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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Zora Neale Hurston Video: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

For Students K - 1st
Learn about Zora Neale Hurston with this video clip, printable biosketch reader, and support materials. About the Show: "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" is a PBS KIDS show based on the popular book series, "Ordinary People Change...
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Creating Multimodal Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This website is an evolving compilation of resources designed to support the development of student multimodal authoring at all year levels. It features examples of different types of student multimodal compositions (both print and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the instructional activity, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will...
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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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Google

Google: Experiments With Google: Creatability

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring how creative tools can be made more accessible for everyone. This is an excellent set of digital resources for students to try analyzing how easy they are to use and how effective they would be for those with disabilities.
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Delaware Art Museum: The Art of Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the image collections of the Delaware Art Museum through storytelling. Read and/or listen to stories that others have told about artwork in the museum. Use interactive media to tell or picture a story. Includes lesson plans...
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Etv Commission: Artopia

For Students 9th - 10th
Artopia is utopia for artists and artist wannabes alike. Each gallery allows students to complete interactive activities, watch videos, read about artists, and practice being an art critic. The gallery areas are music, theater painting,...
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Common Sense Media: The Power of Words [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider that while they are enjoying their favorite websites they may encounter messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. They explore ways to handle cyberbullying and how to respond in the...
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Other

Online Journalism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site for analyzing the effectiveness and techniques of several aspects of web news. Pop up windows guide viewers to important questions about what they will view.
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Other

Ecoarttech: We Make Art in the Biological, Cultural, Digital Wilderness

For Students 9th - 10th
Website containing images, descriptions, and news about art created by ecoarttech. The art created by this collaborative combines nature with technology.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 2 11 13: Mathematician Unveils World's Biggest Prime Number

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the recent discovery of the longest known prime number, which is 17, 425,170 digits long.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 4: Digital Activity Stand Up Game (Grades 3 5)

For Students 3rd - 5th
This game offers students Grades 3-5 a chance to read and discuss different situations and consider how they would handle each using the practice using S.A.F.E. to be assertive. Play online within PBS LearningMedia or select the download...
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Other

The Working Reporter: A Resource for Journalists

For Students 9th - 10th
A great all-in-one news site, the Working Reporter provides national and international news, updated constantly with a running ticker so you can add to your own Web page for free.
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News Lab: Elements of Great Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a great site for broadcast journalists; it focuses on the elements that make a story great. You can find tips on writing from some of the top people in the industry.
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Other

Tech in Ctrl: Ethics/copyright: What's Mine Isn't (Necessarily) Yours

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Sharing, reusing, or copying content is so easy that rarely do we pause to think about its original source. This lesson will give students the tools to navigate this often-complicated world of digital media and mass information by...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Two Points Determine a Line

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this video segment [2:10] from Cyberchase, Digit must make a straight line between the two points and then follow the path created.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Puzzle of the Amulet of Amagansett

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Wicked and Digit use what they know about fractions to figure out how many jewels are missing from the Amulet of Amagansett.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solving the Sphinx's Fraction Problem

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, Wicked and Digit solve a fraction puzzle in order to move on in their quest to save the CyberSquad.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Catching the Kidnapper

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad and Digit construct a physical profile of the person who kidnapped Choocroca, a giant cybercrocodile. [2:49]
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Bio Media Associates: Learning Programs for Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides photographs, animations, essays, teaching resources, multimedia, and other information about biological systems and organisms. It features a monthly contest and quiz in which students and teachers identify a mystery...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Several Short Rails Make More Than a Whole

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Hacker has sabotaged another section of the Madre Bonita Express track; Digit gets help from Deci in adding decimals to find the right size rail that will repair the track.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Axle the Freeway Cat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, a lonely cat meets a new friend in a traffic jam.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Trial & Tribulation: Racism and Justice in Minnesota

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the Twin Cities PBS digital storytelling project Racism Unveiled, this episode examines 2020 and the last 100 years of Minnesota's deep racist history. The episode examines the following pressing questions: How did this happen?...
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Education Development Center

Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This tool kit makes the case that critical and creative use of multimedia authoring tools such as PowerPoint must be taught to students. Lessons, background material, assessment and interactive activities are included.

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