July 29 – August 7: Great Outdoors Week

Explore the world outside your door and the incredible parks and waters that belong to us all.

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Events

curious crew elephant toothpaste roadshow

Elephant Toothpaste with Curious Crew

Virtual Event in partnership with WKAR on June 22 at 10am

Detroit Zoo Penguins event with Michigan Learning Channel

Behind the Scenes with the Penguins from the Detroit Zoo

Online Event on June 24 at 10am

This Week's Lessons

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  • Repurposing Metal and Simple Compound Words
    Lesson 211

    Repurposing Metal and Simple Compound Words

    English2nd Grade

    Work with simple compound words and learn how to reuse and recycle metal.

  • More Closed and Open Syllables
    Lesson 211

    More Closed and Open Syllables

    English3rd Grade

    Work with words that have open and closed syllables, and brainstorm sentences.

  • Shape Mobile

    Shape Mobile

    Math1st Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K

    How many shapes can your child think of? Ask them to draw one shape per a piece of colored paper and say the names as they do so. Then, create and decorate the…

  • Show Not Tell: The Five Senses
    Lesson 3

    Show Not Tell: The Five Senses

    English4th Grade, 5th Grade

    In today's episode, Lauren and Eric show us how Show Not Tell applies to emotions. Each episode of SPTV includes one of these educational lessons. Catch full e…

  • Adding and Subtracting Fractions
    Lesson 306

    Adding and Subtracting Fractions

    Math4th Grade

    Use visual fraction models to add and subtract fractions with the same denominators. Notice patterns in the numerator and denominator of the sum and difference…

  • Hero Stories 9: Heroic Dialogue Words
    Lesson 109

    Hero Stories 9: Heroic Dialogue Words

    English4th Grade, 5th Grade

    In this episode, we'll use some unique dialoge descriptors. Each episode of SPTV includes one of these educational lessons. Catch full episodes of Story Pirate…

  • Hero Stories 7: Heroic Dialogue
    Lesson 107

    Hero Stories 7: Heroic Dialogue

    English4th Grade, 5th Grade

    In this episode, we'll decide how out hero should speak. Each episode of SPTV includes one of these educational lessons. Catch full episodes of Story Pirates o…

  • Dynamic Warm-Up Exercises
    Lesson 1123

    Dynamic Warm-Up Exercises

    Health & Fitness6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade

    For this movement activity, we’ll be doing some dynamic warm-up exercises including High Knees , Butt kicks, Knee Tuck Lunge and more with Roary.