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Planning PD for Next Year?
Many schools are planning professional development for next year and are choosing training from IPTV as a top priority. To learn about this free opportunity which covers all grades and content areas, contact your local education station.
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This Week's Featured Resources:
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Sight Words
Grades K-3
The Electric Company aims to entertain children while simultaneously teaching crucial areas of literacy that are challenging for struggling readers. This compilation of
clips from
The Electric Company focuses on common question words, prepositions and pronouns.
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Simple and Compound Sentences
Grades 1-5
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so. This resource includes additional support materials.
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Full-Time Kid | Multiplication Trick
Grades 2-5
Learn your nine times tables in just a few minutes with Mya, the Full-Time Kid!
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Nutrition: What Your Body Needs
Grades 5-8
In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch videos that explore why some foods are healthy and others unhealthy, outline the process our body uses to break down foods into forms it can use, and explain the role nutrition can play in managing diseases, including diabetes. Students develop their literacy skills through a science-based focus on personal health and the importance of making good food choices. During this process, they read informational text, learn and practice vocabulary words and explore content through videos and interactive activities.
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Forecasting Earthquakes
Grades 6-12
Find out how researchers are improving earthquake forecasts in this video from NOVA scienceNOW: "What's the Next Big Thing?" Correspondent Kirk Wolfinger meets with geophysicist Ernest Majer, who demonstrates how his team measures seismic signals that could serve as a possible warning sign for earthquakes. Thomas Jordan, of the Southern California Earthquake Center, describes how hundreds of scientists have joined forces to produce a comprehensive earthquake forecast for California that estimates earthquake sizes, locations, and frequency. A computer simulation illustrates how tremors would propagate from the San Andreas fault across Southern California, showing which communities are most at risk. This resource includes literacy extensions.
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Nepal Devastated by Deadly Earthquake
Grades 7-12
Hear the latest updates from the site of an earthquake in Nepal with this video and educational resources from
PBS NewsHour.
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Nixon's Silent Majority Speech
Grades 9-12
Hear Richard Nixon's famous "Silent Majority" speech from November 3, 1969 in which he paints a picture of two groups of Americans: "a vocal minority," who try to impose their point of view through protest, and the "great silent majority," made up of realist, working class Americans.
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Last Days in Vietnam: A Moral Dilemma
Grades 9-12
Explore the moral dilemmas facing both U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon in April 1975 in this video adapted from Last Days in Vietnam: American Experience. According to some of the 6,000 or so U.S. personnel remaining in South Vietnam, it was clear that the U.S. Embassy needed to plan for an evacuation of American personnel and the hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese who had worked closely with the U.S. during the war. Cross curricular
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