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Can you believe we’re halfway there? It’s almost impossible to believe that half the school year has passed and what a year it’s been so far. Some of you have been teaching in person; some have been managing your own children while you teach others from your living room, and some of you are doing both! Even though a vaccine seems right around the corner, the waiting seems endless. And we know life has been forever altered for many of us. We are speaking with educators, and have been thinking deeply about what we can do to support your teaching practice. We know that many of you have used the PBS Teacher Planning Kits for New School Routines, but for some of you, these planning kits are new. Our intention when we created them was to connect to the support we’re offering to teachers, parents and families, to make the most of PBS LearningMedia (all free!), and to reflect the hard fact that not all of your students have internet access. We know each teacher has their own unique circumstances and needs. We hope these planning kits help you navigate your routine, whatever that may be.

We will make two more kits after this one, taking us all the way through the end of the school year. We want these kits to work for you, so as always, we are actively seeking feedback about how we can improve this resource or any of our available resources. Please do not hesitate to tell us what you think: what works, and what you would change because we’re learning together.

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1 Kit Basics/Checklist This is the third of five kits that have been created to coincide with broadcast programs for students that do not have internet access, but many of the lessons and resources will be relevant throughout the year. You can findpast kits on PBS LearningMedia. Here are a few basic things to help make the most out of this resource.

Check your email Sign in to PBS LearningMedia and As a PBS LearningMedia registered user, you will receive visit regularly an email with the latest planning kit approximately The kits, along with links to much of the content, can every eight weeks. To make sure you’re registered, be found in the PBS LearningMedia collection called sign up here. Resources for New School Routines. Also, the more you become familiar with PBS LearningMedia, the more Mark your calendar resources and tools you’ll find and use. Each planning kit is supported by a webinar where peers from around the country will share how they’re using Check in with your local PBS station the latest kit to plan instruction. Join us! Webinars will PBS Stations around the country offer endless resources be held at 7PM ET, on the following dates: for educators and parents. This Google doc highlights these resources, including several upcoming webinars for • January 14, 2021 teachers of all grades and subjects. • March 11, 2021 • May 6, 2021 Share with parents The Planning Kits connect directly with dozens of resources for parents, including our weekly “Learn Along” Bingo packets for PreK-K and Grades 1-2, which Watch, Teach, Explore are available in English and Spanish. We encourage you to share these resources and the worksheets with the The kits are intended to help you plan your parents and families of your students. lessons up to eight weeks ahead of time, based on themes and content relevant to what Find more PBS and PBS KIDS resources you’re teaching in your classroom. To increase accessibility, many of these resources are PBS KIDS and PBS are thrilled to be able to provide thousands of free resources to support new school connected to broadcast content for students routines, and at home learning. without internet access, and some of the content is available in Spanish. NOTE: Some of • PBS KIDS website: Thousands of videos, games, and the broadcast content airs outside of school activities for kids featuring their favorite shows hours. To use this content, we recommend you and characters. share the details about how to view it after • PBS KIDS for Parents: Tips, fun activities, and school hours with students and their parents. resources for parents and families. • PBS Teachers’ Lounge: Blog site designed to inspire Where possible, we have also included media your teaching. that can be viewed online anytime, whether • PBS LearningMedia: Thousands of free, standards- you’re teaching in person or virtually (or both!). aligned lessons and teaching tools.

Our planning sheets are divided into three Watch the webinar sections: Watch, Teach, Explore. The “Watch” If you missed the welcome webinar, please find ithere . It section includes broadcast and/or online is full of helpful hints and fun ideas about how to use the media. The “Teach” section connects activities, featured content. games, and lessons directly to the featured Tell us what you think media. Finally, the “Explore” section leads you to additional resources that can help you plan a We are learning and building WITH you. We would love to hear your feedback about these kits, or any of the more comprehensive lesson on that particular other available resources. Please feel free to email us topic or theme. with questions and comments: what’s working for you, and what can be improved.

2 What’s in the Planning Kit? You can count on these four sections to be included in all five of the planning kits distributed throughout the year.

Special Each kit includes featured lessons or collections designed to provide additional support around timely topics you’re likely covering in your Lessons and classes. For example, in this kit, you’ll find a feature section dedicated to Collections race and racial justice. This is the first section of the kit.

A plan-ahead guide for PreK-5 educators that includes the weekly “Learn Along” Bingo packet for PreK-K and Grades 1-2 and connects to a variety of resources developed for teachers and parents of children PreK-5. The Planning broadcast content relates to the PBS KIDS 24/7 channel, available on most cable and streaming services like Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire. Sheet: PreK-5 You can also stream directly from the PBS KIDS Video app. You can find the entire PBS KIDS 24/7 broadcast schedule here if you’re interested in planning lessons around PBS KIDS shows.

This is the special plan-ahead guide for 6-12 educators. The broadcast Planning content connects to the WORLD channel At-Home Learning block, which offers five hours of programming for students, grades 6-12, every weekday. Sheet: 6-12 Check with your local station to find out where and when to watch.

Each kit will include links to existing or upcoming professional learning Relevant opportunities related to the featured content. These may be short Professional tutorials, webinars or webinar series, self-paced courses, or blog posts. In this first kit, all the highlighted professional learning relates to using PBS Learning LearningMedia, or ideas and tips for remote teaching.

3 SPECIAL LESSON PBS All-Stars Lessons This elementary and secondary lesson was created by PBS Digital Innovator All-Stars Mariana Athayde, Gabe Garcia, Crystal Monteiro and Warren Wise. They focus on bringing conversations about race, racial justice and advocacy into the classroom.

Explore Racial Justice and Advocacy | PBS All-Stars Lessons

WATCH TEACH EXPLORE PBS KIDS Talk about: This workshop is designed to This workshop contains three lessons Race & Racism inspire and urge you and your that highlight race, racism and John PBS KIDS spoke with real families students to start a dialogue on Lewis’s ‘good trouble.’ Students will and had conversations about race, racial justice and advocacy. actively watch different clips of PBS KIDS racial identity, anti-Black racism, We encourage you to reflect on talk about: Race & Racism, and engage and how it is incumbent on all your personal racial journey prior in difficult conversations around racial of us — children and parents to presenting and exploring this justice in a developmentally appropriate alike — to actively work towards content with your students. Our manner. Students will learn how to about building a more equitable society. ultimate goal is to provide you with differences and stand up and speak out tools to create a more equitable for change — even if that means getting classroom community that includes into some ‘good trouble.’ Media can be placing student voice in the used to pose a problem or as a simple forefront of all classroom decisions. conversation practice while building language skills and increasing student participation. Racial Justice | PBS All-Stars Lessons

WATCH TEACH EXPLORE THROUGH THE NIGHT This lesson is designed to Using clips from THROUGH THE NIGHT, directed by Loira Limbal use media as a tool to bring students will think critically about what conversations about race, justice justice means and who it pertains to. and equity into the classroom. It is Students will also dive into identifying critical that you, as the educator, racial justice and injustices within lean into any discomfort you their community. Through the various may be feeling and use that as activities and conversations students will an opportunity to learn with your begin to identify the systems at play. students. You do not need to have every answer, this lesson will help bring more authentic and real conversations into your classroom.

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This plan-ahead guide for PreK-5 educators helps you plan lessons around a variety of themes over the next eight weeks. It connects to our Learn Along Bingo packets, available in English and Spanish, including printable activities should your students not have internet access. The broadcast content outlined here connects to the PBS KIDS 24/7 channel, available on most cable and streaming services like Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire. You can also stream directly from the PBS KIDS Video app, and many of the full episodes will be available on-demand during the broadcast window. You can find the entire PBS KIDS 24/7 broadcast schedule here if you’re interested in planning lessons around other PBS KIDS shows.

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Broadcast: CURIOUS GEORGE, The Truth About George Burgers/ The CURIOUS GEORGE Let’s play! Introduce your Curious George in STEM Collection students to shadows and what the Dark is a great way happens when all light sources 1/19, 5PM ET to help young are blocked out with these Science PreK-K children understand videos from SID THE SCIENCE Online: science, technology, KID. What makes shadows so You can find engineering, and math cool? Find out with this video CURIOUS GEORGE (STEM) concepts. and shadow puppet activity. clips and episodes on the PBS KIDS website.

Using videos from PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD explore JAN. 18 how the position of the Sun in Broadcast: the sky affects shadows on Light and HERO ELEMENTARY Earth’s surface and observe The Butterfly Shadows how objects can be seen in a Chasers/ Help your young dark space when light enters Something Shady learners with the space. Looking for more 1/19, 8PM ET connecting science light and shadow work? Use Science 1-2 and engineering with this interactive lesson with Online: literacy using this your little learners. You can find HERO collection from HERO For a hands on activity use, ELEMENTARY ELEMENTARY. A thing or 2 About Making clips and episodes Shade! Children could view on the PBS KIDS it first and then try out website different materials to see how translucent, opaque, and transparent they are.

Online: ISS Crew Readies Explore the relationship for Unique Use data, interactive between the sun’s apparent View of the models, and videos to Science 3-5 path in the sky and changing Solar Eclipse explore space! shadows with this interactive | Smithsonian game. Science Starter

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Broadcast: This activity will help PEG + CAT, The children measure by Patterns are AMAZING! From Birthday Cake cups, tablespoons and a pattern-themed birthday Problem/The teaspoons, create and recognize patterns and party to a pattern-a-rama Doohickey Problem Math PreK-K follow instructions. game to a musical pattern 1/26, 7AM ET Continue the learning video to share with your with this online game students to get them excited Online: where they can make about all things patterns! PEG + CAT, Cake a cake. Time (video clip)

In this game, learners will break the code by identifying patterns. Need an enrichment Broadcast: activity for your learners ODD SQUAD, The Explore this collection working above grade level? End of the Road of resources that Learners can identify the JAN. 25 1/26, 1:30PM ET makes elementary- patterns using addition, level math fun and Math 1-2 subtraction and geometry to Patterns Online: imaginative. Also solve the puzzle. Get help from You can find ODD check out ODD SQUAD’s the ODD SQUAD team when SQUAD clips and Collection of videos on you’re trying to teach your episodes on the patterns. little learners patterns. Crack PBS KIDS website. the case with this video on how to solve a pattern.

Patterns can be found anywhere, even at a zoo, or Online: Spark curiosity in in the sky! This lesson plan A Double Pattern STEM concepts and introduces students to several Math 3-5 - Cyberchase | PBS boost problem solving geometric shapes, patterns KIDS Lab skills of elementary of geometric shapes, and age students. numbers and patterns of beats that make up rhythms.

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Broadcast: Make word games PEG + CAT, The fun with PEG + CAT! The month of February Dance Problem The resources in this honors the important role 2/2, 7AM ET collection have activity Black people play in the story Social ideas, video clips, and of our country. Across the PreK-K Online: Studies online games. Keep the United States, schools and PEG + CAT, The dance party going by communities organize to learn Dance Problem, watching, “African more about Black History and Dance with Misty Dance Field Trip,” and Culture. Copeland (video dance along! clip)

Broadcast: Introduce your learners to XAVIER RIDDLE some of the world’s most AND THE SECRET famous heroes with this MUSEUM, I am Use this teacher’s online game. Learn about Maya Angelou/I guide to plan how Zora Neale Hurston with this Am Frederick you’ll integrate video clip, printable biosketch FEB. 1 Douglass Social video clips, biosketch reader, and support materials. 1-2 2/2, 7PM ET Celebrating Studies readers, and graphic Have your learners create organizers for XAVIER a biosketch about a hero of Black Online: RIDDLE AND THE interest using these graphic You can find Leaders SECRET MUSEUM. organizers. With this video, XAVIER RIDDLE learners can discover the clips and episodes man behind the piano, Duke on the PBS KIDS Ellington. website.

The Civil Rights Movement, from here until now had many prominent figures who led the way, like John Lewis, Introduce your Rosa Parks and Malcolm X. Online: students to a pivotal The work they did helped to The Freedom leader in the civil Social pave the way for the first 3-5 Riders | Civil rights movement, Dr. Studies Black President of the United Rights Movement Martin Luther King States, Barack Obama. After Jr. using this lesson watching, “Barack Obama | plan. 20-second Presidents,” invite your learners to create their own 60-second video about a prominent Black figure.

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Broadcast: PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC, Cupid Inspire children to Students can work to create Calls It Quits think and express art for someone they care 2/9, 3PM ET themselves creatively about and share it as a gift. using this collection In this Spanish animation, take Art PreK-K Online: of videos, games, a tour of a classroom gallery You can find and more from as a boy describes works of PINKALICIOUS & PINKALICIOUS & art that he and his classmates PETERRIFIC clips PETERRIFIC. have made. and episodes on the PBS KIDS website.

Get your young learners excited to Broadcast: explore the great FEB. 8 NATURE CAT, outdoors with this Happy Halentine’s collection of NATURE Get your young learners in the Day CAT resources, or they Show You spirit of caring with this bingo 2/9, 12PM ET can do some hands- Art 1-2 game, kindness tree activity, Care With on activities when or this Valentine’s Day video Art Online: the weather isn’t with NATURE CAT. NATURE CAT, perfect. What art can Happy Halentine’s your learners make Day with materials found outdoors?

This resource helps your students Online: understand sound Musician Let’s Jam! Through live and how it’s important Performance: performances and interviews, when making Art 3-5 SistaStrings | the collection represents a wide instruments. Learn Re/sound: Songs variety of cultures, periods, about the behavior of Wisconsin and styles of music. of waves with these interactive sound waves.

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This SESAME STREET collection is designed to engage preschoolers Broadcast: in everyday learning SESAME STREET, by teaching core When your child sees The Power of We skills in Math, something unfair they can 2/16, 7PM ET Literacy, STEM, and be a helper by speaking out, Social and Emotional which is helping them find SEL PreK-K Online: Development. solutions to problems. This You can find video teaches kids that they SESAME STREET DANIEL TIGER’S need to ask how they can help clips and episodes Life’s Little Lesson the situation after saying on the PBS KIDS collection can help sorry. website. children develop strategies that they can use everyday to grow “inside.”

Discover how to overcome obstacles in order to take civic action for a cause you Broadcast: care about in this video from PBS KIDS Talk FEB. 15 the PBS KIDS series ARTHUR. About: Race & Here are tips for every In the special, PBS KIDS Treating Racism educator to help talk Talk About Race & Racism, 2/16, 7:30PM ET Others Fairly SEL 1-2 to their young learners children and grown-ups had about race and conversations about racial Online: racism. identity, anti-Black racism, PBS KIDS Talk and how it is incumbent About: Race & on all of us — children and Racism parents alike — to actively work towards building a more equitable society.

Inspired by civil rights activist John Lewis, ARTHUR Takes a Stand is a great resource for This resource is a learners to learn more about Online: virtual professional justice. Arthur on Racism: learning session SEL 3-5 Talk, Listen, and discussing tools One teacher shared a daring Act | ARTHUR educators could use for lesson that tested their anti-racist teaching. students’ answers and took their understanding of discrimination to another level.

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Broadcast: CURIOUS GEORGE, Curious George vs. What is winter and What do pink lemonade and Winter why does it get ice cream have in common? 2/23, 5PM ET so cold? Use this Both can be served cold! collection of winter Science PreK-K These activities teach kids Online: resources to start a STEM skills by showing them You can find discussion with your how ice melts and how to CURIOUS GEORGE young learners. make their own ice cream. clips and episodes on the PBS KIDS website.

Your young learners explore how materials change when heated and cooled or they can observe frozen water in winter and liquid water in summer. In this clip from Broadcast: In this video, students READY JET GO!, Face 9000 HERO can explore how teaches the kids about FEB. 22 ELEMENTARY, materials change Enceladus, one of the moons The Lake Mistake when heated and of Saturn. He explains how Freezing 2/23, 8PM ET cooled. Can your water breaks through the icy Science 1-2 and Melting learners figure out surface and freezes midair, Online: what it takes to falling back onto the moon as HERO freeze and unfreeze snow. ELEMENTARY, The liquids? Follow along Lake Mistake with RUFF RUFFMAN! Invite your learners to create body movements to show matter moving from one state to another. (Ex. arms swaying around like a gas or body like a statue when frozen).

What effect does salt have How does ice cream on frozen water? Watch this get made? And what video to find out. Though Online: does it have to do with ice, water, and steam look Testing engineering? Learn Science 3-5 and feel very different, they Insulators: Ice more with this video are all made of the same Cube in a Box introducing students particles. Find out more to the science behind about these three phases of ice cream. matter with this animation.

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Broadcast: DANIEL TIGER’s Help your little NEIGHBORHOOD, learners with social- This Sesame Street Story Book Sharing at the emotional development Builder is the perfect tool for Library using the DANIEL Literacy PreK-K helping to identify feelings 3/2, 4:30PM ET TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD and emotions, word and letter collection that includes recognition, and letter sounds. Online: videos, worksheets, Daniel Goes to the lesson plans, and more. Library (clip)

This video segment provides a resource for fluency, Broadcast: phonemic awareness, phonics, MOLLY OF DENALI, and more for your young The Worm Turns learners. This is a collection MAR. 1 3/2, 2:30PM ET Your students can take of seven interactive games MOLLY OF DENALI with designed to help elementary Growing As Literacy 1-2 Online: them wherever they school students gain reading A Reader You can find go with the MOLLY OF comprehension competences. MOLLY OF DENALI DENALI podcast. What are compound words? videos and clips Let’s learn! Enjoy segments on the PBS KIDS from BETWEEN THE LIONS, the website. series that helps kids “Get Wild About Reading!”

This game is part of a Online: collection of games designed The Message Check out more to help elementary school of Charlotte’s elementary school students learn to read. This Literacy 3-5 Web | The Great books to introduce short excerpt video from American Read to your class. Charlotte’s Web, teaches children the importance of friendship.

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Word of the Day is author! Broadcast: Explore new CLIFFORD What is an author and what CLIFFORD THE BIG THE BIG RED DOG do they do? Find out more in RED DOG, Night at adventures through this video. Use this resource to the Library this collection that encourage your little learners 3/9, 9:30AM ET supports storytelling, imaginative play, to create and share their Literacy PreK-K and social-emotional own stories which supports Online: learning in your language development and You can find preschool classroom. creativity. These videos CLIFFORD THE BIG The collection also address some of the common RED DOG episodes features bilingual questions families and their and clips on the resources. support networks have about PBS KIDS website. teaching braille to a child.

Broadcast: XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM, I am Have your young Use this lesson plan to help Zora Neale learners discover your students create or Huston/I am the life of author improve their text by adding Charles Dickens Zora Neale Hurston details. This is a compilation MAR. 8 Literacy 1-2 3/9, 7PM ET with this video clip, of videos to give teachers best Growing printable biosketch practices when it comes to Online: reader, and support teaching literacy to deafblind As A You can find materials. students. Writer XAVIER RIDDLE clips and episodes on the PBS KIDS website.

Use this video and support materials to help your student avoid dangling modifiers. Students can watch this video segment about peacocks. Then, using a chart, identify sentence types within a Using this lesson plan, Online: short paragraph and complete you can introduce Helen Keller a sentence transformation your young learners Literacy 3-5 | Author, worksheet. Inspire your to Helen Keller and Advocate, and students with this video learn about her Activist Video about Comic Book artist, accomplishments. Phil Jimenez, who has worked for Marvel and DC comics. Connect it all together by having your learners create a comic book about Helen Keller that includes each type of sentence!

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Broadcast: ELINOR WONDERS WHY, Zig Zag Plant/Butterfly How many senses do you have? Drinks Use this video to introduce 3/16, 3:30PM ET Have your learners your students to theirs! follow along as you Your little learners can use Science PreK-K Online: explore the “Using Our this place mat activity to talk Visit the Senses” digital lesson. about what you see, smell, Elinor Wonders taste, hear, and feel over your Why: Using Our next snack or mealtime. Senses sub- collection on PBS LearningMedia.

In these HERO ELEMENTARY activities, children learn about Broadcast: the way they can use their NATURE CAT, five senses to help them in Under Pressure/ Enjoy the great everyday life. The song helps Rainy Day outdoors with NATURE MAR. 15 kids explore topics related 3/16, 12PM ET CAT using this to literacy, STEM (science, Five Senses collection of graphic Science 1-2 technology, engineering and Online: organizers, classroom math) and social-emotional You can find clips, story segments, learning. Bilingual tunes are NATURE CAT interactives, and also included. Enjoy this lesson episodes and clips readers. plan from WILD KRATTS to get on the PBS KIDS your learners thinking about website. how people AND animals use their senses.

How do your five senses all Children can explore work? What do they have how animals and in common? What happens Online: humans use their when something goes wrong? Science 3-5 Cat Adaptations: senses to learn about Discover the answers in this Super Senses the world around them video. Using this lesson plan, with this fun hands-on students use scientific inquiry activity. to investigate how ear shape affects hearing.

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This plan-ahead guide is for 6-12 educators. The broadcast content connects to the WORLD Channel At-Home Learning block, which offers five hours of programming for students in grades 6-12, every weekday (full schedule here). Check with your local station to find out where and when to watch.

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Students learn about the Human Genome Project in this lesson plan: the process, Broadcast: the functions of sections of Ken Burns’s THE DNA code, how knowledge of GENE: AN INTIMATE the human genome is being HISTORY, Part 1 applied to medicine, and 1/18, 12PM & 1PM ET Ken Burns in the about genetic variation. And Science 9-12 Cont. on 1/20 Classroom: The in this lesson plan, students Gene - Collection can explore if the Human Online: Genome Project is ethical. In Ken Burns’s THE this lesson, students will enter GENE: AN INTIMATE the world of the genome, HISTORY learning about human history and evolution by using video segments from The Human Spark.

Broadcast: THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY This collection of content RIVERS TO CROSS, captures the voices, images, Episode 5: Rise! The JAN. 18 and events of the Civil Rights Road to Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing (1940-1968) The African struggle for racial equality in 1/18, 3PM ET Americans: Many Social Studies 6-12 America. Using two primary Rivers to Cross - source activities and a short Online: Collection video in these lesson plans, THE AFRICAN students will learn about a AMERICANS: MANY Civil Rights Activist, Rosa RIVERS TO CROSS, Parks & Malcolm X. The Realities of Separate But Equal (video clip)

Broadcast: MASTERPIECE: Les Explore how Les Misérables Misérables, Part 1 became both a publicly 1/22, 2PM ET adored national and Cont. at 3PM & MASTERPIECE: revolutionary anthem. Set ELA 9-12 4PM ET Les Miserables the scene with your students

by taking them virtually to Online: France where Les Misérables MASTERPIECE: Les took place. Misérables, Taking Sides (video clip)

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Students can discover how climate change affects the Navajo Nation in this video from NASA. When it comes to public policy and climate change, this video explores Broadcast: some of the difficulties NOVA: Decoding the encountered in reaching Weather Machine agreements on climate NOVA: Decoding 1/25, 12PM & 1PM ET change.This video from Science the Weather NOVA describes climate data Machine Online: suggesting that the Earth has NOVA: Decoding the undergone dramatic climate Weather Machine shifts in relatively short spans of time. For climate change and global perspectives, this interactive from FRONTLINE’s The Last Generation shows students talking to one another.

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Broadcast: FRONTLINE: Coal’s Deadly Dust A Resurgence Explore the challenges facing 1/26, 3PM ET in Black Lung the deployment of clean coal Social Studies 8-12 Disease: Coal’s technology using this video Online: Deadly Dust and support materials. FRONTLINE: Coal’s Deadly Dust

Broadcast: POETRY IN AMERICA: The poem “The New Colossus” The New Colossus / is on the plaque of the Statue POETRY IN AMERICA: of Liberty. You can use this To Prisoners lesson to encourage students 1/29, 2PM ET Lazarus: The New to examine the connection Colossus between the Statue of Liberty ELA 6-12 Online: and immigration to the United POETRY IN AMERICA: Brooks: To States. This collection of Lazarus: The New Prisoners resources is dedicated to Ken Colossus (video clip) Burns’s documentary, The Statue of Liberty and includes POETRY IN AMERICA: videos, lesson plans, and Brooks: To Prisoners interactive guides. (video clip)

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Why haven’t we found alien civilizations yet? Learn more Broadcast: in this video from STELLAR, GENIUS BY STEPHEN or dive deeper with PBS HAWKING: Are We SPACE TIME on new scientific Alone? NOVA Wonders: Using Light discoveries that detect we 2/4, 2PM ET Science 6-12 Signatures in the might not be alone. Discover

Search for Alien the tools and techniques that Online: Life scientists use in their search GENIUS BY STEPHEN for signs of life on distant HAWKING: Are We planets in this video from Alone? NOVA WONDERS: Are We Alone?

If your students traced their Broadcast: family tree back 185 million AFRICA’S GREAT generations, they wouldn’t see CIVILIZATIONS, a human, a primate, or even Episode 1: Origins a mammal. They’d see a fish. 02/2, 3 PM ET So where along that line does Cont. on 2/3, 2/4 the first human show up? Find Africa’s Great out! Now that you know where Social Studies 6-9 Civilizations - Online: humans came from, how did Collection FEB. 1 AFRICA’S GREAT they survive throughout the CIVILIZATIONS, ages to become the top of Mitochondrial Eve the food chain? There is some and Homo Sapiens confusion with Neanderthals in Africa’s Great Rift and Homo Sapiens, but you Valley (video clip) can use this video as a guide for your students.

In this collection from American Masters | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, gain a deeper understanding of Angelou’s work and why Broadcast: it’s so impactful. Consider AMERICAN MASTERS: having students research Maya Angelou: And the Harlem Writers Guild Still I Rise and have students form their 2/5, 3PM & 4PM ET own writing communities. AMERICAN This teaching guide helps MASTERS: Maya ELA 8-12 Online: instructors use a specific Angelou: And Still AMERICAN MASTERS: primary source set, The Poetry I Rise - Collection Maya Angelou: of Maya Angelou, in the And Still I Rise, The classroom. It offers discussion Impact of “I Know questions, classroom activities, Why the Caged Bird and primary source analysis Sings (video clip) tools. Or have students do a close reading of “Caged Bird” using this Elements of Poetry student-facing interactive, perfect for online distance learning.

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Examine the forces that act on an airplane in flight, the motions a pilot controls, and the design process engineers use to develop airplanes that manage Broadcast: these flight conditions. In this Blackbird: Legacy of video segment adapted from Innovation Overcoming the NASA, learn how designs found 2/8, 1 PM ET Challenges of in nature have inspired today’s Science 6-12 Solar Powered aerospace engineers as they Online: Flight conceive the next-generation Blackbird: Legacy of of flying machines. This episode Innovation of NASA’s STEM in 30 series features the SR-71 Blackbird on display at the Steven F. Udvar- Hazy Center and explores why it was so important for reconnaissance.

Broadcast: Introduce your students to Reconstruction: political cartoons used during America After the reconstruction with this image Civil War library. This video, from The FEB. 8 2/8, 3PM & 4PM ET Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, shows Reconstruction: some of the ways the South Online: America After Social Studies 7-12 responded to Reconstruction. Reconstruction: the Civil War - Explore the impact of the America After the Collection Civil War and abolition on Civil War, The 15th the states with this interactive Amendment and from American Experience: African American “Reconstruction - The Second Men in Congress Civil War.” (video clip)

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye gave a voice to the rise of American popular culture’s discontent. Discover how he Broadcast: shed light on the power of THE GREAT first-person narratives with his AMERICAN READ: novel. While discovering first- Who Am I? person narratives, your students 2/12, 4PM ET can watch the MASTERPIECE

ELA The Great adaptation of Jane Eyre, which 6-12 Online: American Read was a trailblazing novel during THE GREAT it’s time. Is To Kill a Mockingbird AMERICAN READ: still relevant today? Learn more Who Am I?, Jane in this video resource from Eyre & First-Person American Masters, and read this Narrative (video article from PBS NewsHour clip) about other books that “shift the perspective from a white girl’s point of view to people of color.”

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Broadcast: Explore the life of writer and AMERICAN MASTERS: activist Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry: and how her work helped pave Sighted Eyes/Feeling the way for a new generation Heart of writers, especially for 2/19, 3PM & 4PM ET AMERICAN people who identify as LGBTQ,

ELA MASTERS: Black, and progressive, in 6-12 Online: Lorraine this video from First Person: AMERICAN MASTERS: Hansberry Classroom. This collection uses Lorraine Hansberry: primary sources to explore Sighted Eyes/Feeling Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Heart, A Raisin in A Raisin in the Sun using the Sun: American the Digital Public Library of Dream Deferred America Primary Source Sets. (video clip)

In this collection of video Broadcast: segments from Iowans AMERICAN Return to Freedom Summer, EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN participants reflect on their FEB. 15 Freedom Summer EXPERIENCE: experiences during the period 2/16, 3PM & 4PM ET Social Studies 9-12 What Was called Freedom Summer. Learn

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Check out the SciGirls Broadcast: collection where they have SCIGIRLS: High Tech a bold goal of changing Tide / SCIGIRLS: how millions of girls think Super Sleuths SciGirls | Super about science, technology, 2/23, 2PM ET Sleuths engineering and math—or STEM. Discover the immersive, Science 6-8 Online: SciGirls | High perplexing, and hands-on SCIGIRLS: High Tech Tech Tide: side of physical science Tide Research with Dianna Cowern, host of Physics Girl. You can also SCIGIRLS: Super introduce your students to five Sleuths powerful women in science with this blog.

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Before Hawaii became part of the United States, it was an independent kingdom with a distinct culture that had been Broadcast: in place since the 12th Century. ISLANDS OF Through images provided by WONDER: Hawaii the Library of Congress, your 3/1, 1PM ET Volcanic Island students can learn more about

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With this guide from FRONTLINE, students will study the history of Christianity, Broadcast: what it takes to be a “founder,” The Ornament of the the nature of storytelling, and World the role of religion in society. 3/8, 3PM & 4PM ET Islamic Art | Three of the world’s major

Social Studies 6-12 Religion & Ethics religions, Judaism, Christianity, Online: Newsweekly and Islam, were all born in You can find clips the Middle East and are all from The Ornament inextricably linked to one MAR. 8 of the World on the another. Teachers can read this PBS website. blog that Deconstructs Myths and Clarifys truths about the religion of Islam.

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This video segment from Broadcast: Nature: “Raccoon Nation” WILD METROPOLIS: explores the migration of Survivors raccoons to cities and discusses 3/16, 2PM ET Peregrine Falcons traits that help them thrive

in Urban Settings in urban environments. Your Science 6-8 Online: | World’s Fastest students can use the full You can find Animal collection from Nature to clips from WILD learn more about animal METROPOLIS: adaptations, human impacts Survivors on the PBS on the Earth, and more using website this resource.

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In this kit, we have highlighted a handful of professional learning resources to help enhance your learning on topics included in this kit, like how to use media in a distance-learning classroom, professional learning webinars and how to unwind after lesson-planning! We have used the to denote resources where certificates are available.

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We are all trekking through new territory, trying to balance At-Home Learning this new normal of working, educating, and parenting… all ALL Blog Tips From an simultaneously. From a seasoned educator, who is also “teacher Educator Mom mom,” there are three things that are sure to make your learning time go FAR.

We’ve laughed, cried, danced, sang, played, painted, hopped, skipped, jumped and oh, so much more. And when someone lost a tooth, we all searched around the classroom looking in every 5 Virtual Ways to crayon, toy and block bin because we, as a class, knew how special ALL Blog Build a Classroom that was to a five year old. So what do you do? Do you send off Community your students with a two week packet and hope for the best? Or when your families or administrators ask that you provide continuity of learning to your kids virtually, you step up to the plate.

As I watched the Distance Learning with PBS LearningMedia webinar, I was so excited to see all of the questions asked by our PBS Teachers from around the country. Still, what was foremost Top 5 Distance in my mind was the silent teacher, the one I often was, listening ALL Blog Learning Questions Answered attentively and trying to learn something new, trying to earn my skinned knee. Riding a bike took time, but distance learning became an overnight reality, a life-altering event. So let’s look at this reality as a unique type of differentiated instruction.

Anytime we experience change, it disrupts our worlds. I chose to make some big life changes in 2018, but COVID-19 has forced Finding Ways to Reflect and change upon everyone, and the hardest part is that no one chose ALL Blog Recharge During it and there is no foreseeable end date. This leaves us all with a Difficult Times few choices. How do I choose to respond to the things that I can’t control? How do I choose to show up for others? How do I ground myself in the present moment so I can be present for others?

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Distance Learning This one-hour virtual learning event, hosted by PBS master trainers ALL Blog with PBS and educators, highlights a variety of tips, from student activities to LearningMedia digital tools and PBS LearningMedia hacks.

We invite you to a live discussion with illustrator, animator, writer, director and producer, Joe Murray, who created the new PBSKids hit, Let’s Go Luna. You’ll recognize Joe’s previous work as creator Professional Developing Cultural of Rocko’s Modern Life and Camp Lazlo. Together with on-staff PreK-2 Learning Video Awareness anthropologist Erik Messal and cultural advisors from more than a dozen countries, Joe has developed a fun, sweet, irreverent way for even our littlest learners to travel the world and develop global awareness.

Have you ever noticed that our Littles have A LOT to say? Whether they’ve mastered language or not, they are brimming with ideas, imagination, and creativity. This episode focuses on how you can Professional Using Media to Lift help nurture those strengths and encourage learners to create PreK-3 Learning Video the Littlest Voices their own content. Together, we’ll look into the important role media creation plays in each episode and explore how educators are using the show to engage their little learners in the content creation process.

This course, designed specifically for early childhood educators, Supporting Play introduces ways in which teachers and caregivers can use media PreK-3 Self-Paced Course with Media and and technology to support playful learning experiences with young Technology children while learning about science. Explore your beliefs and understandings about technology and interactive media use.

Strategies to Media. It’s all around us -- online, print, cars, signs -- everywhere. Deconstruct Media It is important now more than ever that young learners have the PreK-3 Blog and Encourage opportunity to use digital learning and understand how to use and Media Literacy decode media appropriately.

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Our world changes every day, and with that, so does our teaching Inspiring Young practice: there is always more to learn as a STEAM (Science, Professional 6-12 Scientists Through Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) educator. In this three-part Learning Video STEAM Education series, we’ll look at ways to inspire our young scientists and make concepts such as data and computational thinking engaging!

We’ll discuss how to cultivate inclusive spaces within your classroom so students can build a foundation for learning and Cultivating inquiry that allows them to empathize with, and better understand Professional Inclusive Spaces for 6-12 different perspectives. PBS Digital Innovator All Stars Shelly Stanton Learning Video Empathy Inquiry and Paige Somoza will highlight exciting resources and models that you can immediately implement in your middle/high school classrooms.

When I wrote this, it was nearly the end of March. For the last two Strategies to Build weeks, I, like most of you, have been at home consuming news and Engaging Digital 9-12 Blog feeling a daily mix of trepidation and astonishment. As a teacher, I Lessons for High School Students have been physically (and mostly digitally) apart from my students, wondering how they are and wishing I could help them.

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