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Pbs Learning Media: Asu: Compass for Courage

For Students 3rd - 8th
COMPASS uses collaborative game-based learning to teach youth research-backed strategies to manage worries, solve problems, build relationships, and face stressful situations with confidence. This six-lesson plan has shown to improve...
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Pbs Learning Media: Tre Maison Dasan: Classroom Viewing Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Classroom Viewing Guide for use with the film Tre Maison Dasan.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sandy Hook Promise: Start With Hello: Student Leader Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This easy-to-use guide is designed to assist youth ambassador or peer leaders in delivering the Start With Hello program. It includes tips for getting started; key action steps and messages to emphasize; and ideas, activities and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 1 Practice Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Match It! Game Cards to print, cut out, and play at home. Characters (top row) and Feeling Words (bottom row). This game reinforces what students have learned about the ways anxiety, worry, or fear show itself. It can be completed...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this interactive lesson, students explore the extent to which society (and they themselves) may discriminate based on factors they're not even aware of, implicit biases. Why haven't laws been enough to eliminate discrimination? After...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Almost Sunrise: Lesson Plan: Moral Injury and the Moral Ambiguities of War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term many students may know. This lesson invites student to gain a deeper understanding of moral injury and develop greater empathy for the challenges returning veterans face. Using video...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Almost Sunrise: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term many young scholars may know. This lesson invites student to gain a deeper understanding of moral injury and develop greater empathy for the challenges returning veterans face. Using five...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that Native Americans...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: The Genius of Marian: The Art of Caregiving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students delve into the role of family members acting as caregivers for those who are ill, elderly, disabled or otherwise not able to care for themselves regularly and efficiently. Students examine what family caregivers...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Still Tomorrow: Lesson Plan: Stereotypes, Cerebral Palsy, and Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this multidisciplinary lesson, learners examine stereotypes about people with physical disabilities. Using clips from Still Tomorrow, a documentary about Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua, who has cerebral palsy, students will gain awareness of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Still Tomorrow: Lesson Plan Clips: Stereotypes, Cerebral Palsy, and Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this multidisciplinary lesson, learners examine stereotypes about people with physical disabilities. Using four video clips from Still Tomorrow, a documentary about Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua, who has cerebral palsy, students will gain...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Roll Red Roll: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When you witness an injustice, remaining silent or acting as a bystander is an active choice that is an impediment to justice. In this lesson students will have the opportunity to examine the consequences of remaining silent specifically...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: My Love, Don't Cross That River: Lesson Plan: Facing Aging, Loss and Grief

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Jin Mo-young's film My Love, Don't Cross that River documents the final years of a South Korean couple, 89-year-old Kang Gye-Yeol and 98-year-old Jo Byeong-Man, who have been married for 76 years. The film, which follows the couple over...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Motherland: Lesson Plan: Family Planning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Engaging youth in discussions about family planning is difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the general discomfort adolescents have talking with adults about sex. Sometimes it can be easier to talk about...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Gratitude Bingo: Grades 1 and 2

For Students K - 1st
A bilingual, weekly "Learn Along" Bingo card (one for PreK-K, one for Grades 1&2) will include a range of thematic learning opportunities for children to choose their own learning adventure. Emphasis will be on the PBS KIDS 24/7...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Sci Girl: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
SciGirls has the bold goal of changing how millions of girls think about science, technology, engineering and math -- or STEM. Each half-hour episode highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Odd Squad: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Welcome to Odd Squad: the zaniest, craziest team of kid investigators around! Explore content below targeted at making elementary-level math a fun, imaginative experience, mixing concepts like arithmetic and geometry with fantastical...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: New Year Reflections

For Students K - 1st
Look back on last year and set goals for next with this New Year reflections worksheet from PBS KIDS!
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Fetch Fone: Just a Minute Digital Game

For Students K - 1st
Children will learn measurement and the measureable attributes for time in this interactive game from FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. Ruff sometimes needs his assistant to do silly things. They have one minute to do things like spin around in...
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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: Global Oneness Project: Sports for Social Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students explore how participation in team sports can help empower youth in other areas of their lives. Students identify principles of how young people learn and discuss the ties between sports, civic engagement, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: At the Table: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Are farmers paid fairly? Does race play a role in food insecurity? Is our food system broken? "At The Table" is a Twin Cities PBS Original series, in partnership with the Cargill Foundation, that addresses the social and systemic issues...
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Pbs Learning Media: Roadtrip Nation Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Based on Roadtrip Nation's archive of interviews with inspiring professionals from all walks of life, the Roadtrip Nation collection includes engaging video interviews and interactive online tools to expose students to greater career...
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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...