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Find IPTV at Your Local STEM Festival

Many STEM festivals are taking place across the state. Attend one to join in the hands-on fun and learning. While you are there, be on the lookout for the IPTV booth! Join in our hands-on activities and gather great resources to use at home and in the classroom. Check with your local STEM Hub to find out about festivals around you! 
This Week's Featured Resources:
Cups and Plates
Grades PreK-K

Daniel Tiger helps Katerina when the plates and cups fall off the table.  Together they match the shapes of the cups and plates, while enjoying an important aspect of friendship- that friends help each other.  Learn More
Using the Correct Verb Tense
Grades 3-8

Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future. Use this video and attached learning objects to teach students about this valuable skill. 
Modern Sweet Potato Family Farm
Grades 4-12

Farming today is a complex industrial coordination of crop yields , processing, packing, shipping and food safety certification. Come down to Matthews Ridgeview Farms in Wayne, Arkansas, where modern complexity has been built on basic principles of quality product and family heritage. This great resource lends itself to multiple content areas and includes a literacy extension.  Learn More
Solar Power
Grades 6-12

In this video from   NOVA's Energy Lablearn about the benefits and limitations of converting the Sun's light and heat into electricity. Animations show how two solar power technologies convert the Sun's energy into electrical energy. Solar power technologies are environmentally friendly, but there are technological challenges that limit their widespread use. For example, solar power technologies are not very efficient, they are relatively expensive and we do not yet have a good way to store solar energy.  Learn More
Student's Wheelchair Challenge Makes Texas School More Accessible
Grades 7-12

Discover how a student inspired his school district to become more accessible with this video and educational resources from  PBS NewsHour. After watching this video be sure to check out the supported materials to extend this lesson.   Learn More
Farm Families Changed by the 1980s Farm Crisis
Grades 8-12

Farmers and their families are forever changed as a result of the farm crisis. This segment is part of the The Farm Crisis documentary, which examines the tragic circumstances faced by farmers for most of the 1980s, when thousands were forced into bankruptcy, land values dropped by one-third nationally, and sky-high interest rates turned successes into failures seemingly overnight.  Learn More
180 Days: Hartsville
Grades 9-12

Experience a year of a Southern town's efforts to address the urgent demand for reform in American public schools. Watch what happens when the systems that can either fuel or diffuse that reform - bureaucracy, economic opportunity and fixed mindsets - interact and intersect.  Learn More
How are you using IPTV and PBS resources as a teaching and learning tool? Email one of our Educational Outreach Specialists with examples of how your students are benefiting from them. We may feature you in a future newsletter or on social media!

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