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KLRN Educator Resources | November 2024

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Ian Cruz
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KLRN Education

Dear Friends,

This month and all year long, we think about all that we are thankful for. Dear friends, we are thankful for you!

We invite you to check out FREE, fun professional development from PBS KIDS! From PBS KIDS, this self-paced professional development for PK3-2nd grade teachers highlights new tools to engage young minds. A fun chance to expand your toolkit, the training provides a certificate that may fulfill required hours for continuing education!

This month on KLRN, check out these fun educational programs:

  • Cyberchase (6:00 am - weekdays on KLRN 9.1)
  • Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (8:00 am - weekdays on KLRN 9.1)
  • Rosie’s Rules (8:30 am - weekdays on KLRN 9.1)
  • Sesame Street (9:00 am - weekdays on KLRN 9.1)
  • Molly of Denali (6:30 pm and 7:00 pm - weekdays on KLRN 9.3)
  • Let’s Go Luna! (8:30 pm - weekdays on KLRN 9.3)

 

Please see the KLRN Schedule for details on these and even more great shows for the whole family!

Our friends at Texas PBS have built a collection of resources about conservation for Texas teachers.Check out the collection of Texas Conservation Lesson Plans Available Now in PBS LearningMedia. Texas is home to some of the most unique wildlife, people and places in the nation. A new partnership between Texas PBS stations and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) showcases what we can all do to Take Care of Texas. Teachers are invited to take the pledge to make our state's unique resources available to the next generation. Texas PBS and TCEQ are teaming up to build more awareness of important ways we can all protect and conserve what’s unique about Texas. This new collection of free lesson plans and student worksheets designed to spark activities, lessons and discussions about conservation. Topics include air, water, and waste conservation tactics and strategies. The collection will use insights and data from TCEQ researchers and science experts. The Texas environmental collection is intended for K-12 classroom teachers, informal educators, and parents who are looking for science-based educational learning materials.

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

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VIRTUAL: Tuesday, 11/12 from 6-8pm: KLRN Educator Session: The Healthy Kids Project with Special Guest Sonia Flores, Bexar County Extension Agent: Sharing Healthy Foods Join KLRN for a Healthy Kids Project session with Special Guest Sonia Flores, Bexar County Extension Agent! We will discuss resources for eating healthy, and we will share recipes too! This session is geared toward early childhood and elementary educators, but all are welcome to attend. Thank you to the San Antonio Medical Foundation and Firstmark for supporting this event. 2 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82673416364?pwd=4ehL9ds7wkDhoImwmskev6OnYyBGDU.1

 

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VIRTUAL: Thursday, 11/14 from 6 - 7 pm: KLRN Educator Session: Empowering Children to Make a Difference in Their Community Join KLRN to learn about what makes a community is the first step in learning how to take care of our communities!This session is geared toward early childhood, but all are welcome to attend. Thank you to Firstmark for supporting this event. 1 hour of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodemtrTkvE9GUvZil7xZDD9zFq0WXXrZ0

 

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VIRTUAL: Tuesday, 11/19 from 6-7pm: KLRN Educator Session: Native American Heritage Month Join KLRN to learn about teaching resources for celebrating Native American Heritage Month. This session is open to educators of all grade levels. Thank you to Firstmark for supporting this event. 1 hour of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84243854262?pwd=HL96E5JC5vSAfiYy60tqIcFYC2lUF4.1

 

Please visit https://www.klrn.org/events/ to learn more and to register for any (or all!) of these sessions. Thank you to the San Antonio Medical Foundation and Firstmark Credit Union for generously supporting KLRN’s Educator Sessions. 

On PBS LearningMedia, 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: 

 

Alma’s Way (Grades PreK-2) ALMA’S WAY follows 6-year-old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group of close-knit friends and community members. In every episode, ALMA’S WAY aims to model self-awareness, self-advocacy, social awareness, cultural competency and responsible decision-making—encouraging kids to generate and value their own ideas and questions. ALMA’S WAY celebrates and explores the thinking process—Alma’s “way” is to think things through! As she shares her observations and feelings and works through challenges, she speaks directly to young viewers, offering them a window into her everyday life.

Cyberchase: Math (Grades K-8) This collection features a variety of resources designed to spark curiosity and boost math & problem-solving skills. Each resource integrates the fun and adventure of the animated series Cyberchase with practical math strategies for elementary and middle school students. Students will join the CyberSquad in exploring mathematical concepts, from basic numbers and operations to more complex topics like algebra and data analysis. Along with segments from the animated portion of the show, resources also include live action “Cyberchase: For Real” segments, which explore math concepts in everyday life that can be replicated at home and in the community. Cyberchase is the Emmy-winning animated series full of math and environmental adventures. It features three kids, known as The CyberSquad, who use brain power and problem-solving skills to outwit and outsmart the villain Hacker in their quest to save Cyberspace. Along the way, the CyberSquad perseveres over challenges to show how math is everywhere!

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (Grades PreK-2) Social-emotional development and academic success are much more related than many people think. We often hear talk about the academic curriculum or the social-emotional approach to early education as if these are two separate things. Research tells us that for children to be successful in school, they must be mentally healthy and they must have good interpersonal skills. Emotional development skills include the ability to regulate behavior, to manage feelings, to feel competent in completing tasks, and confident in trying new things. To help boost these invaluable skills among preschoolers, each episode of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood consists of two engaging stories that center on a common early learning theme with catchy, musical strategies that reinforce each theme and that preschoolers and adults will both sing – and use! – together in their daily lives.

Rosie's Rules (Grades 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. Like many children across the country, Rosie is part of a blended, multicultural family; Papá is from Mexico City and Mom is from rural Wisconsin. Rosie has a little brother, Iggy, and an older sister, Crystal, who is Mom’s child from her first marriage. The Fuentes family lives together in suburban Texas with their cat (and Rosie’s partner-in-crime), Gatita. Rosie is bilingual in English and Spanish and loves to celebrate her multicultural identity. Throughout the series, she joyfully introduces viewers to the art, traditions and foods of the Southwest, Midwest and Mexico.

Sesame Street (Grades PreK-2) Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos, games, and printable materials to help you to excite even the youngest learners. Plus, check out more from Sesame Street, including cross-platform educational games spanning wide-ranging curricular topics and STEM educator guides.

Molly of Denali (Grades K-2) Informational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the groundbreaking MOLLY OF DENALI™ series and its educational resources. The MOLLY OF DENALI™ collection offers videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities so that educators can utilize the series in the classroom. Set in a rural Alaskan village, and featuring the adventures of Molly, her family, and friends, MOLLY OF DENALI™ models the many ways that children can access and create informational text in their daily lives. At the same time, the stories are infused with Alaska Native values, history, traditions, language, as well as contemporary life. Ready to Learn | Molly of Denali

Let's Go Luna! (PreK-2) Let's Go Luna is a PBS KIDS show that follows Luna the Moon and her adventures with Andy, Carmen, and Leo as they travel around the world. Explore cities from all over the globe with these fun videos, and check out the support materials for great classroom activities that connect cultures from around the world to classroom activities.

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 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 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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