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Game On! Gamifying Lesson Planning

AUGUST 28, 2020

Educators, are you ready for a challenge? An escape from everyday professional learning? Test your “breakout” skills in our PBS Breakout EDU challenge that will not only introduce you to all the ways you can use PBS LearningMedia in your classroom (virtual or in-person), but will also inspire you to gamify learning for your students! Educators, challenge yourself and go through these fun games yourself. OR get a group of fellow educators together and play along! *To add an element of fun, try timing yourself. Can...

PBS in the Classroom

Game On! Gamifying Lesson Planning

AUGUST 28, 2020

Educators, are you ready for a challenge? An escape from everyday professional learning? Test your “breakout” skills in our PBS Breakout EDU challenge that will not only introduce you to all the ways you can use PBS LearningMedia in your classroom (virtual or in-person), but will also inspire you to gamify learning for your students! Educators, challenge yourself and go through these fun games yourself. OR get a group of fellow educators together and play along! *To add an element of fun, try timing yourself. Can...

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Attacking Snack Time: Fostering Healthy Appetites and Attitudes

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

As teachers of young children, it is our responsibility to help cultivate healthy habits around food in our classrooms.

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The Power of Teachers: Ordinary People Can Change the World

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The teacher who changed my life didn’t do it by encouraging her students to stand on their desks, like John Keating in Dead Poets Society. Or by toting a baseball bat through the halls, like Principal Clark in Lean on Me. She did it in a much simpler way: by telling me I was good at something.

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Back to School with PBS KIDS: Design an Inclusive Classroom

AUGUST 12, 2019

No classroom can be successful without a sense of community and community doesn’t work if everyone isn’t included. This doesn’t happen by accident. It’s an environment that needs to be intentionally scaffolded. Inclusion is something that has to be designed. Here are some things to think about.

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Using Pinkalicious & Peterrific to Encourage Kindness

JULY 22, 2019

When our students come to school, most times they are carrying more than just a backpack full of school supplies, books and homework. They are coming with a hungry stomach, a sleepless night, an angry parent, unfair punishment, anxiety about being teased or bullied, a bad hair day, incomplete homework, or other external and internal stressors. With that in mind, making time to create a card can really emphasize the importance of showing kindness to one another.

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Strategies to Create a Community in Your Classroom

MAY 10, 2019

The Arthur theme song says it all: “You can learn to work and play and get along with each other.” Building a classroom community is a process with huge benefits for students and teachers.

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Celebrating Earth Day with a Gardening Focus

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s Earth Day today, and we will do our part! Around the world, on April 22, people often celebrate Earth Day by planting trees, picking up litter, or “opting outside” by visiting a nearby park or another natural place. Some even make long-term Earth Day resolutions that commit to taking actions over time to help the environment.

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Creating a “Community” Garden with Your Students..and Nature Cat

MARCH 21, 2019

Garden planning is an exercise in matching creativity with functionality. With young children, you can draw from math, language arts and science curriculums, while providing experiences that impart a host of skills useful throughout life—skills that foster positive habits related to emotional health, nutrition, exercise and community involvement, among others.

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Cultivating Good Neighbor Skills

MARCH 18, 2019

Won’t you be our neighbor?! Teachers, join us for this three part series where we explore Social Emotional Learning “Core Competencies” (CASEL@2017). With the help from Arthur, Peg+Cat and Daniel Tiger we will dive into how to weave SEL into your everyday lessons. Register for the three part "Live Learning" experience: Cultivating Good Neighbor Skills in the Classroom.

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