Fill out the We Can! Screen Time Chart to see how much time your family spends in front of a screen. Keep one chart for each person.
Join Joe as he explores the weather! Look to the sky and get a better glimpse of clouds. Tour the major storms such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms. Dive into the water cycle and see how NASA studies the water cycle to help predict future weather patterns. Investigate wet weather by exploring the types of precipitation and the tools we use to measure it.
Do you need a way to hold students accountable with their workouts at home or in school? Look no further! You now have access to an online, daily workout, that changes every 24-hours. Use this resource to log the name of the workout, exercises in the circuit, sets and duration. There is a final reflection at the end of the week too!
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jadah Jones teach about conflict and resolution in fictional texts.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kyle Snyder teach about equations.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Joy Phillips teach about using context clues to find the meaning of multiple meaning words.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Nicole Neice teach about conflict and resolution.
Students will discuss child labor in the United States as represented in an early-20th-century photograph, research and write a story based on the issue of child labor, and participate in a mock news broadcast in response to the works of art.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kathryn Turner teach about percentages and their equivalent fractions and decimals.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mary Mathias teach about plot.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Meghan Dmytriw teach about brainstorming and prewriting to write about a good friend.
This playlist contains resources for parents who are interested in protecting the health of their children, and for school divisions tasked with sharing parent education resources within their region. All resources were produced in partnership with the Virginia Department of Education and Health Education experts.
What Parents Need to Know about Kids and Unsafe Behavior (Opioid focus -What it Takes Episode)
Description: For both parents and adults who care about children, one of the hardest things to do is to try to help a child in crisis. Whether it’s drugs, alcohol, sexual behavior, or other vices, it can be hard to be both helpful and compassionate while not either contributing the to the problem or causing a child to shut us out. Dr. Cheri Hartman was Roanoke’s Citizen of the Year in 2021 for her advocacy and outreach with children and adults. She is the Grant Project Director at Carilion Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health in Roanoke, and she joins host Tom Landon to discuss how to help kids avoid addiction and destructive behavior.
What Parents Need to Know About Opioids and Families (Parent Interview):
Description: Tess Henry was a promising young woman who lost her life to opioid addiction. Now her mother, Patricia Mehrman, shares the story of her daughter’s journey from honor student and published poet to her tragic murder in Las Vegas where she had gone to seek treatment. This story demonstrates that no child is immune from the dangers of opioids, and provides tips for parents for recognizing the signs of addiction in their children. Produced in partnership with the Virginia Department of Education by Blue Ridge PBS
What Parents Need to Know about Vaping Prevention:
Description: When New York mom Mimi Boublik learned that her high schooler had started vaping, she was ill prepared to discuss the consequences of e-cigarette use, so she joined up with a group of other moms who'd recently formed PAVe, Parents Against Vaping e-Cigarettes. Now, years later, the organization is still leading the fight against big tobacco's kid-centric marketing efforts. Boublik discusses the long term dangers of e-cigarettes as part of a collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education to provide Virginia parents with the tools they need to talk to their kids about harmful behaviors.
What Parents Need to Know About Vaping – Hidden in Plain Sight Presentation:
Description: Hidden in Plain Sight is a nationally recognized program where local health agencies partner with law enforcement to help parents understand the dangers their kids face when it comes to drugs. Vaping is considered by many to be less harmful than cigarettes, but often leads to nicotine addiction in kids. In this program, Radford City (VA) Police officer Thad Beasley walks parents through a typical child's bedroom to point out how kids might hide vaping materials "in plain sight", and how parents can check to make sure their kids are safe. This video was produced for the Virginia Department of Education by Blue Ridge PBS.
What Parents Need to Know about Problem Gambling – What it Takes:
Description: In 2022, Americans lost a record 55 billion dollars in casinos and on mobile gaming apps, over 13% more than in any previous year. The growth of sports betting and the arrival of casinos in the Commonwealth represents a huge opportunity for revenue generation, but for some gamblers the allure of big money can become problematic. Host Tom Landon is joined by Anne Rogers and Don McCourtney of the Virginia Office of Behavioral Health and Wellness to share ways to help those who suffer from gambling addiction.
What Parents Need to Know About Teen Gambling – Parent Interview:
Description: Gambling is now legal in Virginia, with the arrival of casinos to go along with the Virginia Lottery, Off Track Betting, and licensed online sports books. But it's still illegal for children to gamble. In this interview, two parents share their own journey of addiction and recovery, and how addiction affected their family, including a teenage son who also shared their family's secret addiction.
What Parents Need to Know about Student Betting
Description: Blue Ridge PBS is proud to partner with Gray Media and the Arnoldt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University to air and share an excellent report that highlights the ways that teens get involved in sports betting and the consequences of doing so. The investigative package they have created includes video resources and written reports highlighting the dangers of teen gambling.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jadah Jones teach about cause and effect.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mary Mathias teach about comparing characters in a story using character traits.
Developed for school divisions that are interested in offering a high school Data Science course, this video covers information about Data Science as a topic, what is included in a Data Science high school course, teacher professional learning and resources, and contact information to get started.
What is Random? Through this project, students will discover what makes an outcome random. Emphasis will be placed on the difference between deterministic and nondeterministic outcomes. The project starts out with a discovery activity where students will see the difference between creating data with a coin toss where they just make up the data and creating data through actually tossing a coin.Students will end the project by studying pseudorandom number generators, specifically the Middle Squared Algorithm. They will even create a program that uses this algorithm. Enjoy!
Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and VPM radio producer Steve Clark co-host What’s Bugging You? Their engaging, wide-ranging, and humorous explorations into the world of insects and entomology are presented as an animated series. It leans into the crazy, fun, and hilarious aspects of the insect world. It asks the question of when is a bug a true bug. How do I find those insects hiding in plain sight? What in the world is a booger beetle and a fecal shield? All these answers and more are uncovered in the new videos through artfully illustrated and accurate depictions of insects and their surroundings.
Each video captures the look of a field notebook, with handwritten observations and illustrations. Inspired by entomologists' collections, animator David Vinson shares, “I wanted the labels to have typewritten and handwritten text like you would see in a case of pinned insect specimens with notes and scientific names. As for the insects themselves, I wanted them to have the illustrative quality of a field guide. Even though it was all created digitally, I still wanted it to look like the elements could have been made by hand.”
Whether you love insects or you just don’t know you love them yet, we think you’ll enjoy this series. Not only is it fun, gross, weird, and strange, but it’s also educational and entertaining. You’ll learn more about the insects that are all around us as you stop and wonder “what’s bugging you?”
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jadah Jones teach about subject-verb agreement.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mary Mathias teach about using story elements to make, confirm, and revise predictions.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Carolyn Harris teach about how to solve a story problem to 10 using addition and subtraction.