Helping Students Create School Newscasts
Illinois Public Media's Kimberlie Kranich describes the excitement of teaching students to create newscasts for Stratton Leadership & Microsociety Magnet School in Champaign.
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PBS LearningMedia engages students
Champaign 4th graders tour WILL to learn about primary sources
Presenting books in concert at Words in the Wind
Illinois Public Media helps Stratton students produce newscasts
Book Mentor students become dirt detectives
Head Start children use iPad to play PBS learning games
Stories of Impact
SuperWhy! in the Classroom
Head Start teacher Cecelia Mintz thought kids’ shows were just kids’ shows until she saw how the children in her classroom responded to the PBS KIDS early literacy series SUPER WHY! As one of more than 60 teachers in Illinois Public Media’s Book Mentor Project, Mintz watches episodes of SUPER WHY! with her classroom and integrates concepts and activities from the show into her curriculum.
Book Mentor Project
Illinois Public Media’s book mentor project, now in its ninth year, gets kids excited about reading, and puts books into the hands of families who otherwise might not have access to books at home.
The project recruits and trains volunteers come from local businesses, community service organizations, student associations and parent groups.
Stratton MicroSociety Project
Illinois Public Media is helping students and teachers at the Stratton Leadership & MicroSociety Magnet School in Champaign create, maintain and staff their 21st Century Digital Media Center. Their Center allows them to run their own video production studio, anchor newscasts, write and videotape stories, edit video and publish content on their website, strattonsociety.org.
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