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KLRN Educator Resources | January 2024

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Dear Friends,

Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate new beginnings, help one another to do our best, and look forward with hope in the new year.

On KLRN, both on air and online, you can always find an excellent variety of outstanding programs both on-air and online. Check out these amazing programs on 9.1 this month: Be sure to watch the latest season of All Creatures Great & Small as we prepare for the Season 4 premiere this month. Also enjoy favorites like Rosie's Rules, Donkey Hodie, and Alma's Way

We invite you to join us for our January educator sessions which, as always, are free of charge and offer continuing education credit.

  • Tuesday, 01/09 from 6pm-7pm (virtual): KLRN Educator Session: Seasons and Our Place in the Solar System - REGISTER HERE 
  • Tuesday, 01/16 from 6pm-8pm (virtual): KLRN Educator Session with Special Guest Caylee Haus of Twin Cities PBS: The Healthy Kids Project: Starting the New Year with Healthy Habits - REGISTER HERE
  • Tuesday, 01/23 from 6pm-7pm (virtual): KLRN Educator Session: Growing Healthy Bodies and Minds for the New Year With Sesame Workshop Resources - REGISTER HERE
  • Saturday, 01/27 from 9am-12pm (in-person at KLRN): “Calm, Collected, and Ready to Learn”: Part 1 of a 3-Part Series, Growing Healthy and Strong Series (in-person session) - REGISTER HERE
  • Wednesday, 01/31 from 6pm-8pm (virtual): Part 2 of Growing Healthy and Strong Series: “Healthy Recipes, Healthy Choices, Healthy Me” - REGISTER HERE
     

We are also excited to tell you about the Alamo STEM Ecosystem (ASE) Educator Conference on Saturday, February 3rd! This full-day conference is free, and will be held at the Palo Alto College Performing Arts Center. The ASE Educator Conference registration page is now open! Please share it with all your teacher friends and partners. This FREE STEM conference will be held at Palo Alto College on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Please see the website for more details. Please learn more at this link and share this flyer.

Thank you to Firstmark Credit Union for their support of KLRN’s educator training sessions. Please learn more about these upcoming sessions and more events at klrn.org/events.

On PBS Learning Media, you can find thousands of high-quality educational resources for all grade levels for free! Setting up an account is easy to do (and completely free!) Visit https://klrn.pbslearningmedia.org/ to sign up today to get access to any of the over  30,000 state standards-aligned educational resources for free! Here is a short video tutorial that explains how in a few quick steps, you can create an account and create class rosters, too. Some highlighted PBS Learning Media collections and resources we recommend this month are: 

 

Donkey Hodie Collection (Grades PreK-2) Donkey Hodie online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce social emotional curriculum. In every episode of this puppet series for 3-5-year-olds, Donkey Hodie and her pals, Purple Panda, Duck Duck and Bob Dog, empower preschoolers to dream big and overcome obstacles in their own lives, to work hard and persevere in the face of failure, to be resourceful and discover they are capable of solving problems on their own—and to laugh themselves silly along the way. The learning goals for Donkey Hodie focus on self-regulation and executive function skills, with an emphasis on resilience, persistence, and problem solving. The characters in the whimsical world of Someplace Else model ways to think about creative solutions to problems, which will, in turn, inspire our viewers as they tackle problem solving in their everyday lives. As they watch Donkey Hodie, kids will learn to face their fears and challenges with positivity, and enjoy the success that comes from trying hard and doing their best. The resources in this collection will help you explore the concepts introduced in Donkey Hodie with activity ideas, video clips, and digital games. Use these resources to help your students explore self-regulation and executive function skills -- the Donkey Hodie way! Most of these resources are available in both English and Spanish.

SciGirls | Horsing Around 01: Mentor Moment (Grades 3-8) Seeing women who have succeeded in STEM helps inspire and motivate girls, especially when they can relate to these mentors as people with lives outside of the lab. The SciGirls talk with their mentor about how her interest in horses when she was their age led to her career as a veterinarian.

Following a Bedtime Routine | Rosie's Rules (PreK-2) Rosie’s Rules is a new PBS KIDS® animated comedy series for preschoolers starring 5-year-old Rosie Fuentes, a Mexican-American girl just beginning to learn about the wow-mazing world. Rosie’s Rules aims to teach children concrete social studies lessons about how a community works, helping them develop an awareness of themselves as individuals and as part of a broader society. Doing things in the right order (a routine) can help achieve a goal. Rosie realizes that to take Iggy to bed she has to follow a routine, and that it is important to follow the right order to complete the routine.

Zoo Veterinarian | Great Job! (Grades 6-8) Dr. Selig talks about his job as a zoo veterinarian, his responsibilities and duties, as well as the training and formal education he received at the Ohio State University. We will follow the doctor throughout a typical day as he works with both keepers and veterinary assistants to treat the hundreds of species in his care. Two of the highlights of his round will be a routine checkup of a sloth and a physical examination of an elephant. Wait a minute... science, technology, engineering and math... at the zoo? You bet!

James Herriot: Masterpiece: Literary Drama (Grades 6-12) Explore the theme of modernity in James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small. In these video excerpts from the 2021 MASTERPIECE film adaptation, the new veterinarian confronts distrust and suspicion from farmers when he gently dismisses their folk remedies and introduces a modern treatment for their cow. Modernity is a recurring theme of Wight’s work. 

 

KLRN’s The Healthy Kids Project (Grades PreK-2): The Healthy Kids Project uses song, movement, and animation in ten engaging lessons that support healthy choices and attitudes--teaching not only successful actions (limiting refined sugar, choosing water as a beverage, choosing fresh foods over processed foods), but also successful strategies (valuing the body, not letting past mistakes impede future success, taking one step at a time toward a goal, helping others to make good choices.) Each lesson contains a 60-second video and is accompanied by an overview, lesson plan and student activity. It’s a turnkey kit for teachers to impart critical life lessons about health, without taking time away from core subjects.

Watt Watchers (All Grades): Watt Watchers of Texas is a state-sponsored STEM program to help boost energy literacy for K-12 students and help schools save money by saving energy. Through the program, students, teachers, and families will have access to energy saving tips, activities, and lessons. Launched in 1985, Watt Watchers of Texas is an updated resource that builds upon the original beloved program and provides a modern look at energy, sustainability and conservation.

As always, at the bottom of this post, you will find a list of links of organizations, both local and nationally, that provide mental health resources. Please know that you are important and you make the world a nicer place. Thank you for being you. Reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org. 

With appreciation,

KLRN Education Team

 

Mental Health Resources

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