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January 2008



"Growing Up Online": Resources For Parents & Teachers

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 9:27 P GMT-08
"GROWING UP ONLINE" Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 9 P.M. (check local listings) Watch a Preview: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/ In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE peers inside the world of this cyber-savvy generation thro
Category: Tech Tools Professional Development Culture of Education Educational Technology
Lynne Wolters

"Cheney's Law"

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 6:57 P GMT-08
Watch it Online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney Airdate Tuesday, January 15, 2007 at 9 P.M. (check local listings)For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the
Category: Teacher Resources Social Studies High School Higher Education
Lynne Wolters

Using Frontline In The Classroom Guidelines

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 1:15 P GMT-08
FRONTLINE films can be taped and used as a classroom resource for up to one year after the original broadcast. Teacher Center materials featured on the FRONTLINE Web site ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/ ) can be photocopied for educa
Category: Teachers & Tech Information Literacy
Lynne Wolters

Online Shorts Festival Highlight: THE METAMORPHOSIS

Monday, 14 January 2008 11:21 P GMT-08
THE METAMORPHOSIS (10:01) by Ari MarkIt's hard to say what came first -- the pain, the pounding or the tiny growth on the back of Stan Leiber's head. But when Stan wakes up one morning to find that the growth has matured into a yarmulke, he d
Category: Social Studies Health/PE Middle School High School Higher Education Videos
Lynne Wolters

MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita

Monday, 14 January 2008 11:15 P GMT-08
MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita (90 minutes)by Maria FinitzoPremieres January 15 at 10 PM (check local listings)Some consider stem cell research the Holy Grail of regenerative medicine. Others view the idea as morally wrong. But what wou
Category: Research Science Health/PE Middle School High School Higher Education
Lynne Wolters

MN High School Disciplines Students for Facebook Photos

Monday, 14 January 2008 1:15 P GMT-08
About 100 suburban-Minneapolis students have been reprimanded by school administrators after photos of them posted on Facebook drinking or partying came to light. Some of the students were suspended from sports or other extracurricular activities. St
Category: Culture of Education High School Educational Technology
Lynne Wolters

PE Class Teaches Life Lessons In Nature, Community

Monday, 14 January 2008 1:11 P GMT-08
P.E. class teaches life lessons in nature, community Washington's Tahoma High School four years ago created Outdoor Academy, a popular yearlong course that has students clearing park trails for exercise while also requiring them to write and do s
Category: Health/PE Middle School High School
Lynne Wolters

FATWORLD: Online Game Explores America's Obesity Crisis

Sunday, 13 January 2008 11:09 P GMT-08
A downloadable video game about eating, obesity and the politics of nutrition, FATWORLD reconstructs a playful, small-scale society where players own and operate a restaurant, purchase groceries, create and share recipes, and make nutritional decisio
Category: Health/PE Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

PBS Parents: Healthier Children

Thursday, 3 January 2008 6:52 P GMT-08
PBS Parents: Resolve to Eat Smart and Stay Healthy Online Grade Range: PreK, K-3, 3-5New Year's resolutions aren't just for grown-ups. The start of 2008 brings an excellent opportunity to talk with kids about how to make positive change
Category: Health/PE Early Childhood Elementary
Lynne Wolters

PBS Programming: Social Studies

Thursday, 3 January 2008 6:50 P GMT-08
Independent Lens: Today's Man On-Air & Online | Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12Filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb searches to understand her brother's strange and extraordinary life after he is diagnosed at age 21 with Aspe
Category: Social Studies Middle School High School
Lynne Wolters

PBS Programming: Reading and Language Arts

Thursday, 3 January 2008 6:46 P GMT-08
Masterpiece Theater: Literary History Timeline Interactive/Online Activity Grade Range: 9-12 Explore a broad overview of the concurrent lifetimes of major authors during the two-hundred-year period between 1800 and 2000. Examine information abo
Category: Language Arts Reading Early Childhood High School
Lynne Wolters

PBS Programming: Math

Thursday, 3 January 2008 6:44 P GMT-08
NewsHour Extra: A Closer Look: Unemployment Lesson Plan Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 Analyze the effects of unemployment nationwide and locally, and understand what it means to be unemployed and who makes up this population. Use current data and loca
Category: Math Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

PBS Programming: Health and Fitness

Thursday, 3 January 2008 6:42 P GMT-08
Frontline: The Medicated Child On-Air & Online | Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 9 - 10:00 pm Grade Range: 9-12With more than four million children now on behavior modifying medications--some starting as young as two years old--"Frontline
Category: Health/PE Middle School
Lynne Wolters

MD Using Video To Teach Patients

Thursday, 3 January 2008 1:54 P GMT-08
Caught On Video Bob Sprankle describes it: "Rather than (the doctor) trying to explain procedures with patients using just words, he now carries his phone around and shows them actual video clips of the procedures to help them underst
Category: Culture of Education Information Literacy Educational Technology Visual Literacy Videos
Lynne Wolters

Collaborative Writing: Andy Carvin PBS Blog

Thursday, 3 January 2008 1:12 A GMT-08
Learning.now with Andy Carvin: Collaborative Writing, 140 Characters at a Time Online Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12A teacher in suburban Washington DC has launched a collaborative writing initiative using the messaging tool Twitter. Prepare to be
Category: Language Arts Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

PBS Programming: Science and Technology

Thursday, 3 January 2008 1:10 A GMT-08
Nature: The Desert Lions On-Air & Online | Sunday, January 6, 2008 Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12The world's most extraordinary population of lions lives in the Namib Desert on Africa's wild and forbidding Skeleton Coast. Philip Stander,
Category: Science Middle School High School
Lynne Wolters

See science in action at the South Pole

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 10:09 P GMT-08
Wed, Jan 02, 2008 E-School News In a series of live webcasts held in celebration of the International Polar Year (2007-2008), educators at the Exploratorium in San Francisco
Category: Science Web 2.0 Educational Technology
Lynne Wolters

Emotional Literacy Skills: Learn By Doing 4th & 5th Grades

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 9:56 P GMT-08
A 4-month-old baby is helping Seattle fourth- and fifth-graders learn empathy and other so-called emotional literacy skills. The Roots of Empathy program, which originated in Canada and is now employed in several countries and launching in the U.S. t
Category: Research Culture of Education Elementary
Lynne Wolters

More Grant Opportunities

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 9:42 P GMT-08
The "Created Equal" BookshelfDeadline: January 25, 2008 - National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library AssociationThe Created Equal Bookshelf program will give 3,000 libraries a set of classic books related to the “C
Category: Grants Professional Development
Lynne Wolters

Grant Opportunities

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 9:34 P GMT-08
Teachers Encouraged to Apply for a Horace Mann Educator Scholarship Scholarships of up to $5,000 for continuing collegiate education will be awarded around the country to K-12 educators with at least two years of experience....Deadline: February 29,
Category: Grants Professional Development
Lynne Wolters

Computer Applications Lesson Plans

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 3:16 A GMT-08
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/LessonPlans.mspx ...a series of lesson plans utilizing commonly available applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, presentation software, databases, and more from Kathy Schrock's SOS For Busy Teacher
Lynne Wolters