Bring+Classroom+Lessons+to+Life+with+PBS+Resources

= **Tuesday, August 24** = = **12:30-1:45** =

=**Session**= "Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life." Learn about several of the fantastic web resources for teachers and students provided by the Public Broadcasting Service. Discover the types of resources available, how to find them and how to use them in your classroom through a guided tour.

=**Presenter**= Mary Anne Kirk, Educational Services Manager, Think TV Network

=**Hosted by:**= Cindy Griffith, K-8 Media Specialist Director, Ross Local Schools

=**Course Objectives**=

**After participating in this professional development you will be able to:**

 * effectively navigate PBS websites to find free classroom resources and
 * understand how to download and integrate these resources into your curriculum.

**Think TV**[[image:Think_TV.png width="100" height="91" align="right" link="@http://www.thinktv.org/education/educ_k12.html"]]
Think TV offers creative, powerful instructional classroom tools including media-on-demand, multimedia materials, and professional development opportunities. Download free lesson plans for multimedia and web-based curriculum, instructional guides, resources and more to help enrich your students’ learning experiences.

**PBS Teachers**[[image:PBS.png width="246" height="80" align="right" link="@http://www.pbs.org/teachers/"]]
PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for free, high-quality preK-12 educational resources for teaching and learning. You will find thousands of classroom materials such as: lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more. PBS Teachers also offers high quality online professional development with more than 130 top quality, graduate level courses for educators that span the entire curriculum: Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies, and Science.

**Teachers' Domain**[[image:tchrs_domain.png align="right" link="@http://www.teachersdomain.org/"]]
Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development. Resources are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Types of resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities.



**CET Learning Services**
//Teaching Children in New Ways//: CET, the PBS station and Educational Technology Agency for Greater Cincinnati connects educators with a wealth of technology, resources and support services such as: instructional television and media, award-winning mulitmedia curriculum kits, high-quality professional development and enrichment workshops for teachers in grades K–12, a unique Arts Integration program, and workshops for parents, childcare providers, teachers and other early childhood advocates.

[[image:Nova.png align="right" link="@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/"]]**NOVA Teachers**
NOVA Teachers provides free, online, science resources. You will find classroom-based interactives for use in the classroom, each with an array of supporting materials, media-rich lesson ideas and teacher's guides including classroom activities, TV program descriptions and related NOVA resources. Mine NOVA's vast library of resources and make science come alive for your students!

Click here to sign up for this course
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