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Teachers
Elementary Resources
Here are some highlights:
This PBS Web site encourages kids to explore sustainability and take action wherever they can. There is a free Activity Guide to educators who work with 9 to 12-year olds. How-to information pairs hands-on activities to deepen kids' understanding of topics like recycling and global warming with campaigns to reduce junk mail and get drivers to stop idling cars.
Explore this wonderful kid's site on early New York City history. Kids can seach by a timeline or by topics, such as, Coming To America, Building the Big Apple, Arts & Entertainment, Business & Politics and New York Living.
This is a current event site for elementary and
middle school students. The five animated corespondents
bring kids stories on national and global events; sports;
arts and technology; and the weather. The site includes
video excerpts from the NewsHour and also invites students
to create and submit their own current events reports. Lesson
plans for classroom use are included.
This Web site operates on the idea that in the year 1600 Shakespeare has stared a new theater company made up entirely of kids, and needs more players to fill the parts of his play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." There is resources for teachers, parents, and administrators interested in exploring the profound educational benefits of integrating Shakespeare into the K-8 Language Arts curriculum.
This new site on pbskids.org expands kids' vocabulary through an engaging superhero action adventure. Can our heroine Word Girl thwart the villainous "Chuck, the Evil Sandwich Making Guy?" Find out through streaming video sements, interactive games, lesson plans and more.
Given the enormous popularity of YouTube, it's not surprising that an education-specific version of this video-sharing web site should emerge -- and on March 6, that's just what happened. TeacherTube, the brainchild of 14-year education veteran Jason Smith, gives teachers a more educationally focused, safe venue to watch and upload videos that help demonstrate a new concept or skill, address specific learning objectives, or provide professional development for their fellow educators
KLRU Contact Information
Mary Alice Appleman
Assistant Director
Educational Services Dept.
E-mail: maappleman@klru.org
Voice: (512) 475-9051
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