WMHT Resources for Teachers and Educators
WMHT can be a dynamic asset in your classroom, both via our on-air programs and via our online resources. Check our Educator Resources page regularly, as we continue to offer teachers new opportunities for enriching students' education. While you're here, see this month's teacher e-newsletter for more information.
Dinosaur Train: Free Educator Toolkit
The Dinosaur Train Educator Toolkit is perfect for teaching paleontology, life science and natural history to preschoolers. Each toolkit contains episode clips, music videos, lyric sheets, and PreK - Kindergarten appropriate lesson plans from the show. On the same form, you can sign up to receive a Dinosaur Train Nature Tracker poster!
2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge
Inspired by the 'Educate to Innovate Campaign,' President Obama’s initiative to promote a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is a multi-year game design competition whose goal is to motivate interest in STEM learning among America’s youth by tapping into students’ natural passion for playing and making video games. Click here for more information on the National STEM Video Game Challenge.
2011 Games in Education
The 2011 Games in Education Symposium was a huge success. Resources from the event will be available soon!
Get Involved: The American Graduate Project
For middle school and high school teachers, WMHT: American Graduate is a community engagement project that is designed to drive widespread awareness in the community of the causes and ramifications of high dropout rate. The project also seeks to mobilize community members to actively support at-risk students and to promote or provide pathways to existing community resources. Contact us at education@wmht.org to learn more about how you and your students can be a part of the project. This local initiative is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through the National Center for Media Engagement.
Capital Region Youth Voices
Learn more about WMHT's Youth Media Project with the New York Media Alliance and Tech Valley High School, watch student films and interviews or find classroom resources at wmht.org/youthvoices.
Bring Current Events & Global Issues Into the Classroom
'Assignment: The World' is a weekly video program for classrooms (3rd-8th grade) to learn about current events and global issues. It airs on Saturdays at 6 a.m. on WMHT-TV and is available online. Send an e-mail to education@wmht.org for the password.
Can Homework Hotline Help Your Students?
Homework Hotline is a live educational television show that airs Mon.-Thurs. at 5:30 p.m. on WMHT-TV. Students in grades 4-12 can Dial-a-Teacher for help by calling 1-888-986-2345 on those same days from 4-7 p.m. Questions in math, science, social studies, English and language arts welcomed.
Mission US: A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
Take young learners on a virtual adventure into American History with Mission US, a free, new interactive adventure game for grades 5-8.
WMHT Hosts Student Art Exhibit
VITAL New York 2.0 Coming Soon
VITAL NEW YORK is a free online library of digital media resources for the K-12 classroom presented by Thirteen/WNET. Featuring dynamic public television video and interactive content, this growing collection has over 60,000 registered New York users and is fully-aligned to the New York State Learning Standards.
New York State's public television stations are pleased to announce that over the coming months, VITAL NY will be going through a major upgrade in service and content that will benefit all users. This '2.0' version of VITAL NY will be powered by PBS Learning Media, a new national portal for public broadcasting content, yielding a dynamic new combination of all of the high quality multimedia resources and features you already utilize on VITAL, with an exciting new online environment and twice as much content. Click here for more info.
Electronic Field Trips
Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips
'The War of 1812' will air on WMHT-TV on Thurs., Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. A generation after the Revolution, Americans were once again plunged into war with Great Britain. Why? Join Henry Clay, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, James Madison, and others as they struggle to determine what course the United States will take. A preview of the 2011-12 season is available here. Schools registered with Colonial Williamsburg have the right to make a tape of the program and keep it in perpetuity. Schools not registered with Colonial Williamsburg have fair use rights—use for 10 days and must erase within 45 days. Standards Correlations are provided here.
WMHT is pleased to offer schools in our area scholarships to the 2011-12 electronic field trips. Schools awarded scholarships will receive a unique User ID/password for each trip that you are participating in via e-mail from Colonial Williamsburg. Click here for a list of what you will receive with this scholarship. Contact us for more info.
About WMHT Educational Services
WMHT works in cooperation with the eight other public television stations in New York State, the New York State Education Department, and local and regional partners such as the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), teacher centers and regional school support centers. Guidance and counsel is provided by WMHT’s Learning Services Advisory Committee, whose membership is made up of teachers, educational consultants, and other professionals working in the field.
