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Today is National Agriculture Day!
Search
PBS LearningMedia
for a resource for your students that promotes an understanding and appreciation for all the ways agriculture plays a part in our lives. If you teach secondary students, be sure to check out
Market to Market Classroom
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This Week's Featured Resources:
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Music Learning Theory
Teachers
Music teacher, Natalia Sigmund, believes music can help children socially, emotionally and even academically. She believes the secret to learning music successfully lies in the way the student is taught. Sigmund, who also runs the award-winning after school chorus "Music Makers," abides by a music learning theory developed by Dr. Edwin Gordon. In this video, her students demonstrate that there is a close parallel between the way individuals learn music and language.
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Arthur's World Neighborhood
Grades PreK-4
Help kids explore cultural diversity within their own community and around the world, with this guide from Arthur.
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Pteranodon Fishing
Grades K-3
This Dinosaur Train fishing game teaches students about counting and the value of teamwork. Help Tiny spot the fish as they near the surface and then practice counting your feast!
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Music Video: Reading with Feeling
Grades K-5
The Burnham Brothers sing "Reading with Feeling," a song explaining the importance of reading with the feelings ascribed to the characters and events. This resource teaches reading techniques and fluency.
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Label Reading Part 1
Grades 2-6
This video helps people of all ages read nutrition labels correctly. Pat Mizerak, registered dietitian at United Health Services, points out important things on a label such as serving size and calories because the two directly affect each other. She also notes bad things we don't want to see high amounts of, such as saturated fat and sodium, and the good things that we do want to see a lot of such as calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C and iron.
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Inspector Detector Challenge
Grades 3-8
People love treasure hunts. But in this one, kids are looking for something invisible! In this video from
Design Squad Nation
, kids design and build magnetic-field detectors and use them to find hidden magnets. As they build their detectors, the kids use the engineering design process, apply a variety of science concepts (e.g. force, magnetic fields, mapping) and learn how a planet's or moon's magnetic field gives NASA scientists insights into its structure and formation. Make sure to look at the provided support materials to access the literacy
extension
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The Five Elements of Dance
Grades 6-12
In this video, learn the five elements that all forms of dance and creative movement have in common. How fluent are you in the language of dance? Being able to identify and understand these core characteristics can help you discuss a dance performance or to get your own messages across through movement.
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Trouble at Grainly Farms
Grades 7-12
Can your students identify and solve the problem at Grainly Farms? This interactive case study incorporates scientific concepts such as natural selection, adaptation, inheritance of traits, integrated pest management and nematodes. As students work through each page of the online module, they receive new information about the situation to help them solve the problem. Students view and analyze videos and documents, and discuss the implications before new information is provided. Students apply their understanding of scientific concepts and suggest a plan to deal with the trouble at Grainly Farms.
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Fort Peck Dam: Building the Dam
Grades 9-12
Employing more than ten thousand workers, the Fort Peck Dam slowly took shape in the dusty plains of eastern Montana. The Army Corps of Engineers would tame the Missouri River with a largely untrained work force who utilized a hydraulic fill to pump water, mud and shale over seven miles to the dam site. Electric lines were built to bring power to the pumps from Great Falls, located three hundred miles away. Railroad was built to bring millions of tons of rock and supplies to the dam site. Construction was divided into three parts simultaneously under construction: the dam, the spillway and the tunnels that connected the two. Make sure to click on the supported resources to access the STEM activity and literacy extension.
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