PBS Educator Resource Catalog
Program
Website
ADD & Loving It?!
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/add_and_lo
ving_it.html
A Place of Our Own
http://aplaceofourown.org/
American Experience
Grades
Teacher's
Guide or
Lesson Plan
PreK-Adult
Learning Links Literary Author Feature or Clip
Timelines
Video Library
for students
Interactives
Community
Resources
•
•
•
•
•
•
Infant, PreK
•
•
•
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/teachers/i
ndex.html
6-12
•
•
•
American Masters
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters
/category/for-educators/
6-12
•
•
Angelina Ballerina
http://pbskids.org/angelinaballerina/
Annenberg Media
http://www.learner.org/
Antiques Roadshow
•
3-6
Student
Projects
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
PreK-Adult
•
•
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/teache
rs.html
6-12
•
•
•
Arizona Stories
http://www.azpbs.org/arizonastories/maini
ndex.php
4-12
•
•
Arizona Stories: World
War II
http://www.azpbs.org/arizonastories/ww2in
dex.php
4-12
•
•
•
Art21
http://www.pbs.org/art21/
6-12
•
•
Arthur
http://pbskids.org/arthur/
K-4
•
•
•
Baseball - A Film by
Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/baseball
6-12
•
•
•
•
Baseball - The Tenth
Inning
http://www.pbs.org/baseball-the-tenthinning/
6-12
•
•
•
•
Between the Lions
http://pbskids.org/lions/
PreK-4
•
•
•
•
Caillou
http://pbskids.org/caillou/
PreK-1
•
•
•
•
•
Cat in the Hat Knows a
Lot About That!
http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/
•
•
•
•
Circus
http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/classroom/ci
rcus-physics/
•
•
PreK-2
9-12
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
PBS Educator Resource Catalog
Program
Website
Clifford the Big Red
Dog
http://pbskids.org/clifford/index-brdflash.html
Curious George
http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/
Cyberchase
http://www.pbs.org/parents/cyberchase
Digital Nation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/d
igitalnation/
Dinosaur Train
http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/
Electric Company, the
http://pbskids.org/electriccompany/
Emotional Life, The
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/this_emotio
nal_life.html
Engineer Girl
http://www.engineergirl.org/
Engineer Your Life
http://www.engineeryourlife.org/
Faces of America
Grades
Teacher's
Guide or
Lesson Plan
PreK-1
•
•
PreK-1
•
2-5
•
6-12
Learning Links Literary Author Feature or Clip
Timelines
Video Library
for students
Student
Projects
Interactives
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
PreK-1
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•
•
•
•
2-5
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•
•
•
•
•
•
6-12
•
2-5
•
•
•
•
•
6-12
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•
•
•
•
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/c
ategory/for-educators/
6-12
•
•
•
•
•
Fetch! With Ruff
Ruffman
http://www.pbs.org/parents/fetch/index.ht
ml
2-5
•
•
•
•
•
400 Years of the
Telescope
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/400years_t
elescope.html
6-12
•
•
•
Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/t
each/
6-12
•
•
•
Great Performances
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/category/fo
r-educators/eduby-title/
6-12
•
History Detectives
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/e
ducators/index.html
6-12
•
Horizon
http://www.azpbs.org/horizon/educators/in
dex.htm
6-12
Horizonte
http://www.azpbs.org/horizonte/educators/i
ndex.htm
6-12
•
•
•
•
•
•
Community
Resources
•
PBS Educator Resource Catalog
Program
Website
Grades
Teacher's
Guide or
Lesson Plan
•
6-12
Human Spark, The
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/
Independent Lens
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classr
oom/
6-12
•
Jane Austen
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/newsletter/
6/
6-12
•
KIPTown
http://www.asset.asu.edu/kip/parents.html
Los Ninos en su Casa
http://losninosensucasa.org/
Martha Speaks
http://pbskids.org/martha/
Masterpiece Mystery!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/mys
tery/index.html
Masters of Disaster
http://www.azpbs.org/mastersofdisaster/
Math Active
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/mathactive/
Maya & Miguel
http://pbskids.org/mayaandmiguel/flash.ht
ml
MISSION US
http://www.mission-us.org/
Nature
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/f
or-educators/
NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/
NOW
http://www.pbs.org/now/
PBS Kids
http://pbskids.org/
PBS Kids Go
http://pbskids.org/go/
PBS Padres
http://www.pbs.org/padres/
Learning Links Literary Author Feature or Clip
Timelines
Video Library
for students
Student
Projects
Interactives
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
PreK-K
Infant, PreK
•
•
•
PreK-4
•
•
•
6-12
•
•
PreK-4
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
PreK-12
2-5
•
•
•
•
•
5-9
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•
•
•
•
4-12
•
•
•
•
4-12
•
•
•
•
6-12
•
PreK-2
•
•
•
•
3-5
Adult
Community
Resources
•
•
•
•
•
PBS Educator Resource Catalog
Program
Website
PBS Parents
http://www.pbs.org/parents/
PBS Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Peep and the Big Wide
World/Pocoyo
http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/
Play With Me Sesame
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/programs
/play_with_me_sesame
POV
http://www.pbs.org/pov/educators/
Raising Hope: The
Equal Voice Story
http://www.asset.asu.edu/new/equal_voice
.html
RU There
http://xoosh.net/
Sci Girls
http://pbskids.org/scigirls/
Sesame Street
http://www.sesamestreet.org/
Sesame Workshop
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/
Sid the Science Kid
http://pbskids.org/sid/
StoryCorps
http://www.npr.org/series/4516989/storycor
ps
Super Why!
http://pbskids.org/superwhy/
Teacher's Domain
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Grades
Teacher's
Guide or
Lesson Plan
Adult
Learning Links Literary Author Feature or Clip
Timelines
Video Library
for students
Student
Projects
Interactives
•
•
•
•
Adult
•
•
•
•
•
PreK-K
•
•
•
•
•
PreK-K
•
9-12
•
9-12
•
3-5
•
•
3-5
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
PreK
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Adult
PreK
•
9-12
PreK-K
•
•
3-12
•
•
War, The
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/edu_overview.
htm
6-12
•
•
•
We Shall Remain
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallre
main/
6-12
•
•
•
Wide Angle
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/catego
ry/for-educators/
9-12
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Community
Resources
PBS Educator Resource Catalog
Program
Website
Grades
Teacher's
Guide or
Lesson Plan
Learning Links Literary Author Feature or Clip
Timelines
Video Library
for students
Wired Science
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/educ
ation/
5-12
•
WordGirl
http://www.pbs.org/parents/wordgirl/paren
tsandteachers.html
PreK-4
•
•
•
WordWorld
http://pbskids.org/wordworld/index_flash.ht
ml
PreK-K
•
•
•
Student
Projects
Interactives
•
•
•
Community
Resources
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Title
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
Series
/Standalone
Description
Audience
Content Area
Format
Annenberg/ CPB Teacher's Lab
"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies,
content, and activities that can enhance and improve students'
skills in a variety of curricular areas including: Shape and
Space in Geometry, The Science of Light, Patterns in
Mathematics, A Private Universe Project, Arts, History and
Language.
Educators & Administrators
Geometry, STEM
Face to Face
FREE
Annenberg Interactives
Provides educators/students with strategies, content, and
activities that can enhance/improve students' skills in a variety
of curricular areas.
Educators & Administrators
STEM, Language, Literature,
Math, Science, Social Studies
Face to Face
FREE
PBSkids.org
Safe interactive website for children to explore their favorite
PBS shows and play games, watch videos, print out coloring
pages/activities and more. Links to PBS Parents, and
interactive website for parents and educators to find additional
resources.
Educators & Administrators
STEM, Language, Literature,
Math, Science, Social Studies,
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Both
FREE
PBSparents.org/PBSpadres.org
Give parents/educators additional resources and strategies on
how to reinforce topics covered through PBS activities and
television shows.
Parents/Educators
Parenting, Disabilities,
Ages/Stages
Face to Face
•
Both
FREE
SUPER WHY! Reading Camps
The interactive storybook camps stimulate literacy/reading
readiness for 4-5-6 year old children. This program and its
characters engage prospective kindergarteners in learning
activities designed to reinforce and enrich their reading skills.
Campers work on a different skill set linked to the Super
Readers and practice letter identification, letter sounds, ALLfamily word recognition, and reading.
Professional Development and
resources for 25 students
Literacy
Face to Face
$3,000 /camp
PBS TeacherLine
PBS TeacherLine gives pre-K-12 educators access to best in
class online professional development. Over 130 online
courses in all subject areas available for a school, district, or
individual educator.
PreK-12 Professional
Development Online Courses
STEM, Language, Literature,
Math, Science, Social Studies,
Literacy
Online
$199 up plus
$50 coupon
from ASSET
PBS TeacherLIne Peer
Connection
Powerful online support for instructional coaches, mentors,
and teacher leaders. Ability to share library of resources on
specific areas of teaching to mentors.
Online
$1000/10
mentors and
unlimited
mentees
STEM, Language, Literature,
Online Support for Instructional
Math, Science, Social Studies,
Coaches and Mentors
Literacy
Cost
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Title
Description
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
Series
/Standalone
Cost
Standalone
$1,600/25
participants
Audience
Content Area
Format
Professional Development
Workshop
Social Studies, Technology
Face to Face
or Webinar
Professional Development
Workshop
STEM
Face to Face
This workshop focuses on typical early language and emergent
Early Childhood Parenting Class - literacy skills through a print-rich, literacy-rich environment.
Many early literacy-learning activities that easily build on
I Spy Through Elmo’s
Eyes..Literacy Around the House preschoolers’ prior knowledge, expand their vocabulary and
strengthen oral language development.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
This workshop focuses on using storytelling to develop a
Early Childhood Parenting Class child's language and literacy skills and gives parents ideas
A Picture Book is Worth a
about how to most effectively enrich and expand the emergent
Thousand Words!
reading skills of their youngsters.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy, Technology
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
PBS Kids Island provides free reading games and activities for
children, parents, caregivers. Learn how your child can build
an online island carnival by playing reading games with PBS
KIDS characters while increasing their reading skills.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy, Technology
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
This SUPER WHY! and Between the Lions based workshop
Early Childhood Parenting Class - focuses on how young children start developing language. A
Unlock the PBS Literacy
collection of early reading games and activities that encourage
Treasure Chest - Activities to
alphabetic and phonological awareness skills are critical to a
Promote Language Development youngster’s early literacy and language development will be
provided.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Workshop focused on the integration of social studies
PBS Social Studies Resources for resources including PBS web resources and the use of on air
Grades 5-12
programming in the classroom such as Mission US, History
Detectives, and Antiques Roadshow.
STEM Resources on PBS
Workshop focused on the integration of PBS STEM web
resources and on air programming into the classroom.
What do you do after watching a TV program or video? What
Early Childhood Parenting Class - follow-up activities could extend the lessons from the
programs? Explore how all PBS Kids on-air and online
Discovering Literacy Using
resources support this important work.
Media
Early Childhood Parenting Class Traveling the World-Wide Web –
Seatbelt Buckled but No Passport
Required!
$1,600/25
participants
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Title
Description
Audience
Content Area
Format
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
Series
/Standalone
Cost
Early Childhood Parenting Class What are they thinking?
Understanding Your Child’s
Brain Development
Learn how to strengthen early language and literacy in these
early, critical years using the many resources found at PBS
Parents for a greater understanding of emotional and
intellectual growth of your child.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy, Brain Development
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Engage Preschoolers with PBS
Online Resources Workshops
Find out why these Arizona PBS Online Resources are the
latest and greatest for your preschoolers. The Engage
Preschoolers with PBS Online Resources workshop is
designed to further develop child’s natural interest in
technology and provide a safe online learning experience tied
to literacy and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and
math) activities that are aligned to Arizona Early Learning
Standards and the National Reading Panel. Learn all about
encouraging questions and problem-solving with these free
resources. Complementary online and offline activities
encourage families to read and explore their communities
together for literacy activities. Internet safety and appropriate
screen-time is discussed.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy, STEM, Technology
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600//25parti
cipants
PBS Kids Island
Participants will be explore www.readytolearnreading.org,
which provides free reading games and activities for children,
parents, caregivers and teachers to use at home or in the
classroom.
This site is specifically designed to build reading skills and
aggregates the literacy-based activities, games and resources
from PBS KIDS Raising Readers series that include SESAME
STREET, SUPER WHY, WORDWORLD and BETWEEN
THE LIONS for parents, teachers and kids in one place so it’s
easily accessible in a cohesive environment. The site is built
on a literacy framework, based on the National Reading Panel
guidelines and funded by a Ready To Learn Grant from the
U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy, Technology
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Title
Description
Sesame Workshop’s Healthy Habits
for Life
Sesame Workshop's Talk, Read,
Write
Series
/Standalone
Audience
Content Area
Format
Professional Development for
Educators & Administrators
Social Media, Technology
Face to Face
or Webinar
The Reading Rockets website is a rich resource for launching
young readers. Reading Rockets is a national multimedia
project offering information and resources on how young
children learn to read, why so many struggle and how caring
adults can help. Find out how Reading Rockets can inform and
Professional Development for
inspire parents, teachers, child care providers, administrators
Educators & Administrators
and others who touch the life of a child. Information will also
be provided on ¡Colorín Colorado! This web service was
developed by Reading Rockets to provide information,
activities and advice for Spanish-speaking parents and
educators of English language learners (ELLs).
Literacy, English Language
Learners
Face to Face
or Webinar
•
Workshop that offers simple strategies to help parents and
caregivers instill healthy behaviors in children and ensure that
they grow into strong adults.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Science, Physical Education,
Health, Literacy, Music
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
This multi-media workshop provides parents with tools to help
preschoolers along the exciting path from listening and
speaking - to reading and writing! It includes activities,
information and tips for making language and literacy
development a fun part of everyday life for children.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Many of today's online tools make it possible for us to connect
immediately with friends and family. Put these same tools to
Professional 2.0 Professional 2.0: work for you professionally! Showcase your center online,
Use Today's Social Networks to provide updates daily for parents through services like Twitter,
Enrich Your Outreach to Parents encourage teacher and parent collaboration online through
& Community
Facebook. Help younger staff already tuned into these
resources find out how to use them as an early childhood
professional.
Reading Rockets/Colorín
Colorado
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
Cost
$1,600//25parti
cipants
$1,600/25
parents
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Audience
Content Area
Format
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
Sid the Science Kid
Find out why Sid the Science Kid is the latest and greatest
resource for your future scientists. The "Sid the Science Kid"
workshop is designed to further develop children's natural
wonder and build a strong foundation for early science
exploration. Learn all about encouraging questions and
problem-solving on a shoestring budget with resources you
have around the house. Online and offline activities motivate
children to practice and internalize scientific methodology:
"Observe! Compare! Contrast! Describe!" Learn how the Sid
website is crafted to support a collaborative learning
experience between child and adult and offers features that
help adult mentors to support and participate in the child's
learning process.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
STEM, Science, Early
Childhood
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Smart use of media
Workshop designed to help adults use media as a way to help a
child’s development by learning a variety of tips and resources
available through PBS.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Litreacy, Technology
Face to Face
•
Both
$1,600/25
parents
This workshop addresses the challenges and rewards of caring
for a special needs child in your center or home. Participants
Supporting Children with Special
will become aware of resources available online and locally to
Needs using Resources from A
support their work with special needs children. Participants
Place of our Own/Los Niños en
will learn inclusion strategies for special needs children. All
su Casa
children have unique needs, and the needs of special needs
children are similar to and different from other children.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Early Childhood
Face to Face
or Webinar
•
The What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel? training
workshop explores anger, where it comes from, and how
young children can gradually learn the self-control necessary
to manage their anger and channel it into productive activity.
It also suggests ways to intervene when children act out or lose
control. Developed by Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Child
Care Partnership, it features video clips with Fred Rogers and
his neighbors, as well as early childhood educators responding
to real life situation with children. Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood is a PBS KIDS Legacy Program.
Early Childhood Educators &
Professionals
Early Childhood, Classroom
Management
Face to Face
•
Title
What Do You Do with the Mad
that You Feel?
Description
Series
/Standalone
Cost
$1,600/25
parents
Both
$1,600/25
parents
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Description
Audience
Content Area
Format
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
What's the Word on the Street
This program helps children learn new words by using the
Word on the Street materials which include activity sheets,
podcasts, and an interactive word game. These materials all
encourage children to explore words with all of their senses,
encouraging children to jump up and act out words, read
stories, make up songs, ask questions, and engage their
imaginations. Word cards demonstrate the meanings of 26
different words and the back of each card shows a learning
exercise that uses imaginative play and physical activity to get
children thinking about the concepts they are learning.
Teachers, Parents, Childcare
Providers, Grandparents
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Reading Resources on PBS
Workshop focused on the integration of early literacy
resources including PBS web resources and on air
programming into the classroom.
Educators
Literacy
Face to Face
or Webinar
•
Educators
Social Studies, Technology
Face to Face
or Webinar
Student Summer Session –
Professional Development and
resources for 25 students
STEM, Math, After School
Face to Face
or Webinar
Title
If you are looking for new ways to get your students excited
and engaged in history, geography, the arts and society, and a
range of other topics, you've come to the right place. Integrate
the study of material culture in a given community or society,
the material objects that people make, collect, and use, which
give insight into the beliefs and customs held by that
community. (artifacts and objects) into your teaching, using
Antiques Roadshow Primary
Sources Workshop for Educators objects appraised on ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. Through
questions, activities, and other resources, students take a closer
look at the "things" people have used throughout history to
create history — their own, their communities', and the world's
— and gain new insights and a sense of wonder about the
people and events of the past, the present, and perhaps the
future.
Cyberchase Summer Challenge
A fun math- and STEM-related 8-week kids Cyberchase Summer Challenge. Kids earn points and collect rewards each
time they make online games for others to play, do fun handson activities, play cybertrivia, and lots more.
Series
/Standalone
Cost
Both
$1,600/25
parents
$1,600//25parti
cipants
Both
$1,600//25parti
cipants
$1,600//25parti
cipants
Eight Educational Outreach Services
Title
Description
Audience
Content Area
Format
Bilingual
Materials &
Trainer
Available
Series
/Standalone
Cost
Invite Martha Speaks Reading
Buddies into Your Literacy
Program
This professional development and parent component pairs
with an 8-week long program hosted within a school or after
school program. Kindergarten students are partnered with
older elementary school students. Buddies visit with each
other once a week to learn special new vocabulary words, play
word games, watch a bit of Martha Speaks, read a book
together, and then finally write about their experience.
Research indicates that when children "buddy" up for learning
wonderful things take place for both older and younger
students!
Educators & Administrators;
Information for Parents
Literacy
Face to Face
•
Both
$6500 to
implement
entire
comprehensive
program including
professional
development
Language Arts Resources from
PBS!
Workshop focused on the integration of Language Arts
resources including PBS web resources and the use of on air
programming in the classroom such as The Electric Company.
Educators
Litreacy
Face to Face
or Webinar
•
Both
$1,600//25parti
cipants
MISSION US
Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive
adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first
game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in
the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in
1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks,
he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there
when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately,
the player determines Nat's fate by deciding where his
loyalties lie.
Educators
Social Studies, Technology
Face to Face
or Webinar
Standalone
$1,600//25parti
cipants