DECEMBER 2025 | Education eNewsletter, Idaho Public Television

Happy holidays and winter season! Click the Family Fun button to access PBS KIDS activities and coloring pages for some extra fun or a little calm amid the season's fast pace!

And BONUS! A fun song from our friend,

Carl the Collector!

FOR FAMILIES

PBS KIDS Celebrates the Winter Holidays! Streaming Episodes

Episode Collection

Have Some fun and take the PBS KIDS

Snowglobe Challenge!

Using materials you have at home, personalize your own snowglobe. Click the link below to find out how!

Snow Globe Challenge

FOR EDUCATORS, Pre-K to Grade 12

Take a crash course on all that PBS LearningMedia has to offer and kickstart your Spring Semester!

PBS LearningMedia is a FREE comprehensive media-on-demand digital content library that offers PreK-12 classrooms a flexible way to integrate media into daily instruction. In this live webinar, GPB Education training specialists introduce educators to PBS LearningMedia and highlight ways it can be used in the classroom during distance learning.

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.Pre-K to Grade 2.

Launch Game

Teacher Support Materials

Sled Dog Dash Game

Use this MOLLY OF DENALI digital game to extend and expand children's use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. As the children play, they learn about sleds, sled dogs, and the Alaskan environment, while using navigational and graphical features of informational text: diagrams, captions, tables, and electronic menus. Players also locate key details in the text to learn about dog care. The game, which takes about 20 minutes to play, is accessible for readers and non-readers alike.

.Grades 3-5.

PBS LearningMedia Resource

In the related activity, students will work collaboratively to make a large mosaic using cut paper. The video and discussion will take one 45-minute class session. The related art activity may take two or more class sessions depending on the finished size.

Holidays are colorful and a great time to create collages!

Artist, Cynthia Fisher explains how discovering mosaic art inspired her to leave an artistically restrictive career as an illustrator and explore new modes of expression. Fisher demonstrates how she uses the indirect method of attaching tiles to create large-scale mosaic pieces and describes her community projects in Guatemala.

.Grades 6-12.

INTERACTIVE LESSON

THE HISTORY OF CONSUMERISM

Explore how the economic growth of the 1950s ushered in a new age of consumerism in the United States and the extent to which was it enjoyed by all Americans. In this interactive lesson, students will analyze a series of 1950s print and commercial advertisements for popular consumer goods, modern amenities, housing, and automobiles, and identify some of the marketing strategies that businesses used to appeal to the American people.

NEW: Second Nature Student Reporting

Check out the new student-produced series Second Nature and learn how your students can get involved with student reporting here in Idaho.

This month, with Science Trek, learn about Birds of Prey!

Birds of prey include eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, and vultures. They are "sky hunters" and considered nature's best hunters due to specialized adaptations.

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