emphasize this, she is shown in a simple white dress, skipping happily down the lane. Suddenly, as the music changes, Heathcliff looms above her on horseback. Catherine is about to be introduced to a more sinister reality-and to Wuthering Heights itself. Learn More

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