The Lady Thunderhawks varsity basketball team is a source of pride for the Oneida Nation. Learn how Jessica House, a captain of the team, infuses cultural heritage and discipline in her leadership role.

This resource is part of The Ways, a collection of educational media resources for middle and high school classrooms from PBS Wisconsin Education.

Explore the full collection: https://pbswisconsineducation.org/theways/about/

The Petersons are part of a long tradition of commercial fishing among Lake Superior tribes. Learn how members of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have a treaty-retained right to hunt, fish, and gather in ceded territories and Lake Superior.

This resource is part of The Ways, a collection of educational media resources for middle and high school classrooms from PBS Wisconsin Education.

Explore the full collection: https://pbswisconsineducation.org/theways/about/

Language apprentice Arlene Thunder Blackdeer believes it is essential to keep Ho-Chunk Nation traditional knowledge alive by passing culture and language from elders to younger generations. Learn how she keeps the language alive.

This resource is part of The Ways, a collection of educational media resources for middle and high school classrooms from PBS Wisconsin Education.

Explore the full collection: https://pbswisconsineducation.org/theways/about/

Explore the power of memory, irony, and ordinary objects. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Billy Collins reads his humorous poem, The Lanyard, about a childhood gift he made for his mother.

In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues.

Lavanyaa Surendar grew up in a family of artists who performed Indian classical music and dance. She learned how to tell ancient stories and show emotions through those traditions. She now continues the legacy by sharing her knowledge with others.

This resource is part of Re/sound: Songs of Wisconsin; a collection of educational media resources from PBS Wisconsin Education and Wisconsin School Music Association. These resources can be used to explore connections between music, identities, cultures, and emotions. The collection includes video interviews with Wisconsin musicians, performances, audio files, and educator guides designed to help activate the media with learners in grades 4-8.

Through scientific research, this video from The Human Spark illustrates how a child’s views of what is right and wrong can be shaped by others.

This Wide Angle video provides an overview of the expansion of the legal system in China as market forces lead to new circumstances requiring legal solutions.

Take a deep dive into maritime mysteries with this point-and-click adventure game! Learners will use critical thinking and historical inquiry skills to recover the real treasure—the stories of shipwrecks inspired by real Great Lakes history.

Dive into the game, and explore the educator guide at pbswisconsineducation.org/emerald.

Getting his start at an early age, this music industry innovator from Waukesha made some serious sound waves with his inventions.

Resources available for exploring this story include:
- A short animated video with captions and transcripts in English and Spanish
- A short biography book accessible as a slide deck, with per-page audio for listening along, and maps of key locations in the story
- Questions that can be used for conversation, reflection, and connection with the story
- A historical image gallery full of primary and secondary sources to explore
- A guide for activating the media with learners that includes story stats, extension activity ideas, and standards supported

This story is part of Wisconsin Biographies, a collection of educational media resources for grades 3-6. Explore the full collection at pbswisconsineducation.org/biographies.

Lesson Plan One: Color in 3-D: A Nature Design Project by Peggy Reeves is a lesson for 6-12 graders, Middle/High School designed to take between 3-4 45 minute class periods.
Students should have prior experience/knowledge of color theory, 2-dimensional shape, 3-dimensional form, Cubism, and Fauvism. 
http://www.pbs.org/hanshofmann/
Once in the main web-site, follow the Special Features link to three choices: 1) Push and Pull Puzzle, which is an interactive color painting  2) Texturexploration, featuring a magnifying glass to examine the textural  surfaces of a Hans Hofmann painting 3) Hofmannopoly, a reproducable board game which explores Hans Hofmann's artistic career and his personal philosophy of art.

Lesson Plan Two: Introduction to Modern Art:Practice by Karen Rosner: Grades 10-12 may be used as three separate lessons or as a unit on Modern Art (Abstract Expressionism), focusing on the philosophy of push-and-pull color, line, shape, form, abstraction, depth of field, design and dthe visual art of Hans Hofmann.

Three billion years ago single-celled underwater bacteria used sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into tiny oxygen bubbles. Soon plants were turning an atmosphere full of volcanic carbon dioxide into oxygen. As we learn in this video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth," photosynthesis created a good home for animals and humans, though not for some primitive organisms. They had to retreat to where oxygen couldn't reach them. Join researchers as they search for these organisms, now considered tiny time capsules from a time before there was oxygen on Earth.

The daily struggle of an Indian woman left widowed by her husband's suicide is the focus of this Wide Angle video.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists are startled to discover evidence for the three key ingredients for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

After their carts collide in a hardware store, two teachers discover that they both bought the same items in different quantities. With limited information, this segment demonstrates how to use an equation to determine the cost of each item.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a line of laughing Lions to help build vocabulary and illustrate the meaning of words that typically challenge young children.

The urban and rural activities of our complex social system aimed toward comfort and progress also have harmful side effects. This segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes how the water resources of one city are suffering from these.

In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 16-year-old violist Matthew Lipman plays La Campanella from the Second Violin Concerto by Niccolo Paganini.

This video segment from Between the Lions features Aesop's fable, The Lion and the Mouse, and illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud.