Learning Lab

September Newsletter from WOUB Learning Lab

Posted on: Monday, September 4, 2023

scrabble pieces spelling out September surrounded by fall leaves and back to school items, a clock, pencil crayons.

Our Ohio High School Documentary Festival

It is once again time to begin our annual documentary festival. We had a great experience with two schools last year, but we would love to hear stories from all over our region. We are working on developing an outline for introducing the project to classes as well as support for classes along the way. If you are interested, please email us and we can work with you directly to see how we can involve your students in this year’s festival.

Call for Presenters

OETC 24

Are you doing some exciting things in educational technology? OETC24 would love to have you as a presenter. The presenter portal opened in July and will be open until Sept 15. This year’s conference is Feb 13 – 15, 2024 at the Columbus Convention Center. We’d love to highlight all the innovative work being done in our region. Please consider submitting a proposal.

Presenter Portal

FedEx worker transporting camp in the boxes on a pallet jack

They’re Here!

Camp-in-a-Box

Nature Camp (K-2)
Wild for Ohio (3-5)

We always get excited when the truck shows up with then next set of boxes. We know that these kits are full of exciting things because they were HEAVY! Camp-in-a-Box is a FREE set of materials for 5 activities for 20 students paid for by the Ohio Learns 360 grant. They are designed for out of school programs like after school care. They have been very popular and they go fast. If you would like to have a set for your program or learn more, email us for more information, but hurry they won’t last long.

Children dipping their paint brushes in paint.

Spark Creativity In Your Classroom

PBS Learning Media – Creative Collection

Let’s get creative! Bring dance, music, theater, and visual art into your classroom with these standards-aligned resources. Find lesson plans, videos, and interactive activities that will open up a creative world. Dive into the dynamic history of dance, encourage your students to appreciate different time periods and genres of music, discover the captivating world of theater, and explore and analyze the many forms of visual art.

Creativity Resources

PBS Digital Studios

PBS Learning Media

PBS Digital Studios is a network that connects, inspires, and cultivates the next generation of public media enthusiasts by creating thought-provoking programs that illuminate the world around us.

Explore these teacher-curated selections from the Digital Studios library. The engaging, educational, and entertaining short videos will grab students’ attention, provide an entry point or supplement to exploring featured topics, and, we hope, inspire your students to create media projects of their own.

PBS Digital Studios Collection

How to help young kids coping with separation anxiety

PBS KIDS for Parents

It’s only natural for kids to feel anxious when saying goodbye to their parents. In fact, separation anxiety is a normal part of child development. As you prepare to drop your child off at school, try these ideas to help your child cope with separation anxiety.

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Jamming on the Job

Podcast

Just in time for the back-to-school season, things will kick off September 14, with a new original podcast series, JAMMING ON THE JOB, which introduces kids to a variety of interesting jobs while helping them see how their own interests and skills relate to those of the professionals they meet in the series. Listeners will join Christina Sanabria and Andrés Salguero, the Latin Grammy Award-winning kids’ music duo known as 123 Andrés, as they tour the United States performing songs about the “world of work.” At each tour stop, they meet a grownup with an interesting job who helps them solve a problem. As the duo learns about the “career-of-the-day” and the skills needed to be successful in that job, they then write a brand new song about it with help from their magic music-making machine: BoomBox, voiced by Grammy-nominated musician Pierce Freelon.

Jamming on the Job

Worried child holding hands with their mother.

4 Things to Do When Your Child Is Worried

PBS KIDS for Parents

When your child feels worried, you can help them uncover their worries. This article by Lindsey Pruett-Hornbaker for PBS KIDS for Parents shares four things you can do to help your child understand and work through worries.

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Facing Back to School Transitions

PBS KIDS for Parents

This collection of resources talks about challenging transitions children face such as after school meltdowns and focusing attention. There are articles and activities for caregivers to support children learning about transitions.

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