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Help spread the word about GPB Education's free resources and training opportunities with your teacher friends and colleagues!

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GPB currently offers 11 virtual field trips that include over 30+ different locations throughout the state of Georgia.

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Explore Georgia's rich history and culture without leaving the classroom with this virtual field trip collection from GPB.

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Herschelle Challenor, a graduate of Spelman College, describes the challenges of segregation in Atlanta during the 1950s. Claude Sitton, a reporter for the...

Dario Rossi is a prominent sculptor who left his home in Carrara, Italy, to work in Elberton. Rossi designs and carves primarily on grave markers,...

Anchormen and reporters imagine a television newscast from Savannah in 1734: The Colonial Evening News.

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Herschelle Challenor, a graduate of Spelman College, describes the challenges of segregation in Atlanta during the 1950s. Claude Sitton, a reporter for the... Dario Rossi is a prominent sculptor who left his home in Carrara, Italy, to work in Elberton. Rossi designs and carves primarily on grave markers,...

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Live Explorations from GPB Education

Take your students on rich and immersive learning experiences without ever leaving the walls of your classroom. Discover one of the last frontiers of true Georgia wilderness at the Okefenokee Swamp or swim alongside divers as they explore the seafloor of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of GA. GPB's Live Explorations are fun, educational, and free - no permission slips required!

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Take your students on rich and immersive learning experiences without ever leaving the walls of your classroom. Discover one of the last frontiers of true Georgia wilderness at the Okefenokee Swamp or swim alongside divers as they explore the seafloor of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of GA.

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A STEAM-based web series for middle and high school students

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A STEAM-based web series for middle and high school students

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Each episode of Fast Forward visits a different location in Georgia and highlights the multitude of career opportunities in the STEAM fields.

All episodes include vocabulary, standards alignments, extension activities, external links, and more!

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The "secret" to what makes the King of Pops pops so delicious isn't actually a secret at all, as you'll see in this episode. But the folks at this Atlanta-based company do put a lot of love into making their delicious treats. The owners themselves will give you the backstory of how King of Pops...

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We visit the birthplace of NASCAR, along with a brand new country club for car lovers. That's right-instead of a golf course, they have a racetrack! In addition to looking back at the area's rich NASCAR history, Teachable Moments include an investigation of Newton's Second Law of Motion and an...

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Fast Forward travels to the west side of the state to clear up some misconceptions about modern factories. We visit KIA Motors Manufacturing Georgia in West Point. This state-of-the-art facility rolls out one new car every minute, and we show the entire process-from steel coils all the way to...

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Also known as "green screen," chroma key isn't just used by TV weather people. It's also a great tool for creating special effects, as we explain here.

One of the keys for creating zombie illusions is the use of prosthetics. We find out what they are, and how they're used in television.

If you want to remain the busiest airport in the world, it will help to understand the best way to lay out the runways and why this works so well.

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GPB Media, The Georgia Department of Education and The Office of the Governor Announce the Launch of an Innovative New STEM Web-Based Series Fast Forward
(Atlanta) - GPB Media, in partnership with the Governor's Office and the Georgia Department of Education, is proud to announce the launch of Fast Forward, a GPB Original Production and Multimedia Project that promotes student achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs by highlighting the multitude of career opportunities here in Georgia for those who are interested in the subjects.

The Fast Forward project consists of 16 video segments that present Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (also known as the STEM curriculum) concepts in a fun, entertaining and informative way by demonstrating how employees in businesses and organizations across the state are applying the topic matter in their jobs. Read more

This content was developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, this content does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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The Fast Forward project consists of 16 video segments that present Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (also known as the STEM curriculum) concepts in a fun, entertaining and informative way by demonstrating how employees in businesses and organizations across the state are applying the topic matter in their jobs.

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Things Explained tackles all kinds of questions with short, easy-to-understand videos that include vocabulary, experiments, and real-world examples right here in Georgia.

**We are considering turning this into a regular YouTube series.
What kinds of topics would you like to see us cover? Should we make these videos longer? Tell us what you think!

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Things Explained

Ever wonder how a giant ship can float or how buildings are demolished in the middle of a city? We do too! Our new series, Things Explained, tackles all kinds of questions with short, easy-to-understand videos that include vocabulary, experiments, and real-world examples right here in Georgia. Targeting elementary and middle school concepts, each video is aligned to GSE standards.

Virtual Field Trips
The virtual field trips bring Georgia locations to life with interviews, 360-degree panoramic photography, interactive elements, discussion prompts, and videos. Teachers can help students explore these historic locations by accessing the virtual field trips through the web and tablets.

Fast Forward
Fast Forward is an original GPB series that presents Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts in a fun, entertaining and informative way by demonstrating how employees in businesses and organizations across the state are applying the topic matter in their jobs.

Education Matters Blog
The Education Matters blog covers topics and trends in education, as well as school-specific success stories. The "Share Your Story" initiative allows teachers from all over the state to upload a guest blog, sharing how they are innovating and integrating technology in their classroom.

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Ever wonder how a giant ship can float or how buildings are demolished in the middle of a city? We do too! Our new series, Things Explained, tackles all kinds of questions with short, easy-to-understand videos that include vocabulary, experiments, and real-world examples right here in Georgia.

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The GPB Education team travels the state to offer free professional development sessions on digital integration strategies, Discovery Education, PBS LearningMedia, Georgia Studies Digital Collection and more!

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Mary Anne serves as an education specialist at GPB, where she develops content and resources for educators and students. A native Georgian, Mary Anne graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Georgia earning her Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Education, with concentrations in Language Arts and Social Studies.... more

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GPB Education Offers Free Training Sessions To Georgia Schools

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Mary Anne serves as an education specialist at GPB, where she develops content and resources for educators and students. A native Georgian, Mary Anne graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Georgia earning her Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Education, with concentrations in Language Arts and Social Studies....

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Georgia Forests: A Virtual Learning Journey

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Georgia Forests: A Virtual Learning Journey

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Teacher Resources

Grades K-5

Host Jeff Corwin travels the backwoods and bayous of southern Louisiana. Here, he encounters black bears, armadillos, and rattlesnakes, as well as creatures of the swamp including a cottonmouth, a rare white alligator, and the elusive alligator snapping turtle. Many of these same animals can be found in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.

Learn about how animals utilize what's in their habitat to build their homes-and how they construct their shelters to stay alive in this video from NATURE: Animal Homes. Using video, text-dependent questions, and teaching tips, students gain a deeper understanding about animal habitats around the world.

This video defines wetland habitats and describes the many types of animal species that live there. There is a wide variety of species that live in the wetlands.

Learn about the natural defense mechanism of camouflage as the Kratt brothers explore how it's used by walking sticks and chameleons. Viewers learn that chameleons move in a jerking motion to look like a leaf blowing in the wind and that they have swiveling eyes, enabling them to spot predators and prey.

This video segment from IdahoPTV's Science Trek reveals the many adaptations that prey have to avoid predators, and that predators have to catch prey. Students will discover how both depend on each other.

In this activity from Fetch!, students will learn to appreciate how camouflage helps animals in the wild. Students will play a game in which they will "hunt" for animals whose colors blend in with their surroundings. How hard or easy was that? Blending in with their environments helps animals stay safe from predators.

Discover how animals use camouflage to help hide from predators in this video clip from Discovery Education.

This video segment from IdahoPTV's Science Trek defines wetlands (slough, swamp, bog, marsh, and riparian zones) by their 3 characteristics: water, hydric soil, hydrophytes. It stresses why wetlands are critical for wildlife survival.

In this lesson, students play a series of online games in which they model how the plants and animals in an ecosystem depend on one another.

*You will need access to your Discovery Education account to view their resources. If you are a Georgia educator who needs help accessing your free DE account, please contact education@gpb.org.

Grades 6-8

Don Berryhill, science specialist with the Okefenokee Regional Education Service Agency, guides students in a canoe through the Okefenokee Swamp and points out many unique species in this specialized ecosystem. Bill Cribbs, a descendant of a farmer who came to the Okefenokee in the late 1800s, and park ranger Pete Griffin describe life in the swamp when people worked at the Hebard Lumber Company. Like any mysterious place, legends abound, Cribbs and Griffin have a few stories to tell.

This virtual field trip takes students on a journey throughout the state of Georgia, guiding them through twelve of the state's physical features and explaining the relative location of each, as well as their environmental characteristics, historical connections, and much more. Students will visit several physical featutes, including the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia.

Wetlands exemplify the structure and functions of ecosystems and how ecosystems change over time. In these videos, students meet wetland scientist Dan Fink, who hosts the program and examines the types of communities of plants, animals, birds and fish that abound in wetlands, the process of photosynthesis, and the complex relationship between water and productivity.

In this lesson plan, students examine some of the behaviors and physical characteristics that enable organisms to live successfully in their environment.

Fire is the result of different chemicals interacting. It can start with lightning, lava or a match, and how it burns depends upon three key things. What it leaves behind can be surprising.

The Indian Mounds experience includes virtual field trips to Ocmulgee National Monument, Kolomoki Mounds State Park, and Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site.

In this media-rich lesson, students use a systems thinking approach to explore the components and processes of ecosystems. They analyze both a hypothetical and a local ecosystem by identifying abiotic and biotic components and their relationships.

In this lesson plan, students consider how animals solve the problem of finding food, especially under harsh climatic conditions.

During "Rebirth in Fire," students will hear from foresters and biologists as the Tacklebox Team examines fire as a force in the environment. While fire has historically played an important role in ecosystems, it is a natural process that cannot always be controlled. Prescribed burns are routinely used to maintain a healthy forest environment and manage resources. Travel to Kisatchie National Forest and Yellowstone National Park to learn about the natural recovery process for native plants that benefit from fire.

Katelyn and Blake are nuts about animals, especially reptiles! Katelyn is a junior volunteer at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. She knows a lot about reptiles. Here's a good question: What makes a good home for alligators?

*You will need access to your Discovery Education account to view their resources. If you are a Georgia educator who needs help accessing your free DE account, please contact education@gpb.org.

Grades 9-12

Why is biodiversity important? Explore how healthy ecosystems provide crucial direct, indirect, and aesthetic-ethical benefits to humans.

What's the difference between diversity in genees and species? Why are some species better than others at adapting to environmental changes? Learn more about specific levels of biodiversity, and see examples of plant and animal species and why they are important to each level.

See how seasonal changes drive patterns in animal behavior. Track the movement of two migratory birds of prey-ospreys and turkey vultures-as they travel between North and South America over a single calendar year.

To understand why Jekyll Island is such a great place for sea turtles, it'll help to understand what an ecosystem is. Learn more about ecosystems in this Teachable Moment.

How can mammals survive hibernation? We may not know as much as we think. There are several myths about hibernation that are corrected in this seasonal science video.

In this interactive lesson, students discover what swamp gas is and why it is the reason behind the name Okefenokee, or "land of trembling earth."

*You will need access to your Discovery Education account to view their resources. If you are a Georgia educator who needs help accessing your free DE account, please contact education@gpb.org.

Elementary Vocabulary List
Middle/High School Vocabulary List

Gray's Reef
Take your students on an exploration of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in this 30 minute virtual field trip. This event was live streamed on May 10, 2017, from the University of Georgia's Marine Education Center and Aquarium in Savannah, GA.

Things Explained
Ever wonder how a giant ship can float or how buildings are demolished in the middle of a city? We do too! In this digital series, we explain how different phenomena work!

Education Matters Blog
The Education Matters blog covers topics and trends in education, as well as school-specific success stories. The "Share Your Story" initiative allows teachers from all over the state to upload a guest blog, sharing how they are innovating and integrating technology in their classroom.

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Grades K-5 Host Jeff Corwin travels the backwoods and bayous of southern Louisiana. Here, he encounters black bears, armadillos, and rattlesnakes, as well as creatures of the swamp including a cottonmouth, a rare white alligator, and the elusive alligator snapping turtle. Many of these same animals can be found in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.

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Tell us your ideas for expanding Fast Forward. More companies to visit? More careers to highlight? More standards to align (CTAE, National Career Clusters)?

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Focusing on early learning

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We are exploring ways to include more 360 videos/VR in existing VFTs and potential future locations. Suggestions?

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On Demand: Gray's Reef Live Exploration About GPB Live Exploration: Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary
Take your students on an exploration of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in this 30 minute virtual field trip. This event was live streamed on May 10, 2017, from the University of Georgia's Marine Education Center and Aquarium in Savannah, GA. This unique experience teaches students about the animals that call Gray's Reef home, how the seafloor serves as a habitat and ways they can help protect the reef from major threats. Join marine experts as they share the importance of their research and answer questions from the audience. Supplemental classroom resources and an extended Q & A session with our experts are also available on this site.
Gray's Reef Supplemental Resources

Grades K-5

Usable Water
Students will be able to identify where different water sources are found, understand how much water is usable, and learn why it's important to take care of our usable water.

GPS: S3-5CS4 (a); S6E3 (a); S6E3 (a); S6S5 (a) NGSS: 5-ESS2.A.1; 5-ESS2.C.3
Protecting Our Backyard
Students will identify variables that impact a watershed and understand the importance of keeping it healthy.

GPS: S4CS3 (c, d); S4CS4 (a); S4CS8 (a, b)
Land Use Planning
Students learn how land affects water quality.

GPS: S4CS3; S4CS3
STEAM Lesson: Your Trash My Treasure
Students will be resourceful and use their ingenuity skills to transform recyclable items into a work of art.

GPS: SCI.3.S3L2; MGSE3.NBT.2; VA3PR.1.d; 3-5-ETS1-1-3; T4.a
What's the Story with Sand?
Students will understand that sand is what's left after weathering of rocks, recognize that different types of sand exist, and differentiate between sand, soil, and other small particles.

GPS: S5E1 (a, b, c); Georgia NETS-S 5T3; 5T3b1

Grades 6-8

The Effect of Turbulence on Dissolved Oxygen in Water
This lesson focuses on the importance of dissolved oxygen to a healthy aquatic ecosystem and how dissolved oxygen in water can be increased.

GPS: S6E3; S6E5; S6E
The Sound of the Beluga
Students will understand sound waves, frequencies, and their uses in the human and animal world.

GPS: S8CS6; S8P4
Exploring the Ocean with Robots: NOAA
In this video, students explore some of the innovative technologies that are being used to help study and protect our marine ecosystems.

GPS: S6E3 (c); S7L4 (e)
Ocean Temperatures and Climate Patterns
This animation from The New Media Studio explains precipitation patterns by illustrating how differences in ocean surface temperatures create wind, and how wind patterns can in turn affect ocean surface temperatures.

GPS: S6E4 (a, c); S8P2 (d)
Who, Me?
Students will identify how humans impact aquatic ecosystems, be able to show how limited freshwater is to all organisms, and how each of them can help clean up and conserve water and prevent water pollution.

GPS: S6E3 (a, b); S6E5 (i); S6E6; S7L4 (c)

Grades 9-12

Researching Impacts of Ocean Acidification
Students explore how rising ocean acidity is affecting animals in this video from NOVA: Lethal Seas.

GPS: SC7; SB4; SO5 (c); SEC4 (a)
Chemically Testing for Water Quality
Students will understand that humans impact the water quality in a watershed and that all living things need good water quality for their survival.

GPS: SCSH1; SCSH2; SCSH3; SCHSH4; SCSH9; SEV4 (d, f); SEV5 (c, d, e)
Conservation and Restoration Ecology
Students will take a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology: protecting ecosystems and to cleaning up the messes that humans have already made.

GPS: SEC2 (d); SEV4 (a, f); SEV5 (a); SB4 (d) GSE: SB5 (a, e); SEV4 (a, b)
The Endangered Species Act
Students will learn about the Endangered Species Act, passed by Congress in 1973, which protects animals and plants that are in danger of becoming extinct.

GPS: SB4 (c); SO6 (d); SEC2 (d)
Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the [Food] Chain
Students go to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem.

GPS: SEC4 (a-d); SEV1 (b-e); SB4 (a-b)

About The Filming Location
The University of Georgia Marine Education Center and Aquarium on Skidaway Island is part of Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. The center serves over 45,000 people annually through student field trips, teacher workshops, summer marine science camps, and public programs. The UGA Aquarium features 16 exhibit tanks filled with a variety of coastal fish, invertebrates and reptiles, most of which are native to the Georgia coast. One of the main attractions in the aquarium is the 3D diorama of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, which includes spadefish and great barracuda swimming amongst live bottom communities of sponges, corals and sea squirts.

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On Demand: Gray's Reef Live Exploration About GPB Live Exploration: Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Take your students on an exploration of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in this 30 minute virtual field trip. This event was live streamed on May 10, 2017, from the University of Georgia's Marine Education Center and Aquarium in Savannah, GA.

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We are flirting with the idea of creating a mobile VR lab and traveling throughout the state to showcase VR and highlight its use in education.

What are your thoughts on this project?

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And any other suggestions are much appreciated! :)

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