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Teachers

Welcome Educators. Use this site to help turn your classroom into a multi-media environment. Find TV programs about specific subjects, Web sites to complement your lessons, professional development opportunities and more by choosing from the links on the right.

PBS Teacherline

Facilitated professional development training done online, on your schedule, for your classroom.

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Search by keyword or subject for educational programs broadcast on KLRU.

Media Infusion

Walt Whitman

May Blog: Sold Out: Celebrating Academic Achievement through Digital Storytelling

TV Highlights

Giant flying bird puppet in the Magic Flute

Review upcoming PBS programs and web sites for use in your classroom.

Special Picks

  • Got Game? --This site offers information about the educational value of video and computer games. The site includes a glossary, a tour of different types of educational games, educational games in the news, a blog, and an annotated guide to games out on the Web.
  • Neuroscience for Kids --The smell of a flower - The memory of a walk in the park - The pain of stepping on a nail. These experiences are made possible by the 3 pounds of tissue in our heads...the BRAIN!! Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn about the nervous system. Discover the exciting world of the brain, spinal cord, neurons and the senses. Use the experiments, activities and games to help you learn about the nervous system. There are plenty of links to other web sites for you to explore.
  • Teach Kids to Protect the Earth and Themselves -- Mitchell Kriegman, creator of PBS KIDS' "It's a Big Big World," is leading a discussion about how we can encourage children to lead the fight for our environment and their health. Learn how to realize one of Snook's big lessons: "children need to teach parents how to clean up after themselves."
  • Grant for Innovative Solutions to Tobacco Control
    Deadline: May 23, 2008
    American Legacy Foundation Small Innovative Grants Program supports projects that advance creative promising solutions based on sound principles of tobacco control to remedy the harm caused by tobacco use in America. The program must demonstrate an element of creativity, ingenuity or innovation.