Featured: 1-29-2014 NOVA Education

NOVA Education is a collection of resources from the PBS science series NOVA. The purpose of the site is to bring science, technology, and engineering to life in educational settings.

 

NOVA Education’s free digital library is linked to teaching standards and includes video, audio segments, interactives, and much more. You can browse content by education topics such as Earth and space science, technology and engineering, and more. The library is also searchable by keywords.

 

You can sign up for Spark, the NOVA Education newsletter, to receive updates on new media resources for educators, upcoming NOVA programs, and on opportunities for you and your students. 

 

 

NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television. Since 1996, NOVA has been working with journalists and scientists to put great original web-content online. Thousands of resources cover everything from string theory to the evolution of flight to how the Pyramids were built.

 

Note: NOVA Education is required to begin every video with a funder pre-roll, essential to supporting streaming video. For technical reasons, this has caused NOVA Education videos to be blacklisted at certain schools. 

 

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Featured: 7-16-2013 The American Novel

The American Novel offers a comprehensive exploration of 200 years of the American novel, with detailed information on more than 50 American novels and authors, as well as the literary movements they inspired.

The Literary Timeline lets you scroll through 200 years of the American novel.

Six Novel Ideas uses six themes such as Melting Pot and Violence to explore the American novel throughout its history.

Test your literary know-how in the Elements of the Novel section of the site. The Lit Quiz will test your knowledge of the major works and authors of the American novel. In the flash quiz show, To Tell the Truth, decipher literary symbols or guess story characters. Use the Context and Hypertext feature to learn more about the historical, social, personal, and literary influences of important American authors.

The American Novel is a companion website to the PBS American Masters TV series Novel Reflections On The American Dream. The series explores the characters, plots, and themes of seven novels written since 1900, that deal with wealth, poverty, and the nature of success and failure in America. Passages from each book are dramatized through still photography that is inventively animated coupled with original and archival footage.

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Extra: Shakespeare Uncovered [English]

Shakespeare’s birthday is coming up on April 23. The day before (April 22), you can participate in a free interactive workshop, Shakespeare Uncovered: On Air, Online, & in the Classroom.

The workshop, presented by WNET New York Public Media and hosted by Big Deal Media’s Amazing Resources for Educators community, will take place online from 4 to 5 pm (ET).

The recent PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered, which tells the stories behind the stories of some of Shakespeare’s greatest works, is featured.

The six-part series explores the world and works of William Shakespeare through interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from film and television adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays; and excerpts staged especially for the series.

Shakespeare Uncovered Executive Producer Stephen Segaller will provide an overview of the series, and WNET Outreach Producer Janice Fuld will showcase the classroom resources developed to to accompany the series. The workshop will also include an opportunity to view and discuss videos from the series, an overview of the companion website, and a discussion of strategies for exploring the series and related content with high school students.

Click here to register for the online workshop

Click here to visit the Shakespeare Uncoveredwebsite

Featured: 12/11/2012 PBSLearning [Digital Resources]

PBS LearningMedia™ is a new online destination for trustworthy, classroom-ready, curriculum resources from PBS.

PBS LearningMedia's digital content is designed to help educators engage students and inspire learning. You can explore a selection of resources connected to Common Core State Standards.

PBS LearningMedia™ provides educators with the strategies, tools, and professional development resources they need to optimally take advantage of digital learning. The service can also be customized to support your local educational needs.

Watch a video introduction to PBS LearningMedia™

Sign up to PBS LearningMedia for free to tag favorites, access standards-aligned digital resources, and get instant access to the best of public media: videos, interactives, audio, photos, and in-depth lesson plans.

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COD - 7/10/2012 - NewsHour Extra [Current Events]

Using the standards and resources of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NewsHour Extra provides students and teachers with quality educational resources based on current issues and events.

NewsHour Extra provides unique current events resources for teachers such as news stories, pictures, maps, video, in-depth lesson plans, stories written by students, and more.

Lesson plans are organized by topic and can be found on these category pages: US, World, Science, Economics, Health, and Arts/Media. In addition, you can use the search function at the top of every page. 

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NewsHour Extra also provides an outlet for young people to speak out on issues important to them by publishing essays and original audio and video. These student voices are often directly related to the news and give adults insight into how events affect young people.

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Catch of the Day - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - 5/26/2011

This PBS website is designed to correlate with the educational information in the three-part series BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

The eight lesson plans and activities found in the BENJAMIN FRANKLIN website's downloadable Teacher's Guide are intended to encourage middle and high school students to explore the life and times of Franklin and explore his accomplishments.

The lessons and activities engage students using a rich multimedia environment in addition to traditional print resources. Flexible lesson plans help teachers adapt the instruction to their own students' needs.

The BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TV series draws upon the writings of Franklin and his contemporaries. It is set in the context of events in which Franklin was a key figure: the Age of Scientific Discovery, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and the Constitutional Convention.

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Catch of the Day - DNA - 3/9/2011

DNA is a five-part television series from PBS produced by Thirteen/WNET-New York exploring the history, development, and future of DNA science.

The DNA television series and web episodes can be a valuable resource for teachers and students. The five episodes in the DNA series:

1. The Secret of Life - The discovery of the double helix structure of DNA was a race between two teams of young scientists working in Britain, as well as the chemist Linus Pauling in California.
2. Playing God - In 1973, two scientists performed an experiment transferring the DNA of one species to another, becoming the first genetic engineers and generating a wave of controversy.
3. Human Race - The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990 and took over a decade to complete and cost billions of dollars. A rival private bid was initiated eight years later in an attempt to shut the public project down. An intense feud erupted between supporters of each project, so intense that President Clinton stepped in to try to unite the two sides.
4. Curing Cancer - The prospect of drugs that work at the DNA level is a real one. There are currently hundreds of drugs in development that might work  on different kinds of cancer in revolutionary ways.
5. Pandora's Box - Consider what effect the advancements in genetic science may have on our future. Can DNA science be used to change the human race?

In the For Teachers section are detailed lesson plans and activities for middle and high school students that are designed to fit in just a few class periods. Included are printable handouts. Lessons are correlated to the National Science Standards.

PBS allows each DNA episode to be taped off-the-air and used for one year from the initial broadcast for educational purposes. Videotapes for schools, libraries, and other educational institutions are available for purchase online through Films for the Humanities and Sciences or from Shop Thirteen.

The DNA series received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Catch of the Day - Teachers' Domain - 11/1/2010

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educators from PBS and its partners.

Thousands of media resources, supporting materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and professional development can be found at Teachers' Domain.

Browse Teachers' Domain according to commonly taught topics. Subjects, topics, and subtopics are based upon national and state standards and curricula.

These K-12 subject areas are included in Teachers' Domain …

• Arts
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies

The professional development content offered by Teachers' Domain includes online courses sorted by duration, grade, or subject. Teaching strategies are grouped by subject or type.

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Catch of the Day - Frontline TEACHER CENTER - 9/10/2010

The Frontline TEACHER CENTER is a companion website to the WGBH/PBS public affairs television series FRONTLINE.

The Frontline TEACHER CENTER gives educators access to classroom activities with streaming video, downloadable lesson plans, and other web resources to accompany FRONTLINE programs.

The Frontline TEACHER CENTER guides are grouped by the following subjects …

• Biographies
• Business/Economy
• Diversity
• Foreign Affairs/Defense
• Global Studies
• Government/Public Policy
• Health/Science/Technology
• Media Literacy
• Religion

FRONTLINE teacher’s guides are written primarily for use at the high school level (ages 14-17).

You can also locate resources by using the site search or browse FRONTLINE programs by title or date .

The FRONTLINE Planner is a monthly newsletter for educators with information including previews of upcoming programs, web highlights, and occasional behind-the-scenes reports from FRONTLINE producers and correspondents.

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PBS Teachers Connect

PBS Teachers Connect is an online community of teachers exchanging ideas, resources and instructional strategies on the integration of digital media and technology.

PBS Teachers Connect offers ...

• exclusive PBS content
• save and tag classroom resources
• media and technology discussions
• discount at ShopPBS