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Earth Day and Poetry Rsources from WOUB Learning Lab

Posted on: Sunday, April 21, 2024

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NOVA Lab

PBS Learning Media

The interactive NOVA Polar Lab uses 360° videos, interviews with scientists, and mini-games to send students on an immersive quest to understand how the poles are key to understanding Earth’s climate—past, present, and future.

Polar Lab

Futures Literacy Collection

PBS Learning Media GR 6 – 12

The future is not yet written, which means we have the power to design it. Inspired by futurist Ari Wallach’s A Brief History of the Future, these resources introduce students to the ideas and practices of future thinking and provide activities that let learners brainstorm the positive future they want to live, work and play in.

Futures Literacy Collection

National Poetry Month

Shakespeare’s Birthday

Enjoy these great literacy activities for students of all ages

Shakespeare or Taylor Swift

Test your ability to identify if a line is from Shakespeare or Taylor Swift in this video from the National Theater. Cast members from Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet are presented with quotes and have to decide whether they are from the bard of today or the past! Support materials ask students to extend the game by coming up with their own version using a different songwriter.

Sons of Poetry / Sesame Street

The Sons of Poetry circle their bikes to find the perfect rhyme. Explore poetry and practice rhyming with this parody video.

Shakespeare: The Intersection of Art & Life Timeline

Discover major events in William Shakespeare’s life through The Intersection of Art and Life, an interactive timeline. The timeline spans from Shakespeare’s birth in 1564 to the post-mortem publication of his First Folio in 1624. Explore the impact of personal events on the poet and playwright’s masterpieces and watch segments from film adaptations of his plays.

Illustration a girl using a magnifying glass to look at a bug and a boy with a shovel planting a flower

Explore the Outdoors

PBS Kids Climate Resources

Use the Explore the Outdoors collection on PBS Learning Media to teach young learners about Earth Day. This collection contains 33 videos, three media galleries, 25 interactive lessons, three lesson plans, and one web page. It also includes 29 resources in Spanish.

Explore the Outdoors Collection

Teacher Reporting Labs

Teacher Reporting Labs, a new three-episode pilot podcast that pairs teachers for candid conversations about the challenges and triumphs in the classroom, launched Friday, April 11th with more episodes on April 19 and April 26.

The first episode, Beyond the Curriculum, features Krista McKim of Rockville High School and Dr. Sequoyah Wharton of Brentwood High School. Teacher Reporting Labs is produced by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs and distributed by PRX.

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Young girl in front of a banner that says happy Birthday

Alma’s Way Birthday Party

PBS KIDS for Parents

Looking for some fun Latino-inspired birthday party ideas from one of your favorite PBS kids characters? This article from PBS KIDS for parents shares lots of Alma-inspired party ideas

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