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PBS KIDS APP OF THE MONTH!
WILD KRATTS WORLD ADVENTURE
Children ages 4 to 8 can tilt and tap their way through multi-level games that encourage exploration of habitats around the world. Focusing on science, each game lets kids observe, explore and use creature power suits to complete missions and help the Kratt Brothers. As levels are completed, kids earn creature power “selfies,” habitat stickers and “Wow! Facts” that help further their animal science and natural history learning.
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PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST 2023
DEADLINE APRIL 17, 2023
GPB’s PBS KIDS Writers Contest is open for entries! Georgia kids in kindergarten through third grade are encouraged to submit original, illustrated stories for great prizes and a chance to be featured on the GPB website.
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TEACHING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: RESOURCES FOR ALL AGES
Black History Month is celebrated each year in the United States during the month of February to coincide with the birthday of President Lincoln on February 12 and Frederick Douglass on February 14. Here are resources to help teach students about the significant events and people in African-American history in the United States.
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GPB & GALILEO PRESENT: GEORGIA'S G2 GUIDE TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
February 7, 2023 4:30PM to 5:30PM
Join your Georgia G2 partners, GPB & GALILEO, for a tour of our combined Civil Rights Movement teaching and learning resources, available free of charge for all Georgia teachers and students. Use what you've learned at the end for an Escape the Room challenge from GPB's Civil Rights Movement virtual learning journey.
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EXPLAINING TODAY: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA'S PAST EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE WORKSHOP
American Public Television and GPB Education are offering a summer series of train-the-trainer workshops for secondary and pre-service teachers. Each workshop uses episodes from the Emmy Award-winning documentary series The Future of America’s Past to model how teachers can develop learning resources to increase student media literacy and critical thinking skills through digital humanities projects that feature primary source/archival materials.
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POETRY IN AMERICA
GRADES 6-12
Poetry in America gathers distinguished interpreters from all walks of life to explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems. Athletes, poets, politicians, musicians, architects, scientists, actors, entrepreneurs, and citizens of all ages join together with host and Harvard professor Elisa New to experience and share the power of poetry.
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BUBBLE BUILD - GASHA GO! WORLD
GRADES K-2
It’s time to build some bubbles to fill the Gashapon arcade machine! Use your knowledge of numbers to help the Gashlings make as many bubbles as you can. Bubble Build is a skill-building math game that focuses on developing children’s number sense, which is a sense of what numbers mean and their relationship to one another. The game is designed for children ages 4-8.
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IT'S OKAY TO BE SMART
GRADES 9-12
It's Okay to be Smart is a show about science, but not the way you're used to it! Join host Joe Hanson as he explores the eccentricities of the scientific world. From physics and astronomy, to biology and neuroscience, nothing is off-limits in this quirky exploration of all science has to offer. The creative and fun design of the program, together with an enlightening exploration of new scientific ideas, shows that being smart isn't just okay, but truly exciting.
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GEORGIA'S OWN SWAMP THING
GRADES 3-8
Don Berryhill, science specialist with the Okefenokee Regional Education Service Agency, guides students in a canoe through the Okefenokee Swamp. Bill Cribbs, a descendant of a farmer who came to the Okefenokee in the late 1800s, and park ranger Pete Griffin describe life in the swamp when people worked at the Hebard Lumber Company. Like any mysterious place, legends abound, Cribbs and Griffin have a few stories to tell.
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LET'S LEARN GA! - ROOT VEGETABLES NUTRITION & ACTIVITIES
GRADES K-5
Discover a colorful variety of root vegetables in this episode of Let's Learn GA!. Did you know that there are 4 categories of vegetables? Leaf, stem, flowered and root- oh my! Join Chef Asata Reid as she teaches viewers how to roast February's harvest of the month: root vegetables.
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FULL-TIME KID
GRADES K-5
Full-Time Kid is all about being arts, crafts, and experiments perfect for kids of all ages! From DIY science experiments to playground games, eight-year-old Mya Reyes shares her tips, tricks and all around knowledge so you too can have what it takes to be a full-time kid.
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New Episodes of Let's Learn GA! Watch the series of video lessons now for grades K-12 taught by Georgia teachers and aligned to the Georgia Standards of Excellence. The lessons cover English language arts, fine arts, mathematics, physical health and wellness, science, and social studies.
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GPB Education has launched a robust website offering an abundance of PreK-12 digital learning resources and a new GPB-TV programming schedule to support at-home learning.
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