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About NOW Classroom
NOW on PBS launched NOW Classroom at the Teaching and Learning Celebration in March 2008. Developed with the assistance of the NOW Educator Advisory Panel and PBS Teachers, the site allows teachers to select skill-based activities and lessons, and then incorporate their choice of NOW on PBS programs.
NOW Classroom activities are divided into seven modules: SAT Essay Prep, SAT Critical Reading Prep, Current Events Awareness, Persuasive Writing, News Writing and Reporting, General Reading Comprehension, and Developing Informed Opinions. We feel these modules cover the areas in which NOW on PBS is most helpful as a teaching tool, based on our mission expertise.
NOW topics cover many teachable themes, including the environment, government in action, social policy, education, media, the economy, the military, and business. We've created a variety of search and browse tools to help you locate relevant reports that will resonate with your students.
Also facilitating the NOW Classroom mission is the class-friendly length of our broadcast and Web-exclusive investigations. Most are shorter than 30 minutes.
Add to this the award-winning integrity of NOW on PBS and you have a rich educational tool to expand the minds and skills of your students -- the next generation of American thinkers and leaders.
We wish you the best of luck, and encourage you to contact us. Send e-mail comments and questions to Joel Schwartzberg at schwartzbergj@thirteen.org.
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