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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: California Public Media Education Service

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Public media stations across California have banded together to package a comprehensive set of broadcast and digital resources for teachers, students, and families for at-home learning. Drawing on our most popular offerings to teachers...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Learn Along Bingo Packets: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These bilingual, weekly Learn Along Bingo packets (one for PreK & K, one for Grades 1 & 2) will include a range of thematic learning opportunities for children to choose their own learning adventures. Emphasis will be on the PBS...
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Edward R. Murrow

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of journalist Edward R. Murrow. Extensive look at his life, focusing specifically on his career.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Comparing Satellite and Broadcast Radio Landscapes (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson in which students research the development of satellite technology and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. Students will examine the impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and discuss the role of a diverse, free...
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Other

Ohio University: Woub Digital

For Students 9th - 10th
WOUB Digital provides programming information for WOUB, a public broadcasting service of Ohio University.
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Other

Watching America: What the World Thinks About America

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of articles from foreign newspapers about America and American policies, translated into English from their languages of origin. These articles give readers a view of America from abroad. Site includes both English...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Audiences and Purposes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson features several weather videos, both real and created, to help students understand how information and the tone changes based on the audiences and the purposes for the presentation.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Radio Transmission

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from A Science Odyssey tracks the journey of a sound wave from the moment a musician sings into a microphone until his voice reaches the vibrating speakers of an AM Radio.
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Other

Podcasting Tools: Resource for Podcasting

For Students 9th - 10th
Podcasting Tools is a detailed resource that provides information about creating, maintaining, enhancing, viewing and displaying podcasts. A podcast can be used to relay information, give instructions or share something interesting, all...
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Other

Nbc

For Students 9th - 10th
The official home of NBC includes information on local news, national news, shows, show castings, videos, mobile, and games.
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Other

Pbs Newshour Extra: Student Reporting Labs

For Students 9th - 10th
Think. Create. Inform. You become the reporter. PBS connects high school students to local PBS Stations and news professionals to produce original, student-generated news video reports. Get involved and learn how to report, problem-solve...
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Other

American Public Media: Prairie Home Companion

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from American Public Media offers the opportunity to listen to "A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor" shows and also presents trivia about the show, writings by Keillor, and other related materials.
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Other

Center for Democracy and Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
A public interest organization working for public policies that advance civil liberties and democratic values in information technologies. Contains links to information on free speech, data privacy, wiretapping, and cryptography.
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Other

Klass Kids Foundation: Amber Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explores the Amber Plan by state. Learn what the Amber plan is, how the plan works, and what the initial criteria are to put the plan in action. Content also includes a state-by-state analysis of the Amber plan in each area.
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Other

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Amber Alerts

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the AMBER Alert plan. Content takes a look at what it is, why it was created, how it works, success stories, and much more.
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CNN

Cnn

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is news site features daily world and US news, weather, business, sports, technology, space, health, entertainment, politics, law, travel, food, arts and style, books, and an in-depth section. Includes video.
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Other

Expert click.com: Yearbook of Experts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which is provided for by Expert Click.com, gives an online encyclopedia of sources for journalists and broadcasters.
Handout
BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art: Van Gogh

For Students 9th - 10th
From the BBC's documentary series "Simon Schama's Power of Art," find a synopsis of the broadcast on the Dutch master Van Gogh.
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BBC

Bbc Four: Audio Interview: Harold Pinter

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from an interview with Pinter broadcast on the BBC radio network BBC Four.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 587: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the life and achievements of Canadian inventor, Alexander Graham Bell. Focuses on the two fascinations that marked Bell's whole life: his concern for the deaf and for flight, and the inventions that resulted. This is a...
Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1240: Northwest Passage

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on the history of the search for the Northwest Passage. The discussion focuses on the reality that there is no Passage - only a history of brave people suffering incredible hardships to learn that the region was impassable...
Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 2084: Bush Pilots

For Students 9th - 10th
A commentary on bush pilots and the development of flying to remote areas. The 3-minute discussion focuses on the history of the development of bush flying and how flight made accessing remote areas of a country possible. This is a...
Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 381: Civil War Submarine

For Students 9th - 10th
A short discussion about the invention of the submarine and its use by both the Confederates and the Federals in the Civil War. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1199: Gallup Poll

For Students 9th - 10th
An informal, almost light-hearted, discussion of two of the great historical failures of public polling experts. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.

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