This collection from the award-winning program NOVA offers digital materials in a wide range of topics in science and math, from algebra and statistics to engineering, genetics, human impacts, particles & waves, properties of matter, and weather. Each topic has multiple lessons, most of which include a video and support materials. The site also has links to several other NOVA instructional products.
NOVA Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens and lifelong learners in games and interactives that foster authentic scientific exploration. From predicting solar storms and constructing renewable energy systems to tracking cloud movement and designing RNA molecules, NOVA Labs lets participants conduct investigations by visualizing, analyzing, and sharing the same data that scientists use.
PBS Teachers’ Lounge is a digital space for teachers to come together and sharpen their professional skills. They can learn from each other through a blog, get tips from PBS on featured content in LearningMedia and find interesting stories about education from NPR and public stations around the country. Features update frequently.
PBS Kids gathers apps, albums, E-Books, and other fun stuff, including wallpaper, on this site full of downloadables for favorite Kids shows. Media categories are searchable by shows, skills and age. Skills are categorized by Science, Creativity, Reading, Math, Literacy, Music, and Social-Emotional.
Games starring Curious George, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, Sid the Science Kid and a few other favorites have been translated into Spanish.
This trove of games builds on skills taught in PBS Kids shows and feature favorite characters. The games are searchable in several ways: newest, most popular, and more than two dozen topics and skills (dinosaurs, healthy habits and creativity as well as math, reading and science).
PBS Kids is always working on something new—and usually several “somethings” at once! Whether it is new apps using math or an augmented reality game using camera phones, click here to find the latest and most innovative from PBS Kids.
Ready for Life provides tools to help teachers, parents and caregivers raise children who are socially and emotionally healthy and ready to succeed in school and life. The site has videos, guidebooks and other resources in four topics: Attachment & Socialization, Early Literacy, Nutrition & Fitness and Temperament. The guidebooks contain detailed information and learning activities — in English and Spanish.
Art&Seek is your source for arts news, stories and events in North Texas. Check out Artist Spotlight, a collection of profiles of North Texas artists, with media clips, Q&As and much more.
The interactive Secrets of the Meyerson was created to mark the 25th anniversary of the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in 2014. Its virtual tour takes you behind the scenes to explore areas of the building that the public rarely sees and shares secrets such as which features create the hall’s unique sound.
Art&Seek Jr is a weekly column with tips for family-friendly events and adventures in the area. It’s great for planning weekend activities or special events.
Martha Speaks is a PBS KIDS show for ages 4 – 7. The show, games and other digital materials teach new words as Martha, a dog who learns to speak after eating alphabet soup, shares her new vocabulary with human friends. They use lots of words and explain what the harder ones mean, which helps children learn them. Click the “Parents and Teachers” link to find programs such as Reading Buddies, which pairs older and younger children to increase their vocabulary and build social skills.
“WordGirl” is a superhero who fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage, all in a day’s work. Each episode introduces new words and reinforces their meaning in a variety of contexts throughout the episode. The videos, games and apps reinforce what children learn from the show. Click on “Parents” to read about the show’s learning goals and additional resources to teach literacy skills for elementary-age children.
Super Why makes reading an empowering adventure by using interactive literacy games that need YOU to play. In Super Why reading is power! We begin each 24-minute reading adventure in Storybrook Village, a 3-D world hidden behind the bookshelves in a children’s library, where characters encounter problems. As in real life, the problems require preschool social skills to resolve. The adventure begins as the Super Readers find out how famous fictional characters handled similar situations.
SciGirls is for kids ages 8-12, showcasing bright, curious, real tween girls putting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to work in their everyday lives. Each episode highlights the process of science and engineering. Girls can see how choosing, questioning, planning, predicting, observing, interpreting and communicating actually take place. They learn how rewarding and fun it is to do science and engineering with your peers, and the show’s female mentors offer girls a glimpse of exciting STEM career possibilities.
The Kratt brothers’ travels to animal habitats around the world teach 6- to 8-year-old viewers natural history and age-appropriate science by building on their natural interest in animals. The videos and other resources also help children develop and strengthen basic skills of observation and investigation that are important to the study of science.
Through engaging stories and physical comedy, Peg + Cat inspires preschool children to see math as exciting, accessible, and fun. The show and digital resources teach measurement, shapes and patterns, and a wide range of fundamental pre-math skills. It also teaches an inquiry-based approach to problem solving that children can use in their everyday lives.
Cyberchase is the Emmy award-winning animated math mystery show featuring a team of curious kids who use their math and problem solving skills to outwit and outsmart the villain Hacker in their quest to save Cyberspace. In addition to segments from the animated portion of the show, this collection of resources includes live-action For Real segments, in which hosts Bianca and Harry explore the show’s math topics in everyday life.
The Sid the Science Kid on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for teachers to introduce or reinforce early science concepts in the classroom. Help your students think, talk, and work like scientists, with activities that explore “Science Tools” with the Science Adventures curriculum. Students will learn about some of the tools that scientists use including magnifiers, charts, measuring tools, and science journals.
This video series introduces key concepts in mathematics for grades 3 – 8. Each video focuses on building conceptual understanding of a topic, so that students understand the “how” and “why” behind mathematical problem solving.
