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Association for Educational Communications & Technology: Learning From Tv
Research regarding what is internalized and learned from television and the responsibility parents and educators have helping students to decipher between reality and fabrication. Media literacy, or how a viewer perceives what they are...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Joan Ganz Cooney
She invented fun, educational television for preschoolers -- creating an institution with a measurable, positive impact on millions of children.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Trillion Dollar Footprint: Grades 6 8
Students learn that they have a digital footprint, which can be searched, shared, and seen by a large, invisible audience. They then learn that they can take some control over their digital footprint based on what they post online. They...
Careers New Zealand
Careers New Zealand: Film/television Camera Operator
This resource provides information about the career of a camera operator. Information includes typical tasks and duties, personal requirements needed for the job, education requirements, typical working conditions, salary, and future job...
Kentucky Educational Television
Kentucky Educational Television: Geology and the Civil War: Battle of Perryville
An interesting look at the Battle of Perryville based on the geology of the region. A map shows the initial and final positions of both the Union and Confederate armies.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Iconoscope 1923
American inventor Vladimir Zworykin, the "father of television," conceived two components key to that invention: the iconoscope and the kinescope.
Other
National Defense Education Program: Lab Tv
A collection of videos showing real-world research taking place in Department of Defense laboratories. Each is accompanied by a brief description as well as a list of related concepts and links.
Careers New Zealand
Careers New Zealand: Media Producer
An informative page on the career field of a media producer. Content discussed includes general tasks and duties, educational requirements, personal skills needed, working conditions, expected salary, and job outlook. Also given is a...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sports Screeners
Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Nasa Online: Using Nasa Technology to Track Hurricanes
Learn how technology is used to track the formation, development and movement of hurricanes.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: A Natural State
Learn how South Carolina artists bond with nature, using natural materials and taking inspiration from the natural world around them to make art.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1940 1959
Defense-related research leads to the computer, the world enters the atomic age and TV conquers America.
Other
National Initiatives Concerning Information and Communication Technology Mexico
This article describes how the Mexican school system is changing through the use of educational programming and television.
A&E Television
History.com: How Eleanor Roosevelt Pushed for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In the wake of World War II's horrors, Roosevelt saw the need to support refugees and affirm the right to education, shelter, and medical care. Roosevelt was there to speak about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document...
A&E Television
History.com: 6 Inventions That Transformed Housework
Electric appliances large and small promised reduced drudgery. Most people take washers and refrigerators for granted today, a century ago, these machines revolutionized people's daily lives. The introduction of running water and...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Studio: How Do You Make a Cast?
Interactive Flash resource teaches how sculptors make casts of objects from a mold.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Nasa Online: Sound: How Sound Travels
An animation explaining how sound travels and demonstrating how sound transmission is affected by environment.
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Idaho: Just for Kids
The state provides links for children and teens and their families: everything from mammoths to homework help.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Nasa Online: Smell: Common Causes of Household Odors
An explanation of how fungi and bacteria create unpleasant odors in a home environment.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Risky Business
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore odds ratios and risk ratios. Framed in the context of a possibly contaminated playground on which children who play show signs of toxic exposure, students...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Exponential Growth
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of exponential growth, especially in comparison to linear growth. This is done in the context of weekly allowances, in which one group earns a...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Carl Edwin Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman is one of three physicists credited with the discovery of a fifth phase of matter, for which he was awarded a share of the prestigious Nobel Prize in 2001. The recognition capped a distinguished career that began deep...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1910 1929
Scientists' understanding of the structure of the atom and of its component particles grows, the phone and radio become common, and the modern television is born.