Educators

PBS KIDS offers this FREE special collection of flexible self-paced learning to help inspire teachers and provide support for the classroom. Choose from several learning experiences designed to spark new ideas and expand your skill set—you may also be able to earn between one to three credit hours.

Teaching Tips, developed by the Boston University School of Education, enable teachers to successfully integrate PBS KIDS online games into your classroom curricula to enhance children’s early math and literacy development. The Teaching Tips provide step-by-step lessons for using educational media to enhance standards-based teaching and learning.

From the unique Nebraska Unicameral, to the branches of Federal government, to the process of how an idea becomes a law through the legislative process, Civics 101 is a video collection produced to remind viewers how our government foundations came to be and how they continue to shape the operation of local and national government.

Learn more about the art, architecture and history of the Nebraska State Capitol in these virtual lessons inspired by the building.

Beyond the Baton is a project designed to make classical music more accessible and to provide music educators interactive tools to inspire and train young artists.

"Prairie Portrait" and "Celebrating Nebraska Pollinators" are complementary lessons for 2nd to 5th graders about how bees use their external and internal organs to survive.

Agriculture accounts for 70% of the ground water consumption. This raises the concern of how long can the ground water supply sustain the demand from agriculture and communities?

Paleo Sleuths helps you dig deeper into the Great Plain's history of paleontologists, pre-historic animals, and Nebraska fossil finds. There's also educational resources that include 3D models and lesson plans. As well as the Paleo Sleuths documentary!

Welcome students, teachers, and history buffs of all ages! Nebraska Studies puts the history of the state at your fingertips, from its very beginning to the 21st century. On this site, you can meet the people and explore the events that have shaped this state, through archival photos, historic documents, personal letters, special video segments, informative maps, supplemental activities, pertinent lessons, and much more.

The interactive “Nebraska Virtual Capitol” website is a resource for students and visitors of all ages, both here in Nebraska and around the world. Young and old can discover more about Nebraska; learn about the history, arts and architecture of the building that serves as the heart of our state government and the Governor’s mansion.

This curriculum will allow Native and non-Native youth to respond to the question: “What is the Meaning of Home?” through carefully crafted media responses.

Engage students in history through the life and change-making of Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915).

Nebraska Public Media and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers like you.

Projects, lesson plans, storytelling resources and tutorials just for you. StoryMaker is a powerful learning platform developed by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs to build the next generation of media creators.