Welcome Back, Friends! We hope you had a wonderful summer! Exciting news for Texas: this year, Texas will get to see two eclipses within just six months of each other: one will be on October 14, 2023, and one will be on April 8, 2024! There are excellent eclipse resources in our city! Please visit the KLRN Events Page and reach out to us at education@klrn.org for more information.
Some excellent programs you can see this month, right here on KLRN are: Ready Jet Go!: Space Camp, Nature Cat, Texas Parks and Wildlife,Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, Rosie's Rules, Elinor Wonders Why, Work It Out Wombats, and The Great American Recipe.
KLRN offers teacher training sessions each month. Thank you to Firstmark Credit Union for their sponsorship of educator training sessions. Please learn more about upcoming sessions and events at klrn.org/events.
We are honored to provide high-quality, free, state standards-aligned programs and educational resources that you can access both on air and online. In this blog post, you will find links to KLRN television programs and supplemental learning materials on PBS Learning Media. On PBS Learning Media, you can find resources focused on space for all ages, like NASA Planetary Sciences, Ready Jet Go!, Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms, and more! There is so much to learn about the universe, and on PBS Learning Media, you can find resources for all grade levels! Setting up an account is easy to do (and completely free!) Visit https://klrn.pbslearningmedia.org/signup/ and you can sign up with your email in just a few easy steps: enter your first and last name, email address, and create a password, and you are all set to access any of the over 30,000 state standards-aligned educational resources for free! Some highlighted collections we recommend this month are listed below. Welcome back to school, Friends! Here is to a fantastic school year! Reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org.
With appreciation,
KLRN Education Team
KLRN’s The Healthy Kids Project: (Grades PreK-2) The Healthy Kids Project uses song, movement, and animation in ten engaging lessons that support healthy choices and attitudes--teaching not only successful actions (limiting refined sugar, choosing water as a beverage, choosing fresh foods over processed foods), but also successful strategies (valuing the body, not letting past mistakes impede future success, taking one step at a time toward a goal, helping others to make good choices.) Each lesson contains a 60-second video and is accompanied by an overview, lesson plan and student activity. It’s a turnkey kit for teachers to impart critical life lessons about health, without taking time away from core subjects. These videos are available in English and Spanish.
Watt Watchers: (All Grades) Watt Watchers of Texas is a state-sponsored STEM program to help boost energy literacy for K-12 students and help schools save money by saving energy. Through the program, students, teachers, and families will have access to energy saving tips, activities, and lessons. Launched in 1985, Watt Watchers of Texas is an updated resource that builds upon the original beloved program and provides a modern look at energy, sustainability and conservation.These resources are available in English and Spanish.
Total Solar Eclipse Animation: (Grades 3-12): Solar eclipses result from the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth. Total solar eclipses — in which the Sun is completely blocked by the Moon — are a spectacular and rare sight to witness. In this animation adapted from NOVA, see why solar eclipses occur and observe a simulated total eclipse. This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions.
Observing the Moon in the Sky: (Grades 3-5) Observe images of the Moon during the day and night with this slideshow. The images can stimulate students’ thinking and questions about when and how the Moon appears in the sky and provide them with the opportunity to compare their own Moon observations with the Moon in the images. This resource is available in English and Spanish.
Solar Eclipses Explained: (Grades 6-8): Learn about the mechanics of solar and lunar eclipses with these videos and visualizations. Use this resource to view and engage with different ways of seeing how the alignments of the Moon, the Sun, and Earth result in eclipses and to provide opportunities for students to develop and use models or make evidence-based claims about eclipses. This resource is available in English and Spanish.
