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May the Fourth Be With You: Real-World Connections in the Classroom and Beyond Blog Celebrate Star Wars Day in your classroom with this blog post, featuring space-related classroom resource recommendations from English teacher Katherine Mulrooney! Discover a galaxy of interdisciplinary activities that bring the Force into subjects like STEM, language arts, social studies, and the visual arts.
Launch Your Class to the Moon and Back Blog Featuring 26 PBS Learning Resources!
Butterfly Life Cycle (K-2) Students explore how butterflies change and grow throughout their life cycle in this interactive lesson from NATURE. Through captivating video content and interactive activities, students will discover the amazing transformation process from a tiny caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. For more resources from NATURE, check out the collection page.
Why Summer Days Have More Daylight | Interactive Lesson (3-5,6-8) Students use and develop models of the Earth–Sun systems to demonstrate understanding of how the Sun illuminates the hemispheres differently during summer and winter. Visual supports (video, images), data graphs, and informational text provide students with multiple entry points to investigating the phenomenon of the changing duration of daylight. This interactive provides the context and sources of data students can use to gather evidence that supports an explanation of why summer days have more daylight than winter days.
Environmental Benefits of Eating Insects | Edible Insects (6-8) Learn how insects can be an efficient source of protein as well as a solution to tackle meat production challenges and food waste in this video from NOVA: Edible Insects. Use this resource to illustrate the environmental costs of a human activity and an innovative way to reduce the associated impacts.
The Ups and Downs of Social Media: Evaluating Mental Health Effects on Teens | On Our Minds Podcast (6-8,9-12) In this lesson, students will listen to an episode of On Our Minds, a youth-led podcast exploring issues pertaining to mental health among teenagers. This episode focuses on the positives and negatives of social media on youths’ mental health. Students will be listening to first hand anecdotes from teens who have faced challenges because of social media and some who’ve overcome them.
Discovery Education: Plan Ahead For Back To School 2025!
Check out these incredible updates to Discovery Education Experience platform! Explore this studio board that highlights some of the exciting updates for back-to-school.
*LPB Discovery Education subscription required from your district or school -- contact Nancy Tooraen at ntooraen@lpb.org for more information.
PREK, K-2 News
Skillsville A virtual world where young learners build essential life skills that go far beyond the classroom! Through engaging videos and interactive activities, your students will have the opportunity to practice communication, empathy, problem-solving, self-control, and teamwork — skills that help them navigate both school and everyday life with confidence. From handling big feelings to practicing cognitive flexibility, these activities from Skillsville will provide your students with the tools they need to grow into thoughtful, capable members of their communities.
Expressing Emotions: Part 1 | Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Watch the clip, Friends and Feelings, from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood to spark conversations about emotions. Then, use the lesson plan to help your students practice identifying emotions and facial expressions.
Family Activity | Is It an Insect? Learn how to identify an insect and use what you learned to find the insects hiding among other bugs in a picture in this activity based on the PBS KIDS show Elinor Wonders Why. Follow the directions to make your own field guide to insects and take it with you on an insect hunt!
Teach Your Way: Self-Love and Affirmations | PBS KIDS Teachers, your hard work makes a big difference every single day! Use this printable for some mindful coloring and words of affirmation to bring some positivity into your day. Cut and post these notes around your classroom or share them with another teacher.
Make Forget-Me-Not Paper Flowers Children love to express how much they love their moms, aunties, and grandmas. They especially like it when they can make something on their own and it was a total surprise!
Get Excited About Science Super Stars With CHIP KIDS
SHARE YOUR SCIENCE SUPERSTARS WITH THE WORLD
The makers of the science series CHIP KIDS are looking for classes to be featured in Season 2 of this exciting and fun series!
CHIP KIDS is a fun YouTube series designed to spark interest in STEAM concepts, particularly semiconductors!
Each episode is made in collaboration with educators, engineers, and industry experts and features a fun, hands-on experiment that can be recreated using ordinary, safe materials. The series and the accompanying learning materials aim to inspire and motivate all students to see science careers as exciting opportunities they can achieve.
Check out the playlist on YouTube @TheChipKids. Maybe your kids are ready to shine in the science spotlight! Visit the CHIP KIDS website at www.chipkids.org to learn more and look for the simple application link at the top of the website.
LDMA : A Day at the Museum
The LDMA is enjoying a virtual Day at the Museum this month in honor of International Museum Day on May 18th! Through the years, LPB has visited exhibits on a wide variety of topics at both large and small museums around Louisiana. Explore exhibits of both local and international art, local history, ancient artifacts, and natural history. Check out a sampling of our museum stories HERE!
May Highlights From LPB
Nature: Hummingbirds of Hollywood - Wednesday, May 7 at 7PM Amid the glamour of Hollywood, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in profound acts of kindness.
Bugs That Rule the World 4-PART SERIES - Wednesday, May 7 - 28 at 9PM
Explore the fascinating world of bugs, their beauty, and ecological importance. From pollinators and insect predators to the clean-up crews purifying our planet, scientists examine the decline of these essential yet least appreciated creatures.
National Memorial Day Concert 2025 - Sunday, May 25 at 7PM For 36 years, this multi-award-winning television event, featuring uplifting musical performances, documentary footage and dramatic readings, has become an American tradition and is one of PBS’ highest-rated programs. On the broadcast, celebrities share real-life stories spanning the broad history of our nation’s military conflicts, award winning musicians perform songs in tribute to our country’s true heroes and the finest performers from the United States premier military choirs and ensembles are featured. Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise return once again to host this solemn and reflective event. Encore follows immediately after.