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Onsite Professional Learning: STEM
GPB Education offers customized, no-cost professional learning sessions and workshops at your request and convenience. Live sessions can be held either virtually or onsite at your location.
Are you interested in free professional learning support at your school or district? Request a session or workshop via the link below:
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Inspiring Early Learning STEM Exploration and Creativity With PBS Kids
Grade Level: PK-3
PBS Kids programming engages preschool and lower elementary aged children with STEM-inspired content that invites them to further explore their environment and grow in the four key areas of childhood development – cognitive, social, emotional, and physical. Characters like Ruff Ruffman and Sid the Science Kid encourage curiosity about the natural and physical sciences, while Peg + Cat and Cyberchase offer opportunities to use math in application with problem-solving skills. Join GPB Education in an exploration through the enchanting world of PBS Kids, where participants will learn about many of the free digital resources available for STEM learning and output, engage in Play and Learn Science activities, and experience lifelong learning with our best friends from PBS.
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Digital Media Integration Strategies for STEAM Exploration
Grade Level: K-12
Teachers are always looking for creative ways to use digital media in their unique classroom settings. Georgia Public Broadcasting's education team researches the latest and greatest free digital learning tools and strategies, and provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating videos, images, audio files, and more into your curricula. In this hands-on, interactive workshop, teachers will model several of our favorite differentiated teaching strategies for STEAM instruction and will walk away with engaging integration tools they can begin using immediately!
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Engineering Your Classroom STEMpire With GPB
Grade Level: K-12
Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for an exploration of thousands of digital learning resources, including an introduction to PBS LearningMedia's STEM collection and the construction of your own STEM engineering project. Learn ways to engage your students with an inquiry learning approach to STEM education and encourage hands-on learning with the array of online content and tools available to you at no cost through GPB Education.
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The Unbearable Relevance of STEM
Grade Level: 6-12
Directly addressing modern social issues that students care about can stimulate provocative conversations about the roles of research and science in society. With more than 400 STEM resources from collections like Above the Noise, It’s Okay to be Smart, Braincraft, and the Origin of Everything, participants will learn to navigate the most engaging content in the PBS universe while connecting standards from the classroom with the world beyond.
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Exploring GPB Education's Multimodal Content for Encouraging Differentiated Learning in STEM
Grade Level: K-12
Through Georgia Public Broadcasting¹s partnership with PBS LearningMedia, all Georgia educators and students have free access to an expansive digital library of various content types, including images, audio, video, text, interactives, and more. These multimodal resources provide diverse representations of the information, allowing educators to assign targeted content to whole groups or individual students depending on learning style, degree of readiness, and interest. Accessibility and literacy-promoting features such as closed captioning, text-to-speech, and Google translate provide further options for enhancing learning in every student. Join GPB in an exploration of PBS LearningMedia as a supportive resource for differentiated STEM learning and instruction in your own school setting.
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Resources for Picking Up STEAM in Mathematics Instruction
Grade Level: K-12
Mathematics is the common connector for all STEAM disciplines, from the measurements of Science through the patterns and shapes of Art. It is a universal language across all cultures and a major component in all creative endeavors. Join GPB Education for an exploratory overview of our free digital STEAM resources with an emphasis on engaging math education and real-world math connections.
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Resources for Strengthening Engineering and Design Thinking
Grade Level: 3-12
Utilizing PBS LearningMedia's engaging activities, participants will become familiar with collections from PBS's hit shows which 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.
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The STEMpire Strikes Back
Grade Level: K-12
Join Georgia Public Broadcasting Education on a journey through a digital learning galaxy close, close to you - the PBS LearningMedia STEM collection. ZOOM through the solar sySTEM with Physics Girl and The Design Squad, join NASA for STEM in 30, work with NOVA to build your star into a black hole, and construct your own STEM Alive engineering project. The sky is never the limit with an array of free digital resources and professional development tools available to you through GPB.
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Hands-On STEM Resources for Maker Education
Grade Level: 5-12
Utilizing PBS LearningMedia's engaging activities, participants will become familiar with collections from PBS's hit shows which allow students to build their design and iteration skills, while investigating and solving problems. All of these resources are bookended with digitally integrated instructional strategies.
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Building an Interdisciplinary STEAMystery with GPB’s Free Digital Resources
Grade Level: 6-12
Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for a hands-on inquiry workshop that begins with an intriguing STEAMystery and ends with exciting STEAM career ideas! Participants will use the scientific method and an active imagination to analyze a puzzling story, explore connections in math, science, literature, and social studies via GPB’s quality online content, create an engineering design process output, and consider associated STEAM career options. Walk away with engaging teaching strategies and easily accessible resources that can be applied immediately in your own school setting.
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GPB's Digital Integration Studio for Business and Technology Instruction
Grade Level: 6-12
Georgia Public Broadcasting's education team researches the latest and greatest free digital learning tools and strategies, and provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating videos, images, whole lesson plans, assessments, and more into your curricula. In this hands-on, interactive session, teachers will model several of our favorite teaching strategies around GPB's educationally relevant business and technology content. Participants will walk away with engaging integration tools they can begin using immediately in their own classrooms!
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Building a 21st Century Learning Framework for STEM and CTAE
Grade Level: 6-12
STEM is more than Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. STEM asks students to consider deep, real-world questions and collaborate with others to arrive at meaningful conclusions. Learning through interdisciplinary units of study challenges students and helps them develop the relevant skills for evolving and expanding careers. Join GPB Education as we explore our digital resources and instructional strategies that support STEM education and the P21 framework. Participants will come away with an expanded digital toolbox for better illustrating the knowledge their students need to thrive in the workplace and as citizens.
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Igniting Passions for Data and Computer Science
Grade Level: 6-12
Let's take the boredom out of "running the numbers." Utilizing partnerships with some of the biggest names in data analytics, GPB offers participants lessons, activities, and scenario-based career models to excite student passions for understanding and recognizing patterns in the challenges they face, as well as making predictions and solving real-world problems.
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Journey to GPB’s Gasha Go Gaming World for Early Childhood Computer Science
Grade Level: PK-3
We have a BIG problem. We need to make as many toys and stuffed animals as we can to fill up the gashapon machines before the kids arrive. It’s going to be a busy day at the arcade!
GPB’s GASHA Go World computer science education program for children in grades K-2 supports literacy as well as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) objectives by encouraging critical thinking, exploration, and discovery. Through inquiry and game-based learning, students build number sense and develop foundational computer science skills while exploring new approaches to problem solving that harness the power of computational thinking. By applying computer science as a tool for learning and expression, students set themselves up to understand and confidently engage in a world that is increasingly influenced by technology.
Join GPB Education and our busy friends the Gashlings as we use our communication, mathematics, and problem-solving skills to keep Gasha Go World running smoothly!
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Career Track to the Future: Guiding and Inspiring With GPB’s Free Career Development Resources
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB Education for an exploration of the many free online career development resources created and curated specifically for Georgia educators and students. Participants will be introduced to the hundreds of career information resources available through PBS LearningMedia and will journey via GPB's Fast Forward video series through our state’s unique STEAM and CTAE career opportunities. We will pair a few examples from these comprehensive collections with hands-on teaching strategies that will help engage and inspire your students.
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You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: Expanding Student Horizons With GPB’s STEM Career Resources
Grade Level: 6-12
Join GPB in a hands-on exploration of our extensive STEM career resources, and practice innovative ways to educate and inspire your students about the many STEMazing opportunities available in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Learn about job opportunities right here in our state through GPB's Fast Forward series, and continue expanding their horizons through PBS LearningMedia Quest Career Spotlights. With thousands of free digital STEM resources available from GPB Education, your students can be anything they see.
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Reality Checkmate: Expanding Student Horizons With GPB’s AR and VR Learning Journeys
Grade Level: 6-12
Sit back and hold on tight as we take a virtual learning journey to places normally out of reach, exploring the inspiring new augmented and virtual reality learning resources created by GPB Education and PBS LearningMedia. Unstrap and dive right in as we model ideas for how virtual reality expansions can pair inspiring content with meaningful learning activities and engage students in mastering knowledge and skills that are relevant to real-world experiences.
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Into the Woods: Strengthening Scientific Understanding Through Interactive Literacy With Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey
Grade Level: 3-12
Take your students on a virtual journey through the working forests of Georgia to learn about forest ecosystems, food webs and life cycles, as well as forestry management processes, employability skills, and career opportunities. Key concepts are covered through writing prompts, STEAM challenges, and interactive elements that can help integrate active learning strategies, real-world literacy, critical thinking practices, and environmental advocacy into your standards-aligned lesson plans. Explore this engaging learning landscape with GPB as we set out together on a virtual walk into the woods!
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Discovering Georgia Through GPB's Virtual Learning Journeys for Water & Forests
Grade Level: 3-12
Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for a captivating exploration of Georgia's water and forest resources, leveraging GPB's cutting-edge virtual learning journeys.
The Georgia Water Virtual Learning Journey offers an immersive experience, guiding students through the intricate journey of water from its sources to treatment facilities while delving into the impact of weather phenomena on Georgia's water resources. Participants will gain insights into conservation practices and career pathways within the water industry.
Complementing this, the Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey provides a dynamic excursion into the heart of Georgia's working forests. Through vivid multimedia presentations, participants will unravel the complexities of forest ecosystems, including food webs, life cycles, and forestry management processes. Moreover, educators will explore diverse career opportunities within forestry, enriching their understanding of potential pathways for their students.
Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of Georgia's water and forest ecosystems while discovering innovative approaches to engage your students in environmental education.
Join us in empowering the next generation of environmental stewards through immersive learning experiences!
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Interactive Adventures in STEAM: Leveraging GPB's Live Explorations for K-5 Informal Learning
Grade Level: K-5
Join GPB Education for an inspiring professional learning session tailored for K-5 STEAM teachers, where we'll unlock the potential of GPB's Emmy Award-winning Live Explorations. With these free, fun resources, you can take your students on a variety of immersive adventures across Georgia without leaving your classroom – no permission slips required!
In this session, we will explore how to seamlessly integrate GPB’s engaging live explorations into your curriculum. From our journey into the enchanting underwater world of Gray's Reef to our electrifying exploration of the world of electricity, GPB Education brings real-time STEAM connections to elementary learners. Dive into the mysteries of the Okefenokee Swamp, emphasize the importance of water conservation and recycling, delve into the science of sound, understand the crucial role of pollinators, explore the creative opportunities at the Georgia Tech Flowers Invention Studio, and discover the innovative aspects of Georgia’s cotton and peanut crops. These explorations provide a diverse range of experiences and subjects designed to ignite student interest and align with your curriculum needs.
Learn how to create dynamic lessons that captivate young minds, nurture their love for STEAM, and prepare them for real-world problem-solving across this wide spectrum of topics. Leave with a toolkit of practical strategies and best practices to ensure your students are eager to explore and learn in the most interactive way possible. Join us on this educational adventure and help your students connect with their home state in a whole new way!
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It's Alive! Creating an Interdisciplinary STEAMystery With GPB
Grade Level: 6-12
Join Georgia Public Broadcasting for a hands-on inquiry workshop that begins with an intriguing STEAMystery and ends with exciting STEAM career ideas! Participants will use the scientific method and an active imagination to analyze a puzzling story, explore connections in math, science, literature, and social studies via GPB’s quality online content, create an engineering design process output, and consider associated STEAM career options. Walk away with engaging teaching strategies and easily accessible resources that can be applied immediately in your own school setting.
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STEM by the Book: Novel Problem Solving Through Novel Engineering
Grade Level: K-12
Happily Ever After rarely comes easily in any great read. But every journey taken - with a beloved or a despised character, to previously unknown places, through harrowing misadventures and inspiring life lessons - teaches us something new about ourselves and our world. Join GPB as we identify problems and design solutions within the context of great literary STEM challenges. With hundreds of digital stories available to you at no cost through GPB Education, the Engineering Design Process will never be a more open book!
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Phenomenal Social Studies: Building STEM Skills by Exploring the Captivating and Messy History of Innovation
Grade Level: 3-12
Social studies are often called social sciences because they invite us to use scientific approaches as we examine, analyze, elucidate, and apply our expanding knowledge of the human condition to our personal lives and our greater roles in the community. These scientific approaches include STEM skills like problem-solving, creativity, engineering-design processing, critical thinking, and collaboration; all of which can help us understand how important lessons from our past can promote us into a brighter collective future.
In this session, participants will explore how inspiring innovators from history used their STEM skills to identify a problem of the time, collaborate with peers to creatively envision a potential solution, persevere through the engineering-design process, and deliver an extraordinary output that changed our society. We will spotlight free PBS LearningMedia collections and teacher resources from Benjamin Franklin: A Film by Ken Burns, Thomas Edison: American Experience, George Washington Carver: An Uncommon Life, and Hedy Lamarr: American Masters.
Join GPB Education on this interdisciplinary journey into the intrinsically messy reality of historical innovation and learn how making mistakes and failing forward can help us all continue working together towards an ever-advancing society.
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GPB Education to the Nth Power: Virtual STEAM Explorations With NASA, NOVA, Nature
Grade Level: K-12
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.
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STEAM Avengers: Assembling Superpowered Learning for Afterschool Program Success
Grade Level: 3-12
Join the GPB Education Avengers to discover a diverse array of resources designed to ignite curiosity and foster critical thinking through hands-on and virtual learning experiences! Using these free, fun resources, students will make STEAM-based connections with real-world concepts to help them become stronger problem solvers and innovative thinkers. With GPB resources aligned to state standards, students in afterschool programs can have fun while supporting their academic growth in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. Attendees will walk away with “assembled” knowledge of resources they can use right away!
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Fly Me to the Moon! Inspiring Students to Pursue STEM Careers with GPB/PBS Learning Media
Grade Level: 6-12
The recent announcement of the Artemis II Crew provides an opportunity for teachers to use this real-life event to inspire student interest to pursue careers in STEM. Among the crew are three pilots and an engineer all of whom will circle the moon in 2024. These astronauts are proof that a STEM career can be challenging, exciting, rewarding, and on the cutting edge of our future. In this interactive workshop, participants will be shown digital resources from GPB and PBS that spark creativity, get students interested in real-world events through project-based learning, and generate excitement about what the future may hold for STEM careers.
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Who are You? Learning Forensics With PBS Learning Media
Grade Level: 6-12
Forensic science is one of the fastest-growing career choices with a projected growth of 16% over the next ten years (Indeed.com). This rewarding career applies the love of science to the process of finding the truth and seeking justice in legal proceedings. In this workshop, participants will discover lesson plans and digital resources (with teacher support materials) from PBS Learning Media that students can use to investigate forensic science careers such as fingerprint technician, DNA analyst, evidence technician, forensic science technician, criminalist, and others.
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STEMonstration at Sea: Save the Aquanaut!
Grade Level: 3-12
Your STEAM students haven't been on a field trip in ages and they've had enough! They're taking extreme measures to "plan and carry out an investigation to predict and observe whether objects, based on their physical attributes, will sink or float" and heading out to sea. Their submersible is almost ready, but they haven't started planning their dive suits and you're a little worried that they don't fully understand the concept of buoyancy. Join GPB Education and an egg-cellent volunteer for a STEMonstration that will float your boat and save the aquanaut!
Activity instructions and materials list available at https://bit.ly/3e9WqRt
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Zipping Through a STEMonstration
Grade Level: 3-12
Ever wonder how a zip line works? Wonder no more! In our first STEMonstration we'll investigate gravity, friction, and the physics behind launched objects. Using simple materials GPB educators will build and test a way to move a small ball down a zip line string in less than four seconds. Plus, you might even find a job you like in the mountains of north Georgia.
Activity instructions and materials list available at http://bit.ly/2O8d6xK
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This STEMonstration is On Target!
Grade Level: 3-12
How do those engineers get the Mars Rover to go all the way into space and remotely conduct tasks? In this STEMonstration we'll continue to investigate gravity, friction, and the physics behind launched objects, but make it a whole lot more challenging! Using simple materials GPB educators will build and test a way to move a small ball down a zip line string in less than four seconds AND release that ball onto a target.
Activity instructions and materials list available at https://bit.ly/3nq3j7Y
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STEMonstration at Sea: Save the Taternaut!
Grade Level: 3-12
How do those engineers get the Mars Rover to go all the way into space and remotely conduct tasks? In this STEMonstration we'll continue to investigate gravity, friction, and the physics behind launched objects, but make it a whole lot more challenging! Using simple materials GPB educators will build and test a way to move a small ball down a zip line string in less than four seconds AND release that ball onto a target.
Activity instructions and materials list available here: bit.ly/3l8hWHK
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STEMonstration in Living Color!
Grade Level: 3-12
Can you answer the question, "What is Color?" Join GPB Education and Physics Girl on a STEMonstration into how we perceive light waves and build your own STEM Alive spectroscope out of common household items so that everything you see is coming up rainbows!
Activity instructions and materials list available here: bit.ly/3vKIAf1