Whether you are teaching a virtual or in person classroom KLRN is excited to continue to offer monthly TEKS aligned teacher resources for you to utilize in your lesson planning.
For additional resources check out these links:
- PBS Teacher Planning Kit
- Bilingual Resources to help Young Children Deal with Weather Emergencies
- Free KLRN Teacher Trainings (TEKS Aligned and CPE Credit awarded)
Illustrative Math
Air Date: Tuesday, March 2 at 11am on 9.2
Link to Video Player for Eureka Math 6 and For Parents of Young Children: PBS Parenting Minutes: Everyday Math
Grade 3
Area Basics: Area of Rectangles and the Distributive Property
Learn how to use the distributive property to determine the area of rectangles.
Grades 5-7
- Equivalent Expressions with the Distributive Property
This animated Math Shorts video explains how the distributive property can help students model and create equivalent expressions. In the accompanying classroom activity, students play a quick game where they identify common factors within an expression and work on a series of problems that expand their understanding of how to apply the distributive property. While the problems begin with whole number expressions, students soon work toward algebraic notation and eventually develop the idea that ax + bx can be rewritten as x(a + b). This resource is part of the Math at the Core: Middle School Collection.
- The Distributive Property, Part 1 available in English and Spanish: Distributive Properties: Grade 6 (in English) & La Propiedad Distributiva: Grado 6 (en espanol)
Black Hole Apocalypse/Black Hole Universe
Air Date: Wednesday, March 3 at 11am on 9.2
Link to Video Player for PBS Program How Black Holes Spin Space Time
Grade PreK-3
- Ready Jet Go! What is a Black Hole?
Careful not to get sucked in! In this clip from Ready Jet Go!, Sean explains to his friend that a black hole forms when a star collapses. The gravity in the black hole is so strong that even a small black hole can contain many different stars.
Grade 6-12
- Black Hole Apocalypse: Visit a Black Hole
Imagine what it would be like to visit a black hole, and experience falling into one, in this video from NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse. Animations illustrate the gravitational effects of a black hole, including the distortion of distant starlight by gravitational lensing and time dilation. Theoretically, if a person were to fall into a black hole of about 10 solar masses, to an outside observer, she would appear to slow down and get stuck without ever actually passing the event horizon. However, to the falling person, time would seem to pass normally as she falls. She would be stretched—“spaghettified”—until she was torn apart and crushed into an infinitely small point. This resource is part of the NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse Collection.
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: Civilizations
Air Date: Wednesday, March 10 at 11am on 9.2
Link to Video Player for PBS Program: Decibel: Austin's Water Pressures
Grade K-2
- Moving Water
Explore how water found in oceans, rivers, and other water bodies changes form and flows downward in this video gallery produced by WGBH. Liquid water is found in water bodies across the planet. In locations where freezing temperatures occur, liquid water turns to solid ice. Students can use the video gallery to explore and identify characteristics of water and describe how water is found in different forms in different locations on Earth. Video is available in English and Spanish.
Grades 3-12
- Earth Water Filter
Designing a filter that turns black, salty, muck into drinkable water is a tall order. In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members take cues from what they know about natural sediment filters—the kind that produce underground spring water—and use similar materials to create their own mini water filters.
- Water Pollution Investigation
Water pollution is the contamination of water resources by harmful wastes or toxins. This type of pollution can be dangerous to animals and plant populations in and around lakes, rivers, polluted groundwater areas or oceans, and can pose major problems for humans as well. Explore the detrimental effects of plastic waste pollution on the San Francisco Bay—specifically, mercury contamination, with this resource group from QUEST.
Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years
Air Date: Thursday, March 11 at 7pm on 9.1
Link to Video Player for PBS Program: Música Sin Fronteras
Grade PreK-1
- Music!
Enjoy this music-making storybook lesson with a very musical kindergartner named Violet. Practice retelling a story using characters, setting and key details. Vote for your favorite musical videos and make your own instruments at home!
Grades 3-8
- Music: Re-Mix Studio
In this interactive, students can practice being music producers. They can select a type of music, such as Boogie-Woogie, Classical or Rap, and re-mix it.
Grades 4-12
- Kandinsky Experiment: The Majesty of Music and Math
Learn how gestures of drawing can create melodies, and the effects you can create combining visual and musical elements.
Climate Change: The Facts
Air Date: Wednesday, March 31 at 8pm on 9.1
Link to Video Player for PBS Program: Can Trees Really Fight Climate Change? and The Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Grade K-3
- Conserving Non-Renewable Resources
Learn why it is important to be careful when using non-renewable resources in this video from CYBERCHASE. Students discover that most electricity currently comes from burning gas, oil, and coal, which are all resources that cannot be replaced once they are consumed. Refer to the accompanying discussion questions, renewable energy coloring book from Solar1, and teaching tips for ideas on using this video with students and to help them consider ways to use electricity wisely. Video is available in English and Spanish. Discussion questions and vocabulary terms are available in Spanish in the Support Materials.
Grade 3-12
- Climate Change is Changing When Plants Grow
Use this media gallery from Climate Central to explore how climate change is shifting growing seasons across the country. In the accompanying classroom activity, students can use the video and interactive as a starting point to explore how ecological relationships shift when one member of the ecosystem is affected by climate change. Students analyze data from various states and create a graph exploring changes in growing seasons in the accompanying teaching tips.
Grade 6-12
- Climate Change
Weather is notoriously unpredictable. From one moment to the next, any of dozens of atmospheric variables can change to create a new weather event. In contrast, climate descriptions, which identify average and normal temperatures and precipitation levels, tend to be perceived as stable, at least over time scales that humans can easily relate to. However, that hasn't always been the case. This video segment adapted from NOVA describes climate data that suggest the Earth has undergone dramatic climate shifts in relatively short spans of time.