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Q. How do I schedule a station tour for my classroom?
A. We conduct station tours Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm. If you would like to set up a station tour or request a special tour date or time please call (937) 220-1708 or email dthevenin@thinktv.org.
Q. Where can I attend an early learning workshop?
A. Our community workshops help parents, educators and child care providers extend the learning value of our educational program offerings. Click here for a complete list of community workshops. For more information or to register for a workshop call Tina Spaulding (937-220-1670) or email at tspaulding@thinktv.org.
Q. How can I help make sure my child is prepared to begin school?
A. ThinkTV’s Ready to Learn service is designed to help young children become effective learners. Use “View, Read, Do” to extend your child’s television learning. Click here for more information about “View, Read, Do.”
Q. What is the Reading Rainbow Young Writer’s and Illustrators Contest?
A. This contest was created to encourage children to express themselves through writing and drawing. Each year we invite children to write, illustrate and submit stories to ThinkTV. First, second and third place winners are chosen in four categories Kindergarten, first, second and third grades. Contact Tina Spaulding (937-220-1670), email tspaulding@thinktv.org for more information.
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Grades 3-8
Part travelogue and part history, this multimedia curriculum takes students to historic locations around the state of Ohio. Interviews with local experts, combined with archival film, help to re-create the important role each of these locations played in Ohio's history and development.
(more our ohio info)
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Grades 3-5
In Season II of Our Ohio: Exploring Our Heritage six videos and accompanying lessons take students to historic locations in Ohio. Lessons and activities are aligned to the Ohio Academic Content Standards for grades 3-5 and are tied to Ohio history themes including early statehood, geography, geology, economics, technology, innovation, the branches of government and more.
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Grades 9-12
ThinkTV has created these economics resources for grades 9-12 based on our public television series, Our Ohio. Six 4-8 minute video segments take students around the state to explore our economy. Interviews with local business people, farmers, industry leaders, and experts from the automotive, agriculture, and manufacturing industries will illustrate the role that local businesses and communities play in the economy of the state, country, and even the world.
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Grades 6-9
Engineering Your Future introduces students to the exciting fields of engineering! Engineers from various fields of engineering tell their stories and answer frequently asked questions through streaming video and audio, and written interviews to help students prepare for studies in the engineering field. (more engineering info)
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Grades 5-10
Through a partnership with Wright State University, Dayton Public Schools, ThinkTV, and local historical organizations, the Dayton Teaching American History project has developed online American history instructional guides for grades 5, 8, and 9.
(visit dayton teaching american history)
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Grades 9-12
Through a partnership with Wright State University, the Montgomery County Educational Services Center, ThinkTV and a dedicated team of curriculum advisors, teachers, and historians, the Miami Valley Teaching American History project has developed online resources to help students having difficulty with the social studies portion of the Ohio Graduation Test. (visit miami valley teaching american history)
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Grades 7-9
Ohio Math Works links math and careers, video, web and print materials to bring the world of fashion, food, theme parks, sports and meteorology into the classroom. (visit ohio math works)
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Grades 6-8
Ohio has good reason to brag about our authors. Ohio literature has shaped American literature and society for two centuries! And now, the Ohio Reading Road Trip brings some of Ohio's greatest writers into middle school classrooms. (visit ohio reading road trip) |
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Grades 6-8
ThinkTV's interactive multimedia language arts curriculum was developed to improve the reading and writing skills of middle school students. Students take on the role of reporters and editors as they engage in the real-life challenges of reporting news and publishing a newspaper. (visit the write site)
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Grades 9-12
20th Century Interactive is a multimedia, high school curriculum in which students experience a sense of discovery as they become historians who actively search for the history around them.
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Grade 5
The Rest of Your Brain is a multi-media, interactive curriculum for fifth grade students in the Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo regions. The program connects authentic arts experiences with core skills in all five disciplines tested by Ohio's proficiency exams. Through the arts-based activities in the basic curricular areas, students learn about key periods of American history:
- Native Americans: Digging Into Our Past
- Colonization and the Revolutionary War
- Underground Railroad: The Trail to Freedom
- Building a Multicultural Nation
- Pathbreaking Inventions
- The Stories of American Heroes
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Grades 6-8
Through this multimedia curriculum, students discover answers to three critical problems of flight: Control, Lift and Propulsion. Students also learn both the history and science of flight, and how the Wrights laid the foundation for today’s aeronautical sciences.
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Grade 4
This interactive curriculum helps students learn about the science of flight, history and the Wright Brothers.
(visit problem solving with wilbur and orville)
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Grades 3-5
This activity driven multimedia curriculum brings history to life for the elementary grades through hands on activities where students learn to act like historians. (visit hunting for everday history) |
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