This activity, 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...

Based on the animated story "Suki's Bone" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, this lesson introduces children to informative/explanatory and procedural texts and the purposes they serve. In the video, Molly's dog Suki uncovers a...

Help 5th through 7th graders explore the power of words and their capacity to influence our thinking with this lesson from the Media Awareness Network. An easy-to-print .pdf version is linked from the top of the page.

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...

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...

This lesson plan, 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,...

This lesson, 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 hearing...

This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...

Students will learn the basic concepts necessary to produce broadcast quality audio recordings of human speech (which can then be used in professional radio or television productions). Lesson 1 of 3.

Learners begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. They explore background information about the Mercury Theatre production of the "War of the...

Student Reporting Labs (SRL) creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire youth to find their voice and engage with their communities. SRL lesson plans, assignment prompts and instruction tools...

This lesson is on the ironclad ships and the battles that took place during the Civil War. Students will use the information from previous lessons to create a simulated newscast that takes place during an actual battle between ironclad...

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.

Workshop lesson plan to help children understand the importance of healthy eating. Geared to both teachers and parents, this plan provides activities, book titles that are relevant, and charts and pictures to print out.

A lesson where students examine documentary photographs, the events that were taking place when they were taken, and where they fit into American history. They will also look at the effect a photograph can have on people's emotions, and...

This interactive lesson plan allows students to study and analyze the text concepts of character, conflict, resolution, and setting in a "Broadcast news," format.

This lesson not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary devices:...

Broadcast journalist, Leslie Dodson, presents research that focuses on the intersection of micro-enterprise and digital technologies in developing communities in Africa. Dodson discusses how hard it is to be a journalist and the special...

Teams of students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter that can receive FM broadcasts. Lesson focuses on how advances in radio communications have impacted...

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...

A lesson that leads students to an understanding of the time constraints on broadcast news by applying data-collecting and data-display skills. Students will learn to identify the main difference between publicly funded news programs...

PBS NewsHour Classroom helps teachers and students identify the who, what, when, where, and why-it-matters of news stories. In partnership with PBS LearningMedia, we are proud to bring you Daily News Lessons which takes the best of the...

As teachers, students, and families enter an uncertain school year with new routines, both in-person and virtual, PBS LearningMedia offers this special collection of flexible resources to support learning from anywhere. Find videos,...

Use this lesson to take a closer look at what the visual arts can tell us about the emotional effects of migration, both voluntary and involuntary. Lesson includes sample video excerpts from the broadcast, slideshows of the work of...