Teaching With PBS LearningMedia Empowers You to Engage Your Students

Explore Ideas From Teachers on Ways You Can Customize PBS LearningMedia Resources

  • Watch a video clip, as a bell ringer or exit ticket, followed by a discussion/written prompt(s).
  • Share video clips or images with students to help build background information before introducing a new topic.
  • Utilize video clips, images, and other primary sources to help provide context.
  • Differentiate instruction by allowing students to choose which videos to watch for an assignment or by readiness based on content/complexity.
  • Provide robust activities that are great for stations/centers.
  • Support students when they are conducting research projects.

 

Purposefully Integrate Media Into Your Instruction

  • Use the Teaching Tips accompanying our resources for suggestions about how to purposefully integrate media into your instruction using a “frame, focus, and follow-up” model.
  • Engage students in a before-viewing activity or set of questions to activate prior knowledge.
  • Encourage active media viewing by using the suggested set of while-viewing comprehension questions.
  • Develop higher-order thinking skills and encourage further exploration of the topic with the suggested after-viewing questions, discussion questions, and activity suggestions.
  • Our media-rich resources are intentionally designed to be flexible and offer a range of learning experiences to meet your instructional needs.
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Teacher exploring resources on the PBS LearningMedia site

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Shelly Bautista, PBS KIDS Early Learning Champion, Educator, California

Thousands of standard-aligned, trustworthy classroom resources to search and filter by:

  • Grade
  • Subject
  • Video length
  • Language
  • Accessibility supports
  • Resource type

Additional features to support your instruction

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Integrations with Google Classroom, Clever, Schoology, and Remind

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Curated Collections help you find themed materials for your classroom

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Lesson Builder gives you the tools to create and assign media-based lessons

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Favorites and Folders enable you to save and curate resources for sharing

Start Exploring PBS LearningMedia

Watch this video for an overview of the PBS LearningMedia website and tips to begin using our content in your classroom instruction.