Join GPB’s education outreach team for a primer on incorporating our Active Learning resources into the virtual environment. We will choose four complex active learning approaches and highlight how to utilize them around any theme - in this case, the 3Rs!
Game-based learning is a tried-and-true educational approach, made more effective by the growing availability of interactive digital content. In this workshop, participants will become familiar with virtual and game-based learning resources created by GPB Education and distributed through our streaming partnership with PBS LearningMedia. Explore ideas for how virtual and game-based approaches can pair meaningful learning activities with appropriate assessment challenges, and enable students to enthusiastically engage in mastering knowledge and skills that are relevant to real-world experiences.
Participants will become familiar with the active-learning U.S history resources created by GPB Education while modeling ideas for how virtual reality and game-based learning can pair engaging activities with appropriate assessment challenges and enable students to master knowledge and literacy skills that are relevant to real-world experiences.
Education at GPB | Invites you to accompany | Our professional learning reverie | On poetry and symmetry | Both Rhyme and Reason | ‘Tis the season | For Math Poetry Month! Join us for an exploration of free PBS LearningMedia resources that pair poems and patterns for unique ways to inspire mathematically creative thinking in your students!
Join GPB education outreach team for a webinar that's really upbeat! We'll explore our comprehensive free digital content, including streaming video and standards-based lesson plans, plus thousands of multimodal learning resources and tools available to all Georgia students and teachers through PBS LearningMedia.
Join GPB education for an exploratory overview of our comprehensive Visual Arts content including online courses, career resources, lesson plans, engaging videos, and instructional strategies that are available at no cost to all Georgia students and teachers through PBS LearningMedia.
Utilizing engaging activities from PBS LearningMedia, participants will become familiar with collections from PBS hit shows that allow students to build their design and iteration skills while investigating and solving problems in engineering and aerospace. All of these resources are bookended with digitally integrated instructional strategies.
Utilizing PBS LearningMedia Georgia Public Broadcasting provides educators with access to free educational platforms that host active and engaging programs, lessons, and media to get kids moving and considering their health and wellness. Participants will become familiar with our partner platforms and how to easily locate and implement activities that boost students’ physical activity as well as awareness about their health.
By coordinating with families, relying on routines, keeping things simple, focusing on formative assessments, and adapting hands-on labs, teachers can approach distance learning in a way that engages and inspires students in science without overwhelming them or their caregivers. Join GPB Education as we explore our many free online resources that support these five flexible strategies for stimulating science learning in a virtual and/or hybrid environment.
In a follow-up Georgia Studies session, GPB’s education outreach team will explore the in-depth resources available for teaching Geography. Join us to learn about the connections between lessons built into our textbook, experiences available in our virtual learning journeys, online standards-based assessments, document-based questions and more!
The Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) provide a consistent framework to prepare students for success in college and/or the 21st century workplace. For more information go to www.georgiastandards.org.
GPB is traveling all over Georgia to bring our state's rich history and culture to teachers and students. Our 34 virtual learning field trips align with the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) for social studies, as well as the content from GPB’s Georgia Studies digital textbook and Georgia Race Through Time game. You can also access the iPad version by downloading the free GPB Education app on iTunes. Each field trip brings locations to life with interviews, 360-degree panoramic photography, interactive elements, videos, user guide, and 5E lesson plans!
Join GPB Education on a STEM journey into and out of this world with our triple threat PBS partners NASA, NOVA, and Nature. Utilizing resources from these three digital educational series, participants will explore how to connect their students to compelling, real-world STEAM stories through free videos, interactive tools, and lesson planning resources. The NOVA, Nature, and NASA collections on PBS LearningMedia contain more than 1500 resources that educators can use to spark and enrich student knowledge through STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) education.
Watch video lessons from Georgia's teachers who are using innovative strategies to advance student achievement. The Innovation in Teaching Competition has recognized 36 educators from across Georgia since 2013.
GPB presents a brief introduction to the Georgia Studies digital textbook, accessible for all platforms and devices. The content in the textbook is presented digitally with interactive capabilities and multimedia enhancements and is aligned to the most recent Georgia Standards of Excellence for 8th grade social studies. Participants will learn how to access and use this creative, cutting-edge platform that will change the way students and teachers experience Georgia history.
Content experts at the Georgia Department of Education have developed learning plans for teachers and parents. The plans are easy-to-use and include both “plugged and unplugged” activities.
