The Baka are a semi-nomadic forest people who live in the republic of Cameroon in central Africa. In this video from Africa, the Baka men meet with a government official for help to protect their forest.

Every educator wants to create an environment for all of their students to learn, grow, and, hopefully, feel comfortable in that process.

Some educators may suspect that the school environment or school policies disproportionately favor or hinder one group of students over another, and therefore may feel that avoiding discussions about racism could ensure more of a harmonious or comfortable learning environment. But we have to ask, who is most comfortable in that equation?

Conversations addressing inequalities head-on can be difficult and, considering the age of the students, maybe even scary. Enter anti-racism and the anti-racist classroom, where educators can identify – and more importantly address – societal and racial inequities.

Discover what fourth grade teacher, Melissa Statz has to share about the methods she uses to navigate and facilitate conversations about race and racism inside her classroom and her journey to become a brave anti-racist educator 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.

This interactive activity from A Science Odyssey offers a historic tour of 20th century home technologies.

In this video adapted from Earth Island Institute, meet a high school student who educated her community about how a coal-burning power plant was contributing to asthma and other health problems there.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a classic children's book to illustrate reading aloud, one of the most important practices in developing children's literacy skills.

This graphic from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine suggests how some recent hominid fossil finds might fit into the overall picture of hominid evolution. As more fossils are found and further analysis advances our understanding of human evolution, this picture will almost certainly be revised.

In this video segment from WILD TV, meet a group of trackers and learn how they track animals.

In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.

This animation produced by WGBH and Digizyme, Inc. demonstrates the experimental technique used to introduce DNA plasmids inside bacterial cells, a process called bacterial transformation.

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast tries to design and build a bridge made out of drinking straws that will support the weight of 200 pennies.

This document shows you how to capture and edit still images from a video segment, using either a PC or a Macintosh computer.

This video segment from Regents Review 2.0 uses a trigonometry equation to determine the height of a flagpole located in front of the school.

Citizen complaints demonstrate that China's legal system has not yet fully gained the people's trust in this Wide Angle video.

This interactive activity, from the Building Big Web site, explores tunneling and the tools and methods used to do the job.

In this video from Wide Angle, visit a makeshift night school in rural India designed to allow child laborers who work during the day to obtain an education.

In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Viola, the heroine, is rescued from a shipwreck. She finds she is in a land ruled by an eligible bachelor (Orsino) and disguises herself as a man to protect herself.

In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Maria are introduced and their roles in this play established. Sir Toby wishes for the forever-intoxicated Sir Andrew to woo Olivia.

In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Olivia sends a ring to Cesario via Malvolio under the pretext that he (Viola) had dropped it. Viola realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her (or Cesario).

In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Feste are in a boisterous mood that raises the ire of Malvolio. Incensed at his highhandedness, Maria and the trio hatch a plan to fool him.

In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Feste sings a song for the Duke and Viola (Cesario, and the two discuss the way men and women approach love.