PBS and KNPB are offering you an exiting new service that may help you make that connection. LearningMedia is a free free service with over 14,000 learning objects: short focused videos, website activities, lesson plans, etc. that you now have access to. 

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� Click here to go to the KNPB LearningMedia website and begin exploring! 

  

	Video streaming with a purpose:
	Are you finished discussing Columbus and Magellan. Want to make your students sit up and listen. Then show them this video about the Chinese discovering America before Christopher Columbus. Use the video to engage your students in critical watching! What is the evidence? Does it stand up? Should we be celebrating Zheng He day?  Click here to watch this video and learn more about this theory!

	Interactive Websites:
	Doing a math lesson on velocity or angle and want to connect it to the real world. Try this catapult game. Does it help to write down the range, velocity, distance, speed, etc.? Who can get the high score in your class? (I couldn't even clear the 5 targets with my first 20 balloons. Can you?)  Click here to give the game a try!

	Lesson Plans:
	The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote dramatically changing the cultural and political landscape of America forever. Compared to the 1,100 page Health Care Documetn, you will find this to be refreshingly simple!  Click here to see the original document.

Talk is heating up in Nevada about one-to-one laptop programs. Watch this two minute video on how a middle and high school in Maine are transforming the learning process with technology-infused projects that benefit the community and promote high academic achievement.

 

Want to spice up a homework assignment or just bring 21st century technology into your classroom?  Are you looking for high quality informal education opportunities? watch.knpb.org is your portal to KNPB and PBS programs worth watching or old programs worth revisiting.  Here are a few selections:

• NovascienceNow: In this episode on Robot Cars, NOVAscienceNOW looks at tiny, battery-powered cars called EN-Vs can talk to each other and drive themselves. (This should peak the curiosity of your students!) 
• Wild Nevada: Travel to the Lunar Creator Volcanic Fields in this episode entitled Ghost Towns and Craters. 
• Nature: In the episode Outback Pelicans, natures investigates the Australian pelican.   
• Looking up from the Bottom: This KNPB production entitled Looking up from the Bottom looks at ways that Nevada is on the bottom and profiles people who are digging their heels in hard in an attempt to pull Nevada from the bottom to the top.
• War of 1812: America's forgotten war!  Why did we declare war on England? How badly were we outgunned? Did the Battle of New Orleans really happen after the war ended? Learn about the War of 1812 by watching this two hour special. 

Win a free KNPB DVD. These programs were produced here in Northern Nevada by KNPB Public Broadcasting and tell our story.   

 

This month we are featuring a Nevada Experience DVD called "The Reno Cure." It is the story of easy divorces and how it put Reno on the map. The first 10 people who request this DVD from joee@knpb.org will receive it for free.  

 

Congratulations to Debbie Tomburello, Sue Davis, and Michelle Joyce for collecting a Nevada Experience DVD entitled "Yin-Shan: Silver Mountain" about the Chinese experience in Nevada.