English Language Arts
Busterfield Library - A-Z — Between the Lions
Leon Redbone sings a fun alphabet song. In alphabetical order, each letter takes the stage along with a character or image that begins with that letter. (Grades: PreK-1)
Video Production - Behind the Scenes with the Pros
KET producer, writer, and host Renee Shaw discusses the importance of good writing skills in production. (Grades: 4-12)
Let's Tell a Story — Everyday Learning
This brief animation shares the story of a hamster as imagined by children. (Grades: PreK-1)
Oohhh Oobleck!
Jump in with both feet as you watch oobleck videos and learn to use captions and charts to make reading comprehension less messy and loads of fun. (Grade: 3)
Upper and Lowercase — Between the Lions
This video segment from Between the Lions stars an Elvis-like singer singing about upper- and lower-case letters. (Grades: PreK-1)
Inside/Outside — Sesame Street
A girl plans a picnic and learns all about the words "inside" and "outside" and what they mean. (Grades: PreK-1)
Camouflage
In this adventure, little Ioda takes hide and seek to a whole new level! Practice asking and answering questions like who, what, when, where, why, and how. (Grades: PreK-1)
The Three Little Pigs — Between the Lions
In this video segment from Between the Lions, Lionel the Lion models reading aloud as he reads the story of The Three Little Pigs to Leona. (Grades: PreK-1)
What Makes Your Friends Happy?
Watch as a PreK class participates in a shared writing activity in which a teacher creates a Language Experience Chart on friendship. (Grades: PreK)
George Washington Carver — Xavier Riddle
Learn about George Washington Carver with this video clip, printable biosketch reader, and support materials. (Grades: 1-2)
Letter Book
It's crafting time with your students! Introduce new vocabulary words to your students with this DIY letter book. (Grades: PreK-1)
Woolong's Pandas
Students compare and contrast information from three sources to determine the reasons that have contributed to the declining panda population. (Grades: 3-6)
The Case of the Smelly Backpack | Take the Stage
When Detective Bentley cannot figure out why his backpack is smelly, he retraces the events in his day to find clues. (Grades: 2-4)
Storytelling with Pictures
Students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts can be a valuable way to tell stories. (Grades: 3-6)
Picnic Patrol: P — Sesame Street
The ant picnic patrol go on a search for foods that start with the letter P. This and others like it support letter recognition. (Grades: PreK-1)
The Ants and the Grasshopper
This is an original animated retelling of a classic Aesop fable that appeared on BETWEEN THE LIONS. (Grades: PreK-1)
What's the Author's Purpose — Animal Shelter
Students will learn how to determine an author's purpose. The author may be trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or describe. (Grades: 4-6)
Recipe for Writing
REACH for more! Be an author! Write and illustrate your very own story by mixing up a simple recipe of WHO, WHERE, WHAT, and ENDING. (Grade: PreK)
What is a Hero?
Students watch a short video about Ping, a young hero who proves himself worthy to be the emperor of China. (Grades: 1-4)
Friends
True friends come in all sizes! Enjoy a fresh take on an old story about a lion and a mouse. (Grades: PreK-2)
Violet's Music — Between the Lions
Cleo reads the Lion family a story of a little girl named Violet who loves music and searches for people just like her. (Grades: PreK-1)
Baseball Field Trip
At Marlins' Park, kids meet the team mascot, run on the field, pitch in the bullpen, bat in the batting cages and hang out in the President’s Suite. (Grades: PreK-3)
How to Avoid Inappropriate Shifts — No Nonsense Grammar
Watch out for inappropriate shifts! A shift is when there is a disparity between the perspectives, from first person, second person, and third person. (Grades: 3-8)
P Is for Princess — Sesame Street
The Princess wears a purple dress while she has a picnic with her poodle. This video focuses on letter recognition and letter P vocabulary. (Grades: PreK-1)
Kindergarten Field Trip
Are you ready to take the next big step into Kindergarten? Go on a field trip and see how kindergarteners follow rules, make friends, and write their own names. (Grades: PreK-3)
Mountain Scramble: An Ecosystem Game
Players strive to create a balanced mountain ecosystem in which each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days. (Grades: 1-4)
Sesame Street Story Book Builder
Early readers will love building their own story book with Elmo, Abby Cadabby, or Cookie Monster! A perfect tool for helping identify feelings and emotions, word and letter recognition, and letter sounds. (Grades: PreK-K)
Reading Charts and Tables - Garden Spiders
After watching a video about garden spiders, students will read a chart that reflects the information in the segment. (Grades: 3-6)
How to be an Inventor — Martha Speaks
In this Martha Speaks interactive story, learn about how new devices are developed. (Grades: K-5)
A Tale of Two Soup Cans - Martha Speaks
In this Martha Speaks interactive story, students learn how the choices we make about our trash have different consequences for our environment. (Grades: K-5)
Horse Farm Field Trip
On this field trip, Penny and the kids visit Condee Horse Farm and learn the names of horse body parts, feed horses, ride a horse, and run like a horse. Giddy Up! (Grades: PreK-3)
A Visit to Yellowstone
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, a young guide offers viewers a tour of the park and explains how Earth's internal heat fuels geothermal formations. (Grades: 3-8)
Word on the Street: Persistent — Sesame Street
Expand children’s vocabulary with a word that starts with P in this clip from Sesame Street’s Word on the Street. Murray introduces the word, “persistent.” (Grades: PreK-1)
Inside the Classroom: Kindergarten
Learn how Mrs. Hake teaches letters, sounds and sight words while her students practice three big things: speaking & listening, reading and writing. (Grades: PreK-1)
Getting to the Game - Martha Speaks
In this Martha Speaks interactive story, learn about different types of vehicles, how they operate, and how technology makes transportation easier. (Grades: K-5)
Hyphenation Conventions
Hyphens indicate specific nouns from compound words. Without them, they could refer to completely different things! Know when and how to use them. (Grades: 2-12)
Mathematics
Sorting it Out
This group activity from PBS KIDS Lab encourages students to observe carefully, analyze and make comparisons and predictions based on data they gather. (Grades: PreK-K)
Counting by Tens Song — Peg + Cat
In this clip that corresponds to the activity Chicken Feed, Ramone and Peg sing a song about counting by 10's while they save the chickens from Big Mouth. (Grades: PreK-2)
Pienado! Odd Squad
This game from Odd Squad will help children with identifying two-dimensional shapes, such as rectangles, squares and triangles, and combining shapes to fit a pattern. (Grades: 1-3)
Explore the Relationship Among Fractions & Decimal Notat
This series of videos explores the relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents, which can be used to represent the same values in different ways. (Grades: 4-5)
Agent Obfusco's Challenges — Odd Squad
Olive and Otto have to solve a series of challenges to keep their Odd Squad badges. (Grades: K-3)
How Does your Garden Grow? — Cyberchase
In this media-rich activity from Cyberchase, students review the elements that are needed to make a garden grow. (Grades: 3-5)
Harry's Job at the Candy Store
In this video from Cyberchase, Harry gets a job at a candy store. Customers who come into the store use fractions to order boxes of different types of chocolates. (Grades: 4-5)
Non-Standard Measurement — Sid the Science Kid
This video will help children learn about non-standard measurement. Students use the length of their bodies to measure the size of their classroom. (Grades: PreK-2)
Cupcake Math — Super Why
Cooking with children is a great way to teach them about measurement and help them learn the language of math. (Grades: PreK-K)
Exploring Number Patterns to Discover Common Factors
Students explore different repeating patterns to predict when two or more events will occur at the same time. (Grades: 3-6)
Do You See My Seahorse? - The Cat in the Hat
Use this Cat in the Hat game to help children recognize numbers and count and add groups of objects. (Grades: PreK-2)
Balancing Nature: Science Crafts for Kids — Peg + Cat
Make a balancing scale with your child at home to compare the weights of objects found in nature. (Grades: PreK-3)
Enough with the Sea Shells — Sid the Science Kid
In this episode of Sid the Science Kid, Sid uses a new strategy called estimation for making his best guess how many seashells he has. (Grades: PreK-1)
How Clocks Work
Students are introduced to the elements necessary to keep track of time, and they are also exposed to a variety of time pieces. (Grades: 2-5)
Two Quarts of Blob - Odd Squad
This video will help children with measuring liquids in quarts and gallons. When agents capture pieces of the Blob, they visit the Mathroom to see who has more. (Grades: K-3)
The Whale Episode — Sid the Science Kid
Sid has a new ruler and wants to measure the biggest animal in the world: the Blue Whale! How can he use a little ruler to measure something so big? (Grades: PreK-1)
QuizBus: Dealing with Data
Students practice collecting data, presenting it in an understandable fashion, analyzing the data through graphing. (Grades 3-8)
Rounding to the Tenths Place
This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about number lines and rounding to the tenths place. (Grades: 4-5)
Horizontal and Vertical Distances on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place aquatic animals at locations on a Cartesian graph with cardinal directions. (Grades: 5-6)
Bathtub Splash — Peg + Cat
How many buckets of water will it take to fill the tub for Peg and Cat? First, make an estimate. Don’t worry, it’s just a guess. Then let’s try it to find out! (Grades: K-2)
Ruff Ruffman's Monumental Mini Golf
Ruff is on a mission to build the tallest, longest, and heaviest mini-golf course in the world and he needs help! (Grades: 1-3)
Climate Change Projections
The Colorado River streamflow is projected to decrease over the course of this century. The estimates range from about 5% to 15%. (Grades: 4-12)
Measuring is Fun — Everyday Learning
How many books high is the chair? How many teddy bears to reach the top of the rocking horse? Early learners practice non-traditional forms of measurement. (Grades: PreK)
Brachio-Balance — Dinosaur Train
A spin on the classic Tug-o-War game, two teams of dinos play tug-o-war over a mud-filled pit. (Grades: K-5)
Deep Sea Follow Me — The Cat in the Hat
This Cat in the Hat game helps children to describe, name, and interpret relative positions in space using position words such as under, over, next to and behind. (Grades: PreK-2)
Highlight Zone — Peg + Cat
Peg and Cat have to spot ten differences in the Highlight Zone to get things back to normal. (Grades: PreK-K)
New Age Curriculum Songs | Media Arts Toolkit
The New Age Curriculum project uses the idea of songwriting and recording to help students understand math concepts. (Grades: K-13+)
Pattern Recognition — Cyberchase Games
Identify the patterns using addition, subtraction, and geometry to solve the puzzle and crack Hacker's code. (Grades: 1-4)
The Really Big Shoe Sale
Use what you know about percents, ratios, and proportions to figure out the sale price in this real world application of math. (Grades: 4-6)
Is There a Problem? — Cyberchase
Students learn that drinking plenty of water is important for good health but the plastic water bottles they drink from can lead to trash problems. (Grades: 3-5)
Peg Finds Her Marble — Peg + Cat
When Peg's marble accidentally flies into one of many identical bowls of spice, Cleopatra shows her how to use a pan balance to see which bowl contains her marble. (Grades: PreK-1)
Race to the Top Floor
In this video from Let's Learn, Lily Fincher and Omar Etman play a board game that involves counting to get to the top floor of a building. (Grades: PreK-2)
Science
Mangroovin' — Plum Landing
Take on the role of baby groupers, fish who grow up in the shelter of mangrove roots. The goal is to find food without falling prey to hungry predators. (Grades: 1-4)
Make a Web — Wild Kratts
Use this Wild Kratts video to teach children how spiders make their webs, the types of silk they spin and how they capture prey. (Grades: PreK-4)
Man vs. Elephant
Read like a detective and solve a BIG problem on the island of Sumatra where man and Asian elephants struggle to live together and get along. (Grade: 3)
Fish Force Game — The Ruff Ruffman Show
Use science inquiry to predict and investigate forces and motion to help rescue Ruff's plushie from the penguins' ice rink in this sports science game. (Grades: K-2)
Polar Bear Slip and Slide — Nature At-Home Activities
Learn how a mother polar bear’s feet help her cross the ice and snow. Examine how different textures provide grip on slippery surfaces with this fun activity! (Grades: PreK-4)
Sink of Float - Everyday Learning
Students are asked whether they think an item will sink or float, the item is then dropped into a fish tank, and the results are charted. (Grades: PreK-1)
Butterfly World Field Trip
Witness metamorphosis, examine live butterflies, float with butterflies in a rainforest cave, and see a collection of the most beautiful butterflies in the world. (Grades: PreK-3)
Whatever Floats Your Boat — The Cat in the Hat (full length)
Join Sally, Nick, and the Cat in the Hat as they go to the Floating Island and learn about why certain objects float and others sink! (Grades: PreK-K)
Ants and Plants | Education through Puppetry
This short video uses puppets to show how ants help plants grow. (Grades: PreK-5)
Zoo Field Trip
At Zoo Miami, children explore the zoo, wash rhinos, feed a giraffe and ride a camel. Children will love seeing all of these wild animals. (Grades: PreK-3)
Aquaponics: Reducing Impacts of Overfishing
Analyze data that convey the effects of decades of fishing and learn how one girl designed an aquaponics system as a solution to overfishing in this PBS KIDS video. (Grades: 3-5)
Rare Creature Cards
Explore a set of digital trading cards featuring photos by Joel Sartore and learn more about endangered animals in this Creature Cards interactive from WGBH. (Grades: 4-5)
Whatever Floats Your Boat — The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot A
The Cat in the Hat helps create engineering adventures for your students! In Whatever Floats Your Boat, the Cat invites them along to help solve a problem. (Grades: PreK-K)
Views of Earth Features from Space
Analyze and annotate select surface features from photographs taken by astronauts. (Grades: 3-5)
Five Senses - Curious George
Children explore how people and animals use their senses to learn about the world in this lesson featuring a hands-on activity and a video from Curious George. (Grades: PreK-1)
Science Museum Field Trip
At the Miami Science Museum kids find out how to mix colors with their own shadows, learn how levers work on a giant swing and much more. (Grades: PreK-3)
Seeing Sounds
Listen up! Take this sound safari with a roaring lion for your guide. Make your own musical sounds, and experiment with hearing and seeing sound waves. (Grade: 3)
STEM from the START — Materials 1
The Quinks surprise Willow with a chair made of cardboard for her birthday, but Willow doesn't want to sit in it. Can you guess why? (Grades: PreK-3)
Unlikely Partners—Warthog and Mongoose
Learn about the unusual animal partnership between warthogs and mongooses in this video from the NATURE mini-series Spy in the Wild. (Grades: K-5)
Reducing the Impact of Flooding
Engage in the iterative design process to build a fictional flood-resistant city, using a defined amount of funds and building materials in this PBS KIDS game. (Grades: 3-5)
Butterfly Life Cycle
Through video content and interactive activities, students will discover the amazing transformation process from a tiny caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. (Grades: K-3)
The Dirt on Dirt — Sid the Science Kid
Sid and his friends learn that dirt is really important to the Earth because it helps things grow. (Grades: PreK-1)
Light Sources
Explore natural and human made light sources in the environment in this live-action video. (Grades: K-2)
Weather Factors — Peep and the Big Wide World
Explore key characteristics of weather in these short, animated videos from PEEP and the Big Wide World. (Grades: K-2)
Growing Plants - Sid the Science Kid
Students plant lima bean seeds in class and watch them grow. Then they compare and measure the size of their plants. (Grades: PreK-2)
Changing Position of the Sun in the Sky
Observe how the Sun appears to rise in one side of the sky set in the opposite side. Put together a puzzle to show the path of the Sun in the sky. (Grades: K-2)
The Sun, The Sky and a Whole Lotta Pie
Explore the relationship between the Sun’s apparent path in the sky and changing shadows with this interactive game featuring PBS KIDS character Ruff Ruffman. (Grades: 3-5)
STEM from the START — Materials 2: Properties
When you are making something, it is important that you pick the right materials with the right properties to do the job! (Grades: PreK-3)
Georgia Forests — Virtual Learning Journey
Take an interactive journey through the working forests of Georgia to learn about forest ecosystems, food webs, life cycles and much more. (Grades: 3-6)
Observing the Moon
Observe how the Moon changes in the day and night sky. Use these videos to compare the Moon in the day and night sky and describe how it changes the sky over time. (Grades: K-2)
Animals and Plants can Live in the City
Students explore how animals and plants meet their basic needs in a city, with help from Plum and her friends from PLUM LANDING. (Grades: K-2)
Evidence of Weather
Observe and annotate various images of weather phenomena in this interactive drawing tool. (Grades: K-2)
The Very Big Rock — Peep and the Big Wide World
Explore landforms and water bodies in this animated video from PEEP and the Big Wide World. (Grades: K-2)
Mixing Colors - Everyday Learning
What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow? Children learn about mixing two colors to create a new color in this animated video. (Grades: PreK-1)
Water Cycle Animation | Clue into Climate
See what happens when there are changes in the regional water cycle. (Grades: 4-8)
Plum Island Explorer: Land and Water
Students must follow a map of the island to explore various landforms and bodies of water in this interactive game. (Grades: K-2)
How Animals Care for Their Young
In this interactive lesson, students learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them. (Grades: K-2)
Nature Nuggets: The Ants Go Marching
Watch how ants cut through leaves and carry them overhead, while marching in a line. (Grades: PreK-2)
Dinosaur Exhibit Field Trip
At the Dinosaurs in Motion exhibit, kids dig for fossils, create a dinosaur skeleton and see life-size dinosaurs in action. (Grades: PreK-3)
Social Studies
Cultural Rhythm: Drums — Sesame Street
Introduce different instruments from across South America and explore the music of a different culture. (Grades: PreK-1)
The Latino Festival Song | Sesame Street
Mando sings about many different Spanish-speaking countries in the world like Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and more! (Grades: PreK-1)
I Wanna See the States
Pop band HelloGoodbye sings about the 50 States of America. All 50 states are mentioned in one song that focuses on the people, culture, or geography of each region. (Grades: 2-6)
Around the Block Activities — Arthur
Explore how people are alike and different, the activities will help children understand and appreciate what we share in common and what makes each of us unique. (Grades: PreK-2)
From Kitty Hawk to the Heavens
Over the last century, airplane design has progressed rapidly from the Wright Flyer demonstration in 1903 to the launch of SpaceShipOne a century later. (Grades: 2-5)
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Use XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM video clips, teaching tips, and historical figure biosketches to support students’ literacy and social studies skills. (Grades 1-2)
The Sawyer Show | Take The Stage
Sawyer, a student in history class, imagines himself hosting a talk show with guests George Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dolores Huerta. (Grades: K-2)
The Four Seasons
Learn about the seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter. Why do we have seasons? Learn about how the tilt of the earth affects climate in different parts of the world. (Grades: K-3)
Meet the Helpers | Doctors are Helpers: In-Depth
Dive deeper into a doctor's career and find out how this Helper assists in emergency situations. (Grades: PreK-3)
Being a Good Citizen
Learn from students what it means to be a good citizen at their school. Students demonstrate how taking responsibility for jobs in the classroom is a privilege! (Grades PreK-2)
Speaking Out — Arthur
Francine discovers chemicals from lawn fertilizer are causing fish to die, she's determined to raise awareness about the dangers of poisoning the environment. (Grades: PreK-2)
Buster's Egyptian Adventure
Students join Buster Baxter on a trip to Egypt in this interactive geography lesson. Students learn about Cairo, ancient Egypt, the pyramids and the Nile River. (Grades: 2-3)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - PBS World Explorers
Over a period of two years, Lewis and Clark successfully crossed the entire western half of the United States, mapping out the region while exploring its resources. (Grades: 4-8)
An Artist in the Family
This video segment takes students into Manuela’s home for a close look at her grandmother’s paintings to learn some of her techniques and about life in Columbia. (Grades: PreK-5)
First Fish — Molly of Denali
Explore Alaska Native culture and values using "First Fish," an 11-minute animated story from the PBS KIDS series Molly of Denali. (Grades: K-2)
Arthur’s Park Game
Practice taking action to improve your world by playing Arthur's Park. (Grades: PreK-2)
Communication Innovators
Explore the great advances in long-distance communication that resulted from the innovations of Samuel F. B. Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, and Guglielmo Marconi. (Grades: 2-5)
Rosa Parks
This interview with civil rights activist Rosa Parks describes her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (Grades: 3-12)
Galileo: Sun-Centered Universe
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about the two opposing worldviews and the strong piece of evidence Galileo offered to support the heliocentric theory. (Grades: 3-12)
Cultural Connections — Arthur
Providing daily exposure to various cultures enriches your children's experiences. Enable them to appreciate and share their heritage in this activity from Arthur. (Grades: PreK-4)
The Powers of Government
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students learn about the three branches of the United States government. (Grades: 5-8)
Know Ohio: How Ohio’s Cities Got Their Names
Explore how some Ohio cities were named after settlers, figures in history, other cities from around the world or by incorporating words from other languages. (Grades: 3-8)
Native Americans Uses for Plants & Natural Resources
Learn how the Native people of Nevada used the natural materials and resources that were available to them for clothing and shelter. (Grade: 4)
A Letter to My Brother
Students read a letter written by a soldier during the Civil War about his experiences. Students write a letter of their own to describe a personal experience. (Grades: 4-7)
Map Borders
Learn about map borders and complete an interesting hands-on activity. (Grades: PreK-4)
