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KLRN Educator Resources | October 2024

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Ian Cruz
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KLRN Education

Dear Friends,

As we enter the autumn season,  KLRN PBS is happy to be a free, trusted educational resource for you! As an awesome new resource, 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, we continue our focus on the importance of community, civic engagement, and sharing our voices. Everyone is important, and is a valuable part of our community. From September 15-October 15, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and the amazing people of the past and present, and look ahead to the future pioneers of positive change!  KLRN offers a great variety of programs both on-air and online. This month on KLRN, check out these fun educational programs:

  • Alma’s Way (6:30 am - weekdays on KLRN 9.1)
  • Rosie’s Rules (8:30 am - weekdays on KLRN 9.1)
  • Elinor Wonders Why (12:00 pm - weekdays on KLRN 9.3)
  • Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (12:30 pm - 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 in 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.

KLRN Educator Trainings

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. 

  • VIRTUAL: Thursday, 10/17 from 6pm-7pm: KLRN Educator Session: All About Watt Watchers Join KLRN to learn about smart energy education and how to be an energy saver at school, at home, and in the community. We will explore free TEKS-aligned lessons and activities from Watt Watchers! Thank you to Texas State Energy Conservation Office, US Department of Energy, ITron, CPS Energy, The University of Texas at Austin, and Disco Learning Media 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/84847353146?pwd=ZEV1OU5WM2s2d3dIZ3VQVjJ0RVZ4UT09
     
  • VIRTUAL: Tuesday, 10/22 from 6 pm - 7pm KLRN Educator Session: Spending Sharing and Saving Using Sesame Workshop Resources Join KLRN and learn  about money and finances - it is more than understanding dollars and cents. Our friends from Firstmark will join us as well. 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/j/89482413149?pwd=HqGPlQ72MCOGxeydbFmFJagq90QIT2.1

 

  • VIRTUAL: Wednesday, 10/23 from 6pm-8pm: KLRN Educator Session: The Healthy Kids Project: Let's Make Healthy Fun Treats! Join KLRN to learn about The Healthy Kids Project and how we can make fun, healthy treats to enjoy this season and all year long! 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/88243772790?pwd=aHuwNMDxklc9A8umyZgQ0biLOdbcYN.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. 

 

PBS LearningMedia Resources

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.

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.

Ready to Learn | Elinor Wonders Why (PreK-2) Be curious with Elinor and her friends, Ari and Olive, in the PBS KIDS series Elinor Wonders Why. Find an array of resources—including interactive lessons, playlists, viewing guides, and printable activities—to encourage your students to ask questions, make observations, and bask in the wonderment of nature’s amazing answers! Learn more about the series and find full episodes, digital games, and home activities at the Elinor Wonders Why Collection.

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (Grades K-2) Engage students with Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, a PBS KIDS series based on the Ordinary People Change the World books by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos. The show follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina, and their friend Brad as they travel back in time to meet real life historical figures when they were kids. These video clips, teaching tips, and historical figure biosketches can support students’ social-emotional, literacy, and social studies skills.

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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