Teachers
Secondary 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.
Kids' Connection is the teacher-friendly companion of National Public Radio's (NPR's) award-winning radio program Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, hosted by veteran science journalist Ira Flatow. Science Friday Kids' Connection has won its own awards, including being selected as a Digital Dozen site by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education.
Created by the Learning Technology Center at the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education (with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities), the Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the 12 Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets, you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to events in the presidents’ lives, and a multimedia exhibit featuring the key challenges and decisions each faced--including the stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Little Rock school integration, Gulf of Tonkin, Berlin Wall, and more. A special section for educators suggests activities that incorporate the site’s various resources; for example, a webquest on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution asks students to research the topic and answer the question, "As an editor of one of the most important and influential newspapers in the country, would you have supported the decision?"
NOVA Podcast: Hear brief audio stories from the world of science—from hurricanes to mummies to neutrinos—that expand on topics from NOVA TV programs.
NOVA Vodcast: Watch NOVA where you are with our video podcast, offering excerpts from our TV programs, video dispatches from producers in the field, animations, and more.
NOVA E = mc2 podcast: NOVA asked 10 top physicists to explain Einstein's famous equation. Subscribe to this feed to hear them.
This website comes with handy, classroom-specific
extensions that combine streaming video with classroom activity
ideas and suggested, related resources. Topics include credit
cards, budgeting, investing, and college planning.
Thanks to an online audio archive developed by professors at the University of Pennsylvania, recordings of Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams can take their places on students’ iPods alongside tunes from Better than Ezra or Carlos Santana. Recordings of these two poets’ works are now available free of charge through PennSound, which features about 200 writers and more than 10,000 recordings contributed by poets, fans, and scholars worldwide. The two-year-old site recently acquired rare readings by Pound, some previously unknown. Hearing any poet “makes the poems easier to move into, in some cases,” said Tree Swenson, director of the Academy of American Poets in New York. “Our ears are less logical than our eyes, somehow.” Pound in particular, she said, “is a perfect example of a poet whose tone and phrasing is so distinctive.” While many web sites stream poetry readings, they require an active internet connection. With PennSound, files are downloadable in MP3 format and can be played offline and on portable devices such as iPods, said Charles Bernstein, an English professor and the site’s co-director.
SciGuides is an online "science toolbox" for science
educators. It features specially developed guides to quickly
locate science content information on the web. Each subject-specific
SciGuide includes teaching resources from NSTA-reviewed
science web sites. NSTA says teachers can use SciGuides
to transform content offered on the site into effective
classroom resources by locating and incorporating online
lesson plans, tips for teaching the subject matter, and
effective student assessments.
Maryland Public Television's online, interactive "field trip" covering financial literacy offers articles, games, quizzes, and more. "Dream Prom" is one of the fun games on the site, asking students to plan and budget for the big night.
UTOPIA is your access point to the vast resources of The University
of Texas at Austin. Teachers will find TEKS aligned lesson
plans and activities.
KLRU Contact Information
Mary Alice Appleman
Assistant Director
Educational Services Dept.
E-mail: maappleman@klru.org
Voice: (512) 475-9051
