Working with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the seven PBS stations across Pennsylvania joined together to create Your Learning Neighborhood, your connection to thousands of hours of education and entertaining videos, activities, lessons, and games to support you. You can find out more at pennsylvaniapbs.org, in addition to our resources below.
Teachers, parents and caregivers: please explore! We are in this #TogetherPennsylvania.
Over 10 sessions you can help your child learn new vocabulary and inspire a love of reading book using the Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program. Each session provides plans, book suggestions, and activities designed around a set of new vocabulary words to explore.
When is a liquid not always a liquid and a solid not always a solid?
When it’s “Oobleck”! Explore Non-Newtonian fluids – solutions that change their state of matter under pressure! It’s easy to make and super fun to play with. Try it!
Continue your adventures all year round by traveling to continents around the world and expeditions right in your backyard.
Watch the PBS KIDS livestream.
Find games and activities from all of your favorite PBS KIDS shows including Xavier Riddle, Hero Elementary, Daniel Tiger, and more!
Turns out reading isn’t just about getting a good story! Margaret explains the benefits of reading, including increased vocabulary and empathy. Watch the video together and then discuss using the included discussion questions.
How do you drop an egg without breaking it? NASA faced a huge challenge when they safely landed the Mars Exploration Rovers on the surface of Mars. Can you design a capsule that would protect a raw egg dropped from several stories to the ground? Try it!
WPSU presents virtual field trips of the Centre Country Recycling and Refuse Authority and Fort Roberdeau with more to come!
These educational videos, suited for classroom and community viewing, feature Penn State Humphrey Fellows talking about their home country, its culture, history, and people.
What is Afrofuturism and what is its place in Black storytelling? Learn how Afrofuturism is more than just “science fiction plus Africa” and the roots of this important genre in this video from the digital series It’s Lit.
Pull back vehicles use springs to store energy. When the vehicle is released, the energy stored in the spring moves the vehicle forward. Can you make any toy vehicle into a pull back vehicle?
Myles Bess takes viewers along on his journey to cut through the hype surrounding controversial topics in the news to find out what’s really going on.
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)
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)
Take on the role of cryptologists to decode clues using pre-algebraic substitution and order of operation. (Best for Grades 8 – 12)
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)
Find parenting tips, hands-on activities, games, and apps for grades PreK-3 to help you raise kind, curious, and resilient children.
Hundreds of multi-media tools to help kids and families enrich and expand their knowledge during the early years of birth through six.
A growing list of resources from PBS and trusted partners, to use as tools to support anti-racist learning and growth. Free and open for all. (pdf)
Sonia Manzano, known as Maria on Sesame Street, will speak about how parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and those working with children can learn how to talk to kids about race.
Explore natural phenomena and scientific practices with videos, lesson plans, and interactive tools.
Explore the past and learn about the present with resources on government, history, economics, and more.
Bring math concepts to life through interactive games, animations and engaging media resources.
Discover resources and projects that connect students to engineering design practices and future careers.
Discover resources that provide essential lessons on physical, mental, and emotional health.
Bring dance, music, theater, and visual art into your classroom with these standards-aligned resources.
Bring world languages and cultures into your classroom with resources on Spanish, French, and more.
