Ken Burns in the classroom

PBS LearningMedia has created an online access point for educational materials based on Ken Burn’s documentaries and media resources. The free resources for middle and secondary classrooms consist of video segments (250), images, documents and lesson ideas aligned with standards. I own the Ken Burns Jazz and Blues videos and Burns has a gift for contextualizing a topic (e.g., music, war, baseball, dust bowl) that offers great material for history and social studies teachers. Assignments can even be shared to Google classroom.

A sample from the environmental catastrophe of the dust bowl. Video segment with related study guide.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.