Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Steven Pifer discusses the United States' stance toward the Russian/Chechen conflict in this video from Wide Angle.
This Cyberchase video features Bianca who uses Venn Diagrams to make a pizza that satisfies the topping preferences of her friends.
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and rely on advanced technology and assess how their goals and interests may make them well suited for a career in this cutting-edge sector.
Students learn about and practice graphing, plotting points, drawing line segments, and finding the coordinates of points of intersection.
This KET animation illustrates positive and negative measurement on a straight line and on a flat plane using a point of origin.
A hot topic of debate in Turkey is the possibility of an increasingly Islamic state in this historically secular country. Learn more in this video from Wide Angle.
Facilitating conversations among students is something teachers do all the time. But what happens when discussions become personal? When we begin to talk about politics, it’s easy for emotions to enter and often derail a conversation.
Discover what two Wisconsin educators have to share about the methods they use to navigate politically-charged conversations inside his classroom in a short video and companion essay in the post on the aka Teacher blog.
Hosted by PBS Wisconsin Education, and created with and for Wisconsin educators, the aka Teacher blog offers a space for exploring the many hats educators today wear, and the topics that aren’t covered in teacher preparation programs.
Blog posts include videos featuring educators around the state, and resources you can share with learners and use to continue your own learning.
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about population sampling by watching how a Native American tribe measures the number of fish in their lake.
This video segment from Jakers! features a storyteller who tells a Pourquoi story about Anansi, the spider, a popular character in African folklore.
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and some activities they can do to improve their health.
This Wide Angle video features a peasant family in China that is caught in a land rights dispute with no apparent solution in sight.
Contemporary powwows bring together Native Americans from many different Nations, providing opportunities to gather and celebrate. Learn how Dylan Jennings, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, dances the Men’s Traditional dance, which for him, mimics hunting movements.
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/
In “Prayers in a Song” Minneapolis-based hip-hop artist Tall Paul (Paul Wenell Jr.) raps about his struggle to learn his indigenous language, Anishinaabemowin. Learn about his journey toward a deeper understanding of his Native identity.
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 practices of illegal private money lenders in the rural region of Vidarbha, India are highlighted in this video from Wide Angle.
Students learn about probability and the law of large numbers. Through increasingly large trial sizes, students witness the way in which results get closer and closer to 50%.
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin.
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore some of the technologies designed to detect and treat inherited diseases and the ethical debate surrounding them.
Learn about the dynamic relationships between a jet engine's heat loss, surface area, and volume in this video adapted from Annenberg Learner's Learning Math: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra.
Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research problems, and publish their own genome research at GenBank, the international genomic sequence database.
The town of Pulaski, Wisconsin claims to have more musicians per capita than anywhere in the U.S. Learn about Pulaski, a town that thrives on polka music in this video segment from EGG: the arts show.