Current & Trending

Girl Power: 5 Powerful Women in History

Here are five women, from across eras, who are notable for their contributions to U.S. and world history and deserve to be celebrated more than one month a year. Read their biographies below to learn more about the portrayal of women in U.S. history textbooks and social studies standards, as well as to find more resources you can use to celebrate in your classroom.

Current & Trending

10 Tips for Teaching About the Holocaust

Teaching about the Holocaust has been one of my career's most meaningful and challenging tasks. No other topic has allowed my students to struggle with complex issues and moral questions quite like the Holocaust. Whether you are teaching a short unit or a year-long elective, there is never enough time.

PBS in the Classroom

10 Resources for Your Classroom in the New Year

Let’s turn the calendar page and say goodbye 2023 – welcome 2024! Let’s unpack the latest, together.

Voices in Education

Five Small Ways to Cultivate Creativity in the Classroom

I hope the start of your school year is a beautiful one. May you continue to search for ways to foster creativity, curiosity, and gratitude. May you be empowered to create a place that both you and your students look forward to stepping into each day. May this year be full of joy and purpose. 

PBS in the Classroom

Encourage Exploration and Curiosity using PBS KIDS

Young children are naturally curious, and it’s our job as educators to encourage exploration and curiosity. Kids learn about the world and their role in it as they investigate, discover, and have conversations with others. PBS LearningMedia’s All About Me collection is designed to build kids’ curiosity while encouraging their concept of self, finding similarities and differences in various ways — and celebrating them. Here are some of my teaching tips on using these engaging lessons. 

PBS in the Classroom

Creating a “Community” Garden with Your Students..and Nature Cat

Garden planning is an exercise in matching creativity with functionality. With young children, you can draw from math, language arts and science curriculums, while providing experiences that impart a host of skills useful throughout life—skills that foster positive habits related to emotional health, nutrition, exercise and community involvement, among others.

Current & Trending

Girl Power: Women Who Make an Impact in the World of Civics

Through the intentional reflection of whose voices are included and represented when lesson planning, we are given the power to change what stories our students know. Educators can become advocates for the inclusion of women’s history, and immerse their female students in the possibility that they too can be change makers. Here are 5 resources from PBS LearningMedia that elevate women who have made, or are currently making an impact through civic engagement.

PBS in the Classroom

Are You Filtering PBS LearningMedia Resources by Standards Yet?

We know that every day in the classroom you’ve got a seemingly endless list of tasks to perform and planning to do and never enough time to get it all done. We want to help you use that limited time as efficiently as possible so have made some platform tweaks with that in mind.

Current & Trending

Making Black America: Pathways for Learning

History fills students with narratives that help make sense of the world around us – be it global, national, or local relationships. Studying history can inspire and motivate us, improve our decision-making and judgment. History helps us understand other cultures and ourselves, builds citizenship and civic engagement, and can provide insight into present-day problems. We can learn about past conflicts and learn how communities can rise above and provide strength, unity, and resources in the absence of that support, and create a...

Join the PBS Teachers Community

Stay up to date on the latest blog posts, content, tools, and more from PBS Education!

InfoQuotex