Sunday, July 26, 2009

Teachers' Domain - 100's of PBS-Based Lessons

NOVA, Frontline, and American Experience are three of PBS' hallmark series. Quite a bit of the content from those three programs is available online on the PBS website as well as on Snag Films. Teachers' Domain is another place to find great video content from PBS. But the real purpose of Teachers' Domain is to provide lesson plans and activities to match the media content from PBS and their content partners.

Teachers' Domain
offers lesson plans and activities for K-12 divided into five content categories. To help you narrow your search for lessons, the five categories, arts, language arts, science, mathematics, and social studies are divided into subcategories.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Scavenger Hunt Through History
PBS Launches a New Video Portal
The 1900 House - Exploring Life in the Victorian Era

1 comments:

Marsha said...

I've been using Teachers' Domain for about 2 years in my middle school science class. It has been such a lifeline for my studnets....the PBS video clips are powerful and so well done.

I think the best nugget within the website are all the animations. I am able to use those animations to demonstrate all sorts of scientific principles to my studnets....I think PBS created most of them and used them in their videos. Couple the animations with my SmartBoard and I have a highly engaging interactive learning activity for my students. They even want to go home and play with it!!!!

I'd recommend this website to anyone. It's simple to use and to save your finds into lesson plans.