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KLRN Educator Resources | August 2025

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An image of Weather Hunters, a new show from PBS KIDS. A Black family of five dressed in blue raincoats stands in front of a map of the U.S.
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Dear Friends,

Welcome back to school! We missed you and hope you had a lovely summer! Below, you will find featured programs and aligned activities, along with information in upcoming teacher sessions and events! Also, some exciting news: WEATHER HUNTERS will premiere next month, September 8, 2025, on PBS KIDS in English and Spanish. WEATHER HUNTERS is a new animated STEM series for viewers ages 5-8 from Al Roker Entertainment. The new show is designed to support kids’ learning about Earth science and meteorology through adventure and comedy to cultivate their awareness, curiosity, and caring about how weather and climate impact individuals, communities, and our global society.

  • Carl the Collector (7:30 am - weekdays on 9.1)
  • Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (8 am - weekdays on 9.1)
  • Rosie’s Rules (8:30 am - weekdays on 9.1)
  • Elinor Wonders Why (11am - weekdays on 9.1)


Please see the KLRN Schedule for details on these and even more great shows for the whole family!

Upcoming Educator Event: 

  • Friday, 8/22 from 6pm-9pm: Welcome Back Teachers: You Are Go for Launch! The Scobee Education Center is hosting the Welcome Back Teachers, You Are Go for Launch! networking social event on Friday, August 22, 2025, from 6pm-9pm to provide educators with a casual environment to tour & explore the programs offered by the Scobee Education Center and to meet with area informal education organizations from across our region.  Lead astronaut Joe Acaba has included a recorded welcome message to ‘launch into learning’ for the 2025-26 school year. Teachers are encouraged to register for this free event at:  https://forms.office.com/r/aANsSpFmWR

    FREE Environmental Educator Resources: Simplify Learning with FREE Environmental Educator Resources! The best way to Take Care of Texas is by learning about how we affect the natural environment of our state on a personal and community level. By educating yourself and others about Air, Water, and Waste topics, you are becoming a more environmentally conscious Texan! Gear up for Earth Month with FREE classroom activities. It's our way of celebrating and promoting environmental awareness in education. Did you know we have 100s of teacher resources? Many materials are available in English & Spanish, as well as available for download or to be shipped directly to you. Sign up here. 


FREE Virtual Educator Sessions from KLRN 
Join us for our August virtual sessions which, as always, are free of charge and offer continuing education credit!
 

  • Tuesday, 8/26 (from 6pm-8pm) 
    The Healthy Kids Project: Learning and Growing Together in the New School Year! Join KLRN for a fun session about starting the new school year with healthy habits! We will discuss building routines to accommodate healthy snack choices, fun activities that are available to everyone in any weather, and strategies for feeling calm and confident, because a new school year has a lot to it, but you’ve totally got this! This session is geared toward educators of PreK-2nd grade, but everyone is welcome to attend. Thank you to the San Antonio Medical Foundation for supporting this event. 2 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey.
    Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89524302915?pwd=VH1Ja7bdfkPyaWB3HabrmcowW6Ez7v.1
     
  • Thursday, 8/28 from 6-7pm - K-12 
    Resources from PBS LearningMedia: Welcome to Our Classroom Community! Join KLRN to kick off the new school year as a team! In this session, we will share resources about classroom routines, classroom management, and setting expectations. We will include resources from PBS LearningMedia. This session is open to educators of all grade levels. Thank you to CPS Energy for supporting this event. 1 hour of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey. 
    Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89650055904?pwd=GdNpaoE7nA66ax1pbnfWzVIvV03Edj.1
     

Please visit https://www.klrn.org/events/ to learn more and to register for any (or all!) of these sessions. Thank you to The San Antonio Medical Foundation and CPS Energy for generously supporting KLRN’s Educator Sessions. 

PBS LearningMedia Resources

On PBS LearningMedia, you can find thousands of high-quality educational resources for all grade levels for free! Setting up an account is easy to do (and completely free!) Visit https://klrn.pbslearningmedia.org/ to sign up today to get access to any of thousands of state standards-aligned educational resources for free! Here is a short video tutorial that explains how in a few quick steps, you can create an account and create class rosters, too. Some highlighted PBS LearningMedia collections and resources we recommend this month are: 

Carl the Collector (Grades PreK-5) Carl the Collector follows the everyday adventures of Carl, a warm-hearted autistic raccoon who loves collecting things. The show focuses on social and emotional learning, emphasizing self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills. It also explores self-identity through Carl’s perspective. Carl’s talents – a laser-focus pursuit of his goals, attention to detail, and a distinctive way of looking at and experiencing the world around him – have helped him amass a collection for just about every occasion. Carl has a lot of energy and is logical and precise, yet he often struggles with anxiety in new situations and has difficulty when things don’t go according to plan. Like all of his friends, he is learning that there is no right or wrong way to be himself. Carl and his friends work and play together to discover what makes each of us who we are—and just as importantly, what makes each person unique. The show celebrates and illustrates that, while we all have something in common, we are each unique and have something special to offer.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (Grades PreK-2) Social-emotional development and academic success are much more related than many people think. We often hear talk about the academic curriculum or the social-emotional approach to early education as if these are two separate things. Research tells us that for children to be successful in school, they must be mentally healthy and they must have good interpersonal skills. Emotional development skills include the ability to regulate behavior, to manage feelings, to feel competent in completing tasks, and confident in trying new things. To help boost these invaluable skills among preschoolers, each episode of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood consists of two engaging stories that center on a common early learning theme with catchy, musical strategies that reinforce each theme and that preschoolers and adults will both sing – and use! – together in their daily lives.

Rosie's Rules (Grades PreK-2)Rosie’s Rules is a new PBS KIDS® animated comedy series for preschoolers starring 5-year-old Rosie Fuentes, a Mexican-American girl just beginning to learn about the wow-mazing world. Rosie’s Rules aims to teach children concrete social studies lessons about how a community works, helping them develop an awareness of themselves as individuals and as part of a broader society. Like many children across the country, Rosie is part of a blended, multicultural family; Papá is from Mexico City and Mom is from rural Wisconsin. Rosie has a little brother, Iggy, and an older sister, Crystal, who is Mom’s child from her first marriage. The Fuentes family lives together in suburban Texas with their cat (and Rosie’s partner-in-crime), Gatita. Rosie is bilingual in English and Spanish and loves to celebrate her multicultural identity. Throughout the series, she joyfully introduces viewers to the art, traditions and foods of the Southwest, Midwest and Mexico.

Elinor Wonders Why (Grades PreK-2) Be curious with Elinor and her friends, Ari and Olive, in the PBS KIDS series Elinor Wonders Why. In this show, Elinor, an observant and curious bunny rabbit, Ari, a funny and imaginative bat, and Olive, a perceptive and warm elephant, follow their natural curiosity and seek out answers using their science inquiry skills. Find an array of resources—including interactive lessons, playlists, viewing guides, and printable activities—to encourage your students to ask questions, make observations, and bask in the wonderment of nature’s amazing answers!

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.

Thank you for what you do, and thank you for being you. You are special. In the words of Mister Rogers, “We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are." Reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org. 

With appreciation,

KLRN Education Team