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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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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Trillion Dollar Footprint [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn that they have a digital footprint, which can be searched, shared, and seen by a large, invisible audience. Students then learn that they can take some control over their digital footprint based on what they post online....
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Education Development Center, Inc.: Tv411: Reading the Fine Print

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive three-part lesson on how fine print is used in advertising. In part one students read three advertisements and determine which details from the ads are important and which are not. In part two students read six...
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Pbs Learning Media: Welcome Home Balto Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Students K - 1st
This lesson, based on the animated story "Welcome Home Balto" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use visual imagery to enhance comprehension while listening to and reading informational texts. After Molly hears the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Suki's Bone Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st
Based on the animated story "Suki's Bone" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, this lesson plan introduces children to informative/explanatory and procedural texts and the purposes they serve. In the video, Molly's dog Suki uncovers...
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Pbs Learning Media: Rocky Rescue Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, based on the animated story "Rocky Rescue" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children notice compare and contrast text structure while listening to and reading informational texts. In the video, Molly uses a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Interactive Lessons

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore the wide range of interactive lessons available to students and teachers on PBS LearningMedia. Each interactive lesson lets you work at your own pace while you learn -- using media and engaging tools that save your work in the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Celebrating Fall: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore the autumn scene while learning math, literacy, and science at the same time! These fall-themed resources highlight ways to make traditional fall activities -- like visiting the apple orchard, going on nature hikes, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Great American Read: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great American Read is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the lens of America's 100 best-loved novels (a national survey). This LearningMedia collection highlights books from The...
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Stage Props, Blocking, and Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will block a scene on a graph and act out the scene. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Symmetry, Reflective Drawing, and Totem Poles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will create a colored pencil drawing utilizing symmetry and forms characteristic of Northwest Coast art and write a critique of their work. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & Hardy Hard Head

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
For this lesson, middle schoolers create and solve problems related to scale and write and perform a scene to share their problems and solutions. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Fractions in Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students explore the relationship between fractions and musical pitch. Media resources and teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Musical Fractions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will explore fractions through rhythmic sequences. Media sources and teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wheel of Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson is very similar to the popular television show Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and whatever they land on is the exercise they perform.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Worm Turns Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan, based on the animated story "The Worm Turns" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use several types of informational texts to gather facts. In the video, Molly and her friends are frightened after...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and Tooey come...
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Pbs Learning Media: Brand New Flag Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson, based on the 11-minute animated story "Brand New Flag" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use captions to access and convey meaning in informational texts. After Molly learns about the history of...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Night Manager Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson, based on the 11-minute animated story "The Night Manager" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children create or improve text by adding details or updating content. When a group of winter visitors arrive, Molly...
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Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection

For Students 3rd - 7th
Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...
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Pbs Learning Media: Nova: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The NOVA collection on PBS LearningMedia contains over 1500 resources from NOVA's broadcast and digital productions that educators can use in their lessons to spark and enrich student knowledge of STEM (Science Technology Engineering...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
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Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
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Pbs Learning Media: Ken Burns in the Classroom: Collection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these...