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KLRN Educator Resources | October 2023

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Ian Cruz
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Dear Friends,

This month, please enjoy these outstanding programs in KLRN: Sesame Street, Alma's Way, Rosie's Rules, and Power Trip Season 2. For a full list of the KLRN television schedule, please click here.

On October 14, right before 12pm (11:52am), we hope you will see the annular eclipse! Here is KLRN’s special eclipse blog post with resources including videos, and a map of eclipse viewing locations around the city. 

 

 

Power Trip Season 2 continues this month on KLRN World (channel 9.2). Explore this exceptional series including SPACE, DISASTERS, WORK, ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURE, and GLOBALIZATION on KLRN 9.2 here.

On air and online, KLRN PBS provides high-quality, free, state standards-aligned programs and educational resources. In this blog post, you will find links to KLRN television programs and supplemental learning materials on PBS LearningMedia. Visit https://klrn.pbslearningmedia.org/signup/ to set up an account to access any of the thousands of state standards-aligned educational resources for free! Some highlighted collections we recommend this month are: 

Alma's Way follows 6-year-old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group of close-knit friends and community members. In every episode, Alma’s Way aims to model self-awareness, self-advocacy, social awareness, cultural competency and responsible decision-making—encouraging kids to generate and value their own ideas and questions. Alma’s Way celebrates and explores the thinking process—Alma’s “way” is to think things through! As she shares her observations and feelings and works through challenges, she speaks directly to young viewers, offering them a window into her everyday life.

 

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.

Sesame Street (Grades PreK-2): Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos, games, and printable materials to help you to excite even the youngest learners. Plus, check out more from Sesame Street, including cross-platform educational games spanning wide-ranging curricular topics and STEM educator guides - just browse through this collection page!

Matlachines | Dance Arts Toolkit (All Grades) Matlachines is a traditional dance from Aguascalientes. The dance originates from a combination of pre-hispanic and colonial music and dance. It is often performed during Patron Saint Festivals. This version of Matlachines was performed by Casa de Cultura Hispana de Lexington and taped at the Festival del Dia de los Muertos in Lexington, Ky.

Cesar Chavez | Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist Video (Grades 3-8) Migrant farm workers in the United States were exploited routinely by the agricultural industry, which forced them to work in unsafe conditions for little pay. They had no political representation or advocates until Cesar Chavez established the United Farm Workers, the first successful union for farm laborers. Students will watch a short video and examine two primary sources in order to understand how Chavez was able to successfully organize a movement among some of America’s poorest and most oppressed workers.

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.

During the school year, KLRN offers free virtual teacher training sessions, generously supported by Firstmark Credit Union and The San Antonio Medical Foundation. To find out more about KLRN’s upcoming training sessions and community events, please visit the KLRN Events Page. Please reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org.

With appreciation,

KLRN Education Team

 

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