Multimedia Presentations & Television Programs
Multimedia presentations and education-oriented television programs in the classroom can provide a large amount of information in a relatively compressed period of time. The integration of audio and video makes studies more interesting, and information easier to digest. Multimedia computer systems offer presentations that integrate materials in a variety of formats, including text, graphics, animation, audio, and video. Multimedia delivery is also widely available on CD-ROMs and through the internet and online services, as well as through the more traditional television interface. To learn more about the ways that multimedia presentations and education television can be integrated into the classroom, browse the links below.
A and E Television Network: Biography
A&E offers a database of more than 20,000 short biographies, with monthly broadcast schedules, program notes, message boards, and merchandise.
A and E Television Networks: A and E Classroom
A&E offers resources for integrating its program content into elementary and secondary school curricula. Includes teacher support materials.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia: Education Television Information Guide
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's offers television schedules for schools, teacher support materials, curriculum links, and class strategies.
Big Feats Entertainment: Worldwide Wishbone Television Series and Information Guide
This literature-based television series for kids features an episode guide, broadcast schedule, cast profiles, behind-the-scenes photos and more.
British Broadcasting Corporation, United Kingdom: Learning Zone
Weekly series overviews, schedules, and highlights; listings of online courses and support materials; and videotaping tips and recommendations.
Cable in the Classroom Online: Educational Programming Information Guide
A public service provides free cable television connections and commercial-free educational programs to U.S. elementary and secondary schools.
Can Learn: Reading Rainbow
This literature-based educational television series is "designed to encourage and motivate children to read good books and visit their local libraries."
Channel 4, United Kingdom: School Educational Television and Resources Guide
Educational television series for K-12 students offers a searchable catalog of broadcasts, resources, content summaries, online guides, and more.
Children's Television Workshop: Sesame Street
An interactive storybook for preschoolers, printable activity sheets about shapes, numbers, and colors, episode guides, and video clips.
Coalition for Quality Children's Media: Kids First Information Guide
Find videotapes and CD-ROMs selected by a nationwide jury of reviewers with degrees in child development, education, or a similar field.
Connect Live: United States Department of Education Multimedia Center
This web site contains video of numerous events held by the U.S. Department of Education with brief introductions and biographical notes.
Discovery Channel Online: Discovery Channel School
Thematic curriculum resources, activity suggestions, lesson plans, audio vocabulary files, and study questions, with links to related goodies.
European Broadcasting Union: Educational Television Information Guide
Coordinating resources for educational television in Europe, the EBU has news, reports, details on available programs, and project information.
History Channel: Elementary and Secondary Classroom Programs Guide
Browse here for resources for integrating network program content into elementary and secondary school curricula, with teacher support materials.
KCTS, Seattle, Washington: Bill Nye: The Science Guy
A wacky, award-winning PBS science education television series for kids. Get video and audio clips, online activities, a reference guide and more.
KQED, San Francisco, California: Center for Education and Lifelong Learning
Program descriptions, broadcast schedules, taping rights guidelines, and relevant links, with viewing tips and media guides for parents.
Nickelodeon: Parents and Teachers Information and Resources Guide
Supporting Nickelodeon's Cable in the Classroom programming, this site provides program descriptions and schedules, teachers' guides, and more.
Public Broadcasting Service: Alan Alda: Scientific American Frontiers
From PBS and 'Scientific American', a variety of interactive, educational exercises and activities with questions on the program's featured subject.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone
PBS program on the invention and social impact of the telephone, with a biography of Bell, and interviews with some early telephone operators.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Andrew Carnegie: Richest Man in the World
Find a detailed biography of Carnegie, an essay on America during this "Era of Extremes," how Carnegie made his money and his "philanthropy."
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Elizabeth Cochrane: Around the World in 72 Days
Information for the PBS program about the trip around the world made by Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane). Includes essays and quotations.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Gold Fever
Review this PBS program about the Klondike gold rush for excerpts from prospectors' letters, what they took with them, and a teacher's guide.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Iron Road
Companion information for the PBS show about the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Historical overview, teacher's guide, and bibliography.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: A Midwife's Tale
An excellent companion site for the PBS offering, 'A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard', with excerpts from Ballard's diary, and more.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: New York Children's Aid Society: Orphan Trains
A companion site for the PBS program about the trains of orphan children sent west from New York for adoption from the 1850s to the 1920s.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Philo Farnsworth and David Sarnoff: Big Dream, Small Screen
PBS site about Philo Farnsworth and David Sarnoff, and the invention of electronic television, with a timeline of TV history, and a bibliography.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Presidents
Find a short profile of, notes on the era of, and discussion of the foreign and domestic policies of each president since Theodore Roosevelt.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Queen Liliuokalani: Hawaii's Last Queen
Companion site for the PBS documentary about Queen Liliuokalani, with a short history, her musical legacy, timeline, quiz, and bibliography.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Ric Burns: Donner Party
Site on the PBS show about the ill-fated westward expedition. Includes history, essays, interviews, a program transcript, and a bibliography.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Fascinating information from this PBS historical program about the tough people who stayed and survived the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Vietnam War
This detailed introduction to the history and legacy of the Vietnam War has a superior interactive timeline, basic statistics, maps and much more.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: Wilbur and Orville Wright: Wright Stuff
Companion information for the PBS program, a brief history of Wilbur and Orville Wright's lives and inventions, and their flight at Kitty Hawk.
Public Broadcasting Service: American Experience: William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles: Battle Over Citizen Kane
Learn about the epic battle between William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles over the movie 'Citizen Kane'. Includes a program transcript.
Public Broadcasting Service: Arthur
This educational and entertaining PBS cartoon series is designed to encourage a love of reading and writing among kids. Includes an episode guide.
Public Broadcasting Service: Children's Activities and Resources Guide
This great learning and activities site for young children provides hours of stimulating fun, along with clickable links to PBS television show sites.
Public Broadcasting Service: Children's Ready to Learn Television Programming Guide
Parents, browse this online guide to PBS educational programming for children with program descriptions and accompanying home pages, more.
Public Broadcasting Service: Frontline
Frontline, PBS's flagship public affairs series, offers this site to enhance its programs, with summaries, curriculum guides, materials and maps.
Public Broadcasting Service: KCET: Kino's Story Time
Reading aloud tips for parents (also available in Spanish), a program FAQ, a list of featured books, coloring pages, games, and program clips.
Public Broadcasting Service: Kratts Creatures
Explore the animal world via descriptive species profiles, photographs, and video clips, with interactive games, quizzes, and other activities.
Public Broadcasting Service: Merrow Report
Transcripts, video clips, program descriptions and a viewer's guide for this quarterly PBS documentary series on children and education.
Public Broadcasting Service: Newton's Apple
Suggested activities and experiments for the home or classroom, an episode guide and place to ask questions to be answered in future episodes.
Public Broadcasting Service: NOVA Online
A variety of presentations based on recent NOVA programs on dinosaurs, astronomy, exploration, medicine, archaeology, animals, and other topics.
Public Broadcasting Service: Teacher Source
Educational television programs and videos cover the arts and literature, health and vocation, social studies, math, science, and technology.
Public Broadcasting Service: Tots TV
PBS offers this preschool educational television series. Find an episode guide, character descriptions, scripts, video clips, and a storybook.
Public Broadcasting Service: Where in Time Is Carmen San Diego?
Historical television series for kids has an adventure-game show format. Includes information on related software, games, puzzles, and books.
Public Broadcasting Service: Wimzie's House
A preschooler's "educational sitcom," designed to promote social and emotional communication, has games, storybooks, and other activities.
Public Broadcasting Service: Wish Bone
Designed to "introduce elementary school-age children to classic literature and encourage a love of reading books," Wish Bone is great fun.
School House Rock: Children's Educational Series and Information Guide
Get information about School House Rock, the 1970s educational series, with lyrics, audio/video files, and the history and credits for the songs.
Time Warner Corporation: Turner Learning Information Guide
Utilize this guide to educational television offered by Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, TNT, TBS, the Cartoon Network and others.
United Press Syndicate: Beakman and Jax Science Program Guide
Get answers to 50 questions, such as "How does soap work?" "What is earwax?" and "How do glasses help me see?" in engaging, clear language.
WGBH, Boston, Massachusetts
WGBH provides this online resource center for educational projects, services, and programs, featuring a wealth of information for educators.