This student inventor is making major strides toward cleaner air for our community with a design for fashionable wristwear! 5th grade student inventor, Annie, kicks off the first episode of "Tiny Mic, Big Designs" with a wearable way to track air quality.
It's all about apples in this episode of Let's Learn GA! Learn where apples are grown in Georgia, explore some tasty recipes with apples, and create fun activities that celebrate apples.
In this integrated, seventh-grade biology unit, students learn about the concepts of active and passive transport in cells. In the first half of the unit, students conduct labs and a series of thought experiments to deeply understand diffusion, homeostasis, and osmosis.
We all want to protect Mother Nature by recycling, but it's important to recycle correctly. In this episode of Things Explained, we explore commonly accepted items for curbside recycled and items that usually end up in the landfill.
English Language Arts | Physical Health and Wellness | Professional Learning | Grades 9-12
Join GPB Education as we explore the inspiring teaching tools surrounding PBS American Portrait, a national storytelling project that invites us all to share our voices in response to a number of thought-provoking prompts.
This segment shows ways in which today’s Cherokees are transmitting the remnants of their culture to the younger generation in an attempt to preserve what is left. Cherokee cultural traditions in food preparation, language, and songs and dances are shown.
Should the Cherokee maintain their own culture resisting that of the white man, or should they give up their ways and adopt those of white settlers? They tried to adapt to white society with the ultimate result being their virtual disappearance from Georgia.
Celestine Sibley won several awards and served many humanitarian causes during her career as a journalist, columnist, and author, becoming an iconic adopted daughter of Georgia.
Herschelle Challenor, a graduate of Spelman College, describes the challenges of segregation in Atlanta during the 1950s. Claude Sitton, a reporter for the New York Times, states that Atlanta lacked the drama witnessed elsewhere because black and white leaders did not want violence.
Before the Braves professional baseball team moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966, the minor league Atlanta Crackers were the talk of the South. Crackers radio announcer Hank Morgan explains the allure of the baseball park during the time period.
Sue Ellen Mears, with the DeKalb Historical Society, comments on Atlanta's change from rural to urban through the lens of Bill Suits, owner of A to Z Salvage in Decatur, who wished to bring Rufus, his 7 month-old, 50 pound potbellied pig to work.
We’re in Augusta to learn about careers in the medical field with a visit to Augusta University! Up first we meet a doctor specializing in wilderness medicine who was actually the first person in his family to go to college. Very inspirational!