Better together - recommended partners

PBS NewsHour Extra always strives to help educators bring the news into the classroom through engaging media-rich resources. This fall, we want to introduce you to our favorite partner organizations. Check out their featured resources below and click on the links to learn more about their organization.

PBS LearningMedia | Get Your Tech On

Get Your Tech On is back by popular demand! Join PBS LearningMedia this fall to explore a stellar collection of resources designed to help you integrate digital media and technology into your classroom. Sign up for webinars, view new content, and enter their sweepstakes each day for a chance to win Samsung Galaxy tablets for your entire classroom.

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs | Student Reporting Labs curriculum

The Student Reporting Labs curriculum was developed with our partners at the Media Education Lab of Temple University as well as media professionals and high school teachers. The curriculum consists of three flexible units with a total of 10 lesson plans aimed at strengthening digital and news literacy competencies. These flexible lessons can be used in the context of courses in English, social studies, or video production classes and include critical thinking, analysis and production activities. Each lesson is designed for a 50-minute class with engaging high-interest activities to nurture a sense of purpose and accomplishment. Understanding that students tend to be strong visual learners, the Student Reporting Labs program has supplemented its online curriculum with an eight-part instructional video series that explores topics such as video production roles, location, setup, audio, lighting, white-balance, interviewing and B-roll. Each comes with a student worksheet and answer key for teachers.

Teach UNICEF | Global Citizenship Brief Philippines: Building Back Better

The Philippines survived Super Typhoon Haiyan but faces an uncertain future. Instead of just rebuilding, they're preparing to weather the next storm. Our new Global Citizenship Brief Philippines: Building Back Better provides teachers with Common Core-aligned lesson plans, activities and multimedia resources that invite students to think critically and compassionately about emergency response, the international community, climate change and sustainable development.

POV Documentary Films | Disability Issues Featured Theme

Looking to start a dialogue around disability issues in your classroom or try out a service-learning project? Check out our free, standards-aligned lesson plans in our Disability Issues Featured Theme . With streaming clips from POV films When I Walk and My Way to Olympia , these lesson plans are designed to engage students and enable conversations around issues in your community.

National Writing Project | Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy

Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy is designed to address Common Core ELA standards in argumentation with complex STEM content. This iOS tablet game, developed by Educator Innovator partner GlassLab, uses an interesting cast of characters and fun robot battles to help students develop the literacy and leadership skills essential for any 21st century career. Argubot Academy is now available for free download here . To learn more, visit glasslabgames.org or watch this Educator Innovator webinar, “ Field Testing Argubot Academy ."

New Global Citizens | The Pink Disease: How do Epidemics Spread? Lab

In this lesson , students will participate in a simulation of an epidemic ( The Pink Disease ) spreading without understanding of the guidelines of contagion. This lab activity guides students through how to model transmission of a disease and allows students to make connections to modern and historic epidemics such as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, malaria, plague and tuberculosis. The full unit guides students through research on a specific epidemic and creating a mathematical or scientific model for tracking the spread of disease.