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PBS Educator Resources | December 2022

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by Ian Cruz • Published on
KLRN Education

Dear Friends,

This month, we are focusing on the importance of being kind to each other and honoring each other. You are important and you make a truly positive difference in the world. Please explore the links below to watch a variety of excellent PBS programs we've curated for you this month. 

In addition, we're providing links with information on where and when you can watch the following programs on KLRN, on-air and online: Rosie's Rules, All Creatures Great and Small, Christmas at Belmont, America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston, Alma's Way, Donkey Hodie, and Great American Recipe.   

We also hope you will join us for our virtual educator sessions: 12/01: The Universe: Teaching Resources from PBS LearningMedia, 12/10: KLRN & The Healthy Kids Project - Healthy Comfort Foods, and 12/13: Building Social-Emotional Learning Through Children's PBS Programs.

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.

On PBS Learning Media, 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/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: 

 

All About the Holidays: Winter Holidays (Grades K-5): Have you ever stopped to wonder why we wear Halloween costumes, celebrate Thanksgiving in November, or choose valentines in February? These familiar traditions have fascinating and sometimes surprising origins. Get to know the history and significance behind these U.S. holidays (and more!) with this new collection of resources.

 

Faces of America (All Grades): What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The lesson plans and media resources based on the series address a wide range of topics including historic waves of immigration, anti-immigrant sentiment, family genealogy, and state-of-the-art genetic research. Through this collection, students will gain a broader perspective of America’s immigrant history (both past and present) and learn what it really means to be an American.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Grades 6-12) In 1945, the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt began working to defend and expand human rights worldwide. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman appointed Roosevelt to the U.S. Delegation of the United Nations, acknowledging Roosevelt’s deep commitment to protecting human rights. As head of the Human Rights Commission, Roosevelt was instrumental in creating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which was approved unanimously by the UN in late 1948. The Declaration was the first step in the process of formulating the International Bill of Human Rights, which was completed in 1966.

 

Where Words Touch the Earth (Grades 3-12) Students from American Indian Tribal Colleges interview Elders, other students, and community members to provide a Native American perspective on climate change and its effects on their communities.

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.

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.

As always, at the bottom of this post, you will find a list of links of organizations, both local and nationally, that provide mental health resources. Please know that the world is nicer because you are in it. Reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org. 

With appreciation,

KLRN Education Team

 

Mental Health Resources

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