How do plants “drink” water?
How do plants get water from the soil into the parts they need?
Ninja Escape
Figure out an equation given a set of coordinates and identify the graphs of those functions with this interactive. (Best for Grades 9 – 12)
What are the Odds? And What are the Chances?
These flexible interactives provide opportunities to practice identifying simple, compound, and/or dependent probabilities using answers in the form of fractions, percentages, and/or decimals. (Best for Grades 9 – 12)
Cryptology Files
Take on the role of cryptologists to decode clues using pre-algebraic substitution and order of operation. (Best for Grades 8 – 12)
The Big Sale
Solve unit rate problems to determine the best deal per ounce of grocery items. (Best for Grades 6 – 9)
The Hamburger Reading Game
Practice attentive reading by choosing the main idea – or “meat” of the story – from a passage of text. Drag the main ideas to the center of your hamburger and create a juicy treat! (Best for Grades 2 – 3)
The Detective’s Notebook
You get to be a detective! Sort through clues in a story to predict what will happen next. (Best for Grades 3 – 6)
The Questioning Cube
Practice reading comprehension by asking questions about short stories and passages. (Best for Grades 2 – 5).
Making Reading Connections
Join a virtual class and help the kids make connections between what they are reading and what they are learning. (Best for Grades 2 – 5)
Fridge Magnet Game
Who doesn’t love making sentences with magnets on a fridge? In this game you can make virtual sentences, practicing identifying confusing words and replacing them with words that make sense. (Best for Grades 2 – 3)
Train Game
This train cannot travel down an uncompleted track! Choose the correct words to complete the sentence and get the train moving. (Best for Grades 2 – 3)
Word Machine
By matching sounds to letters, your child can make the Word Machine function in this WPSU created language arts game. (Best for Grades K – 2)
Learning At Home
As teachers, students, and families deal with school closures, WPSU and PBS have come together to curate a special collection of educational resources. Whether you are a caregiver working with children or an educator planning distance learning, you’ll find videos, lesson plans, and activities that support learning at home.
Students in Pre-K through 12th grade can now access free, educational PBS daytime programming designated for each grade level weekdays through the following channels:
| WPSU Kids 24/7 Grades PreK-3  |
WPSU World Grades 6-12 from Noon-6pm  |
| WPSU-HD Grades PreK-12  |
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| • Daily Learning Activities that go with the HD channel | |
Resilience and Caring for Each Other
- Sesame Street Caring for Each Other: content and resources from Sesame Workshop that you can use with your family to offer comfort and spark playful learning activities
- Meet the Helpers: resources to talk to children about what is happening, and empower them to be helpers to keep each other healthy.
- Arthur Family Health – Resilience: resources, activities, and videos from Arthur to help you and your child cope and build resilience.
Family Learning
Educational TV Programming
- WPSU-HD: Tune-in to educational programming each weekday, from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- WPSU-HD live stream: Watch WPSU programming on computers and mobile devices.
- WPSU Kids stream: WPSU offers a 24-hour stream of PBS KIDS programming that can be watched on a computer or through the WPSU app.
- Check the schedule for information about programs and times.
Resources for Grown-Ups:
- PBS Parents Website: offers information, activities, and tips for parents, including “How to talk to your kids about coronavirus“
- Sign up for PBS KIDS’ new daily newsletter for activities and tips you can use to play and learn together at home.
- Science-U @ Home: Created by WPSU, Science-U@Home offers easy to advanced at-home science activities you can do with materials you have at home. Each experiment includes the scientific ideas behind the experiment along with questions to further your child’s scientific thinking.
Educational Games:
- PBS KIDS Apps & More: View all available PBS games, podcasts, albums, and e-books.
Math and reading games created by WPSU
- Language Arts:
- Word Machine: practice letter sounds and make words (Grades K-3)
- Train Game: helps students develop synthesis skills by asking them to group words together to form sentences. (Grades K-3)
- Fridge Game: read sentences and find the error, requires students to identify confusing words (by monitoring) and to replace them with words from an alternate word pool that make sense in the sentence (clarifying). (Grades K-3)
- Making Connections: gives students practice in making mental connections between the text and things the reader already knows. These connections can include things readers have read (text-to-text), things they’ve seen or heard (text-to-world), and things they’ve done (text-to-self). (Grades K-3)
- Questioning Cube: read a short story and answer a question, students practice asking questions about short stories or passages of expository prose (Grades K-5)
- Detective’s Notebook: you are a detective, look at the clues in a story to predict what will happen next. (Grades K-3)
- Hamburger Game: Helps students practice attentive reading by choosing the main idea—or “meat”—from a passage of text and dragging it to the center of a sandwich. (Grades K-5)
- Math:
- Big Sale: solve unit rate problems to determine the best deal per ounce of grocery items. (Grades 6-8)
- Cryptography Files: take on the role of cryptologists to decode clues using pre-algebraic substitution and order of operation (Grades 6-8)
- What Are The Odds?: answer probability questions. (Grades 6-8)
- What Are The Chances?: This flexible interactive provides opportunities to practice identifying simple, compound, and/or dependent probabilities using answers in the form of fractions, percentages, and/or decimals. (Grades 7-12)
- Ninja Escape: Figure out an equation given a set of coordinates and identify the graphs of those functions with this interactive. (Grades 8-9)
Educator Resources
PBS LearningMedia offers standards-aligned educational material and curriculum that can be used by teachers and parents.
Featured PBS LearningMedia resources: