Our Content: Designed for Educators, with Educators

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Created in close collaboration with educators and subject matter experts

Our resources span eight subject areas plus professional development, grouped by grade bands to help you quickly find high-quality materials.

Drawing on a nationwide network of collaborators and contributors

More than 60 producing PBS stations from across the country work with educators in their communities to develop materials for PBS LearningMedia.
We work with many organizations and people to develop collections of standards-aligned content, lesson plans, and more.
They include:

Aquarium of the Pacific
Center for Asian American Media
Independent Lens
Latino Public Broadcasting

Library of Congress
NASA
National Gallery of Art

Nature Conservancy
PBS NewsHour
P.O.V.
Pulitzer Center

RetroReport
Smithsonian Institute
StoryCorps

Designed to supplement classroom instruction

video segments from award-winning PBS documentaries and series
original video and interactive resources custom-built for classroom use

Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, including:

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Common Core State Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
Early Learning Outcomes Framework
National Standards for Civics and Government
Benchmarks for Science Literacy
College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education

Committed to inclusive design principles

Our content is aligned closely to the six core principles of the PBS Editorial Standards:

Independence
Accuracy
Fairness

Transparency
Inclusiveness
Accountability

These principles provide the framework for how we assess content distributed across PBS platforms and extend to the creation of children’s content.