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Henry Cole: a video interview

Source: WETA: Reading Rockets Video

Watch while this children's book illustrator talks about how his teaching background and lifelong love of nature make illustrating his perfect job. Discover the process he follows to illustrate a picture book. Details »

I Don't Ever Want to Smoke! Lesson Plan

Source: KLRN: A Healthy Start. A Healthy Life. Lesson Plan

Explore the harmful effects of cigarette smoking through activities available within this workshop guide. Learn how parents can use stories, video clips and fun activities to spend quality time with their children. Details »

Radial Design

Source: KLRN: Harding Black: An American Treasure Lesson Plan

Create a radial design to imitate Harding Black's ceramic glazes by using construction paper and crayons in regular and metallic colors. Details »

Color Exploration I

Source: WXXI: 60 Second Science Offline Activity/Project

Discover what primary colors are, and explore ways red, yellow and blue can be mixed to create new colors. Details »

Homemade Costume Challenge

Source: WTIU: The Friday Zone Video

Watch as these FRIDAY ZONE kids take the challenge to create their own Halloween costumes. Learn how to make the costumes for yourself. Details »

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PBS's cross-curricular, adaptive learning program for early child development is now available for classroom use. Filled with innovative educational games, the Classroom Edition covers content in mathematics, science, language development, literacy, creativity, healthy development and social studies. In addition the Classroom Edition has been built to support up to 30 students in a single account and provide progress tracking for each student.

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