KQED Curriculum Bank
Search or browse KQED Education Network's library of lesson plans, educator guides and student activities inspired by programming from KQED television, radio and interactive.
Trainings and Events
Find out about and sign up for trainings and events to enhance your professional practice.
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Digital Media Center
Welcome to KQED's Digital Media Center, the place to explore, create and showcase media for and by the community. KQED strives to engage you in the media production process with community and educator trainings, tools, content, and outreach. As part of our community, we hope you will help us build this innovative and creative Digital Media Center. This space will grow and change with our collective creativity.
As part of Frontline's exploration into this digital nation of ours, youth and youth leaders talk about cellphone use and non-use in their schools.
Media Literacy
Foster independent thinking and 21st century literacy skills with KQED Media Literacy resources. The ability to think critically about the powerful images, words, sounds, and messages that saturate contemporary culture increases students' chance of success in and outside of the classroom.
KQED works closely with the national Alliance for a Media Literate America to provide essential media resources for educators across disciplines. Through tools, workshops, and in-class materials and programs, you can encourage your students to ask key questions about who creates media messages, why? and to what effect.
Digital Storytelling
Help students of all ages find, tell, create, and publish the stories of their lives with Digital Storytelling activities. Through hands-on training in multimedia production and story theory, educators and community members can guide the creation of compelling and authentic digital stories within a learning environment.
Digital stories can lead students and community members to discover first-hand how narrative education can provide knowledge and inspiration. By creating their own media projects, storytellers can also develop important critical thinking skills that help them interpret 21st century culture.
Teachers' Domain
Featuring public television content, Teachers' Domain provides multimedia classroom resources and professional development courses to K-12 educators. KQED contributes to the collection of resources within the archive with content from KQED programs that focus on local topics related to science, the environment and nature. Teachers' Domain is a searchable database of free, high-quality multimedia content available to stream, download, share and remix.
The resources found in Teachers' Domain include video and audio clips, interactive features, images, and documents prepared from the best of PBS programs and universities across the country. You will also find accompanying explanatory background articles and media-rich lesson plans - all correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
Blog: media.infusion @ PBS Teachers
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Digital Geography in Daily Lessons? It?s So Easy!
By Janet English Let your imagination go wild! Try this little exercise to see how easy it is to incorporate geography into your daily lessons.... - Go to Google.com - Click on MAPS in the upper left hand corner. (A picture of the United States should appear on your screen.) - Drag the little orange person onto the map and watch the map turn blue. (Everything colored blue has been photographed at street view ? in 360 degrees.) - Type in your school?s address (or...
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Also on KQED.org this week ...
Women's History Month
KQED celebrates Women's History Month in March. Download a resource guide listing television and radio programs, along with listings of community resources.
Changing Gears
A new blog exploring the future of manufacturing jobs in California, produced by The California Report.
