Unlock the potential for your learners to think critically about their roles as media consumers and creators by becoming a PBS Media Literacy-certified educator!

Offered in partnership with KQED and Digital Promise, the PBS Media Literacy Certification allows educators to earn 8 microcredentials connected to teaching media literacy in the classroom. PBS Wisconsin Education offers an annual guided cohort to offer additional support and peer networking for Wisconsin educators pursuing certification.

Visit the Media Literacy pages on PBS Wisconsin Education's website to find more details about applying to be part of the next cohort, explore examples from previous cohort educators' portfolios, and see how credentials and Wisconsin Standards for Information and Technology Literacy are aligned.

In this activity, students will focus on dividing fractions, starting with single-digit denominators and working up.

Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black students who desegregated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Beals describes her tumultuous experience.

Sylvia Mendez recalls the conditions that led Mexican Americans to sue for desegregation in the 1940s in this segment from Mendez vs. Westminster: Para Todos los Ninos/For All the Children, from KOCE-TV.

Learn about an important physics experiment that uses an invention that manipulates light in this interactive activity adapted from NASA.

Migrant construction workers from rural China describe their living conditions in Beijing in this Wide Angle video segment.

Chinese migrant workers give insight into their status, lack of power and vulnerability in the new economic order in this video from Wide Angle.

This courageous justice seeker’s path would take her from Milwaukee to Germany, where belief in equal rights would lead her to join the resistance working against Hitler and the Nazis.

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.

When this problem-solver learned that a landfill in her Sauk County community was closing much earlier than it should, she got to work. Her activism and effort ended up making big changes in the world of plastics recycling.

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/about.

In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Miriam McClendon recalls her arrest and jailing for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963.

In this video segment adapted from Hope in a Changing Climate, learn how an environmentally devastated ecosystem has been restored, benefiting both the local economy and global efforts to fight climate change.

In this video segment adapted from Hope in a Changing Climate, learn how an environmentally devastated ecosystem has been restored, benefiting both the local economy and global efforts to fight climate change.

This Wide Angle video explores the effects of economic prosperity and secularization on family structure and beliefs in Ireland.

This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.

Scientists conduct an experiment to learn about moths' attraction to light in this video segment from WILD TV.

This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity and shows the impact this activity has on Earth's surface.

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, shows the racial violence sparked when the African American chemist Percy Julian and his family moved into an exclusive Chicago suburb in 1950.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine how to multiply fractions by whole numbers in the context of a recipe.

In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 17-year-old Eliodoro Vallecillo plays the Allegro from Mozart's Concerto No. 3 in E flat, K. 447 on the French horn.

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn about how the events of 9/11 have posed continuing challenges for American Muslims as they work to build their community in the U.S.