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During these uncertain times, KLRN is adapting and creating educational resources in an easy-to-follow format. We aim to provide educational content and resources that support every family in our community.
We have added a new 4 PM time slot that aims at providing educational content for older school age students. You will find resources tied to each of these programs aired daily with lessons from our PBS LearningMedia site. With this weekly blog we hope that getting a sneak peak of what is airing the following week will help you as you plan lessons. We are also including Lesson plan ideas for you to use!!
We hope that this will help you as you plan your lessons for your students to Learn at Home.
All the best,
KLRN’s Education Team
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
Monday, April 27 at 4 PM
Meet the brilliant minds throughout history, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, responsible for creating the telescope. Today, their invention allows humanity to reach the furthest limits of seeing 13 billion light-years out.
Grades PreK-3
Observatory and Telescope | Ready Jet Go!
Ready for a little redecorating? In this clip from Ready Jet Go!, Jet and his friends give their treehouse a makeover and turn it into an observatory. Sydney and Sean also teach Jet what a telescope is, and how it's used by scientists to observe space.
Grades 6-12
Hubble Telescope: Looking Deep
Since its launch is 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with a vast amount of quality data and has contributed to a number of important discoveries. One of the best-known images — the Hubble Deep Field — shows some of the earliest and faintest galaxies ever seen. In this video segment adapted from the Space Telescope Science Institute, learn how the Hubble Space Telescope created this amazing picture of the early universe.
American Experience: Fight
Tuesday, April 28 at 4 PM
Explore the 1938 world heavyweight championship bout between Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling, who, in the shadow of war, became reluctant symbols of equality and supremacy, democracy and fascism.
Grades 3-7, 13+
Muhammad Ali | Boxer and Civil Rights Activist
Students will learn about the remarkable athletic achievements and advocacy of Muhammad Ali. After watching a biographical video, students will analyze a photograph taken during the height of the controversy over Ali’s refusal to fight in the Vietnam War, and they will read the transcript of a revealing interview Ali gave and answer questions about it. To conclude the lesson, students will choose a quotation to use for a motivational poster.
Kingdoms of the Sky: Himalaya
Wednesday, April 29 at 4 PM
Witness the extraordinary wildlife and remarkable people of Earth's highest mountain range, where Tibetan monks perform ancient rituals, snow leopards prowl the mountainsides and bizarre snub-nosed monkeys survive in frozen forests.
Grades 6-12
Tectonic Motion: Making the Himalayas | Nature: The Himalayas
The Himalayas are a prime example of how tectonic plate motion can manipulate the earth in extraordinary ways. These colliding plates resulted in the formation of the highest mountain range on the planet.
History Detectives #710
Thursday, April 30 at 4 PM
Stalag 17 Portrait - A Tempe, Arizona, woman has an intriguing memento of a sobering World War II experience: a portrait of her father sketched while he was held inside the German prisoner of war camp, Stalag 17B.
Seadrome - A Rochester, New York, man inherited three photos of a Seadrome model from his grandfather.
Black Tom Shell - A woman in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, has an explosive artifact in her possession: a large, intact artillery shell,along with a note in her mother's handwriting that reads "Black Tom Explosion of 1914."
Grades 4-12
- Detective Techniques: Preservation | History Detectives
Use these History Detective techniques for preserving papers, books, photographs and textiles. When it comes to preserving and maintaining your family's treasures, the guidelines are very simple. It's putting them into action that takes a little work. You can't turn back the clock, but you can protect your treasures for the future. - Patent and Invention Research | History Detectives
This History Detectives media gallery features a collection of resources illustrating research methodology for investigating patents and inventions.
American Epic: Blood & Soil
Friday, May 1 at 4 PM
Travel to the rural South as Elder Burch, Charley Patton and others record early Delta blues, gospel and protest songs. The Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi River communities, leading to northern migration and Chicago Blues by Howlin' Wolf.
Grades 9-12
Fatal Flood - Primary Resources: One Man's Experience
Born to an aristocratic white Mississippi family, Will Percy witnessed a seismic shift in his community following the 1927 flood. Read excerpts from his memoir, from American Experience: "Fatal Flood."
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
Monday, May 4 at 4 PM
The Airplane: Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci's "flying machines" to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.
Grades 4-6
Meet two model stunt plane pilots: Alex and Ryan. There are many models available and they want to know which plane features allow for the best stunts. Their question is: How does wing shape affect the plane's performance?
Grades 6-12
Airplanes: Designing for Stealth
This interactive activity from NOVA details some of the considerations aeronautical engineers make when designing an aircraft to avoid both human and electronic detection. It illustrates performance tradeoffs that may be required in the engineering design process to achieve stealth. For example, the ability to evade enemy radar detection and missile defense systems is more valuable than speed.
Native America: From Caves to Cosmos
Tuesday, May 5 at 4 PM
Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America's First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and waves off California's coast.
Grades 4-12
Why Teach Native American History? | Wyoming's Native Americans
In the accompanying lessons plans (found in the Support Materials), contributions of Washakie and Sacajawea will be highlighted, and stress the importance of teaching and learning about the unique history, culture, and contemporary contributions of Wyoming’s tribes on the Wind River Reservation in a culturally responsive manner.
Kingdoms of the Sky: The Rockies
Wednesday, May 6 at 4 PM
Experience the amazing wildlife and remarkable people who inhabit this 3,000-mile mountain range, home to cougars, wolverines, wolves and grizzlies. Daredevil wingsuit fliers jump from high peaks and Native Americans compete in breakneck horse races.
Grades 1-4
Rocky Mountain Roundup: Photo Scavenger Hunt
Players are challenged to complete a series of missions to photograph mountain plants and animals in the Canadian Rockies, in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING. Through the clues that Plum provides, players learn about mountain ecosystems, the plants and animals living there, and how they are adapted to mountain life.
Grades 6-12
Learn how abandoned mines have been contaminating water supplies in the Rocky Mountains in this video from NOVA: Poison in the Rockies. Beginning in the 1850s, prospectors dug deep mines in the Colorado Rockies in search of precious metals. Today, more than 15,000 abandoned metal mines have filled with acidic water that carries away heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and zinc into mountain streams. In small quantities, some metals are essential to life, but in larger quantities they are toxic. Some newer mines include safeguards to make them more environmentally sound.
History Detectives: Space Exploration
Thursday, May 7 at 4 PM
The HISTORY DETECTIVES season premiere launches into space for an exhilarating hour exploring the excitement, promise and ingenuity that fueled America's foray into space exploration. First, detective Tukufu Zuberi tracks a scrap of metallic Mylar that could be one of America's early satellites - balloons - in the segment "Satelloon." Then, in the segment "Moon Museum," Gwendolyn Wright investigates the audacious notion that Andy Warhol's art may be on the moon. Finally, in the "Space Boot" segment, Elyse Luray tries on a jury-rigged ski boot with a magnetic metal brick bolted to the bottom that may be one of the first prototypes for a NASA space boot.
Grades 4-12
Launch Party - The New Age of Space Exploration
The glory days of Cocoa Beach and the new dawn of space exploration marks the historical importance of the global space race.
Little Women on Masterpiece
Friday, May 8 at 4 PM
With their father away at war, sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March come to terms with their new life, alongside their mother, Marmee. The girls make friends with Laurie, the new boy next door.
Grades 6-12
Louisa May Alcott: Transcendentalism
Explore the impact of transcendentalism on the life of Louisa May Alcott and American society in this video from the American Masters film Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women.' Emphasizing self-reliance, civil disobedience, intuition, the importance of nature, and knowing oneself, transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau left a permanent mark on American identity and values. Alcott spent much of her life surrounded by deep thinkers like Emerson and Thoreau and echoes of their influence can be found in her writing and the way she lived her life. Engage students with discussion questions, a close reading of quotes from Emerson and Thoreau, and connections to the movement in popular culture today.
Training opportunity for teachers
At PBS, we are gathering FREE resources on PBS Learning Media to help the learning continue at home. You can choose from videos, interactive games, activities and TEKS-aligned lesson plans to teach your child from home. You can also use it with the Remind app, Google classroom, and you can even create folders for your own reference and to share with your students, colleagues, and families! To help navigate PBS Learning Media and this transition to digital learning, KLRN will be holding 1-hour online training sessions. Check our Event Page for a list of upcoming trainings!