🍎 STEM resources and events, school readiness, National Poetry Month

In this issue:

Ready for School Kits
National Poetry Month
Ben Franklin & Engineering for Good
Preserving Democracy
Upcoming Events
Featured Game and App

Ready for School Kits

IdahoPTV Education has put together 700 Ready for School kits and we've started delivering them to schools around Idaho for kids starting school in 2022.

Inside the Ready for School kits:

book The Night Before Kindergarten
wipe-and-write sheets for learning letters, numbers, and shapes
tri-grip crayons
pencils
scissors
activity cards for learning shape recognition and counting
and school readiness guidelines from the Idaho Board of Education.

It's not too early to get your child ready for kindergarten!

April is National Poetry Month

Elements of Poetry, lessons for Grade 6-8, 9-12

Your Child's a Poet, and Here's How to Show it, from PBS KIDS for Parents

The Best of Shel Silverstein, from PBS KIDS for Parents

Wednesday, April 20: Ben Franklin + Citizen Science: Sharing Stories of Collective Impact . PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs is joining forces with PBS Books and SciStarter for a FREE, interactive event, to discuss Ken Burns' new documentary and the importance of STEM storytelling.

Benjamin Franklin & Engineering for Good

Think you know who Benjamin Franklin was?

The brand new Ken Burns in the Classroom collection—inspired by the new four-hour PBS documentary that premiered in April—offers you and your students an overview of his impact, legacy, and compelling, but complicated, life story.

In this specific lesson for grades 5 to 12, students participate in their own “engineering for good” design challenge after learning the science behind Benjamin Franklin's famous kite experiment. All lessons on PBS LearningMedia are always free!

IdahoPTV in Your Neighborhood

Laurie Wilmore is a Librarian in Menan, Idaho, with 19 years of library experience. She sees IdahoPTV as a necessary resource in her community.

Idaho Public Television’s Storytime in a Box program has been very successful at her library. “We have had great feedback from patrons,” says Willmore.

“Busy parents don’t have time to plan these things, but if they are planned for you it’s easier to teach at home,” she says. “It’s beneficial to the whole community because it brings families to the library, and then they take the lessons elsewhere, to scouts, to their classrooms.”