Please browse our site to see the resources we have available to all the students and teachers in your district. From Scholastic Scrimmage to Artist of the Week to Curriculum and Professional Development, the WVIA V-Media program offers a wide array of useful opportunities for both student and educator. For more information about any of these programs, please contact Andrea O’Neill at (570) 602-1182 or andreao’neill@wvia.org

Benefit List
Thank you current members!

Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16 Benton Area School District Lewisburg Area School District Millville Area School District Milton Area School District Mount Carmel School District Southern Columbia Area School District Selinsgrove Area School District Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21 Weatherly Area School District

Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 Dallas School District Greater Nanticoke Area Hanover Area School District Hazleton Area School District Lake Lehman School District Pittston Area School Distirct Tunkhannock Area School District Wilkes-Barre Area School District Wyoming Area School District Wyoming Valley West School District

Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19 Abington Heights School District Dunmore School District Lakeland School District Mid Valley School District Old Forge School District Riverside School District Scranton School District Valley View School District Blue Ridge School District Elk Lake School District Forest City Regional School District Montrose Area School District Mountain View School District Susquehanna Community School District Wallenpaupack Area School District Wayne Highlands School District Western Wayne School District

WVIA and the Pennsylvania College of Technology have teamed up to create informative programs about the cutting edge, technical careers that await our current high school and college students. As they are completed, each episode of the degrees that work series will have high school curriculum to accompany it and will be available On Demand here. Contact Andrea O’Neill at (570) 602-1182 with any questions.

 

degrees that work series - GOING GREEN II
premieres Thursday, April 12 at 8pm on WVIA TV.

"Green jobs" can be a cryptic term, but the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides meaning and context to it with the Green Jobs Report. The study identifies five promising green industry sectors employing people throughout the state and nation. This episode of degrees that work.tv explores two of the sectors: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Exciting career possibilities in those fields are revealed by national experts and through the experiences of building science and sustainable design majors completing a green project at Pennsylvania College of Technology. A trip to Washington, D.C. is included to visit the first LEED platinum-certified office building in the nation’s capital.

degrees that work marathon
Sunday, April 22 from 1pm-4pm on WVIA TV
1pm - NANOTECHNOLOGY
1:30pm - WELDING
2pm - ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
2:30pm - PLASTICS
3pm - GOING GREEN
3:30pm - GOING GREEN II

To date, the completed and available programs and curriculum are listed below:

degrees that work series available On Demand degrees that work #101: Nanotechnology - click here degrees that work #102: Welding - click here degrees that work: #103: Advanced Manufacturing - click here degrees that work: #104: Plastics - click here degrees that work #105: Going Green Part 1 - click here

degrees that work series - available curriculum Nanotechnology - Available Curriculum Guidance Counselor Series Science Teacher Series Technology Education Series Welding - Available Curriculum Counselor Series Science Series, Researching Welding Careers Technology Education Series, Evaluating a Career in Welding Technology Education Series, Physical Technologies in Welding The Science of Welding and Welding Careers The Science of Welding Power Point Advanced Manufacturing - Available Curriculum Guidance Counselor Series Language Arts Series, Quality of writing (7-9 grade) Science Series, Reasoning and analysis (6th grade) Science Series, Reasoning and analysis (8th grade) Technology Education Series, Careers in Technology (9th & 10th grade) Plastics - Available Curriculum Education Series, Careers in Technology (9th & 10th grade) Language Arts Series, Comprehension and Reading Skills (7-9 grade) Science Series, Physical Reactions (6-8 grade) Science Series, Physical Science Chemistry (8th grade) Science Series, Technology and Society (8th grade) Going Green - Available Curriculum English Series - An Acrostic About Being An Environmental Steward (Grades 6-8) English Series - Recycling – Helping With a Poem (Grades 6-9) Science Series - If You Build It they Will Come! (Grade 5) Science Series - Packing a Lunch That Benefits Everyone (Grades 6 and 7) Science Series - Practicing Sustainable Agriculture (Grades 6 and 7) Science Series - Recycling – Making the Case! (Grade 6) Technology Education Series - Exploration of Green Jobs

 

 

Documentaries, Curriculum and Professional Development

WVIA provides our member schools nearly 50 locally produced documentaries on regional history, heritage and other social and political topics. Copies of these programs and selected teacher’s guides are available. WVIA’s role as our region’s premier storyteller has been enhanced through the development of cross-curricular unit plans that are derived from the standards-based components addressed in each original WVIA documentary.

WVIA and NEIU 19 also offer Professional Development to accompany this curriculum upon the release of each new documentary. The workshops will be designed to help teachers utilize these resources from WVIA and offer Act 48 credit hours.

Curriculum is available for the following documentaries:

• Gino Merli: The Healing Hero
• The Extraordinary Journey
• Looking to the River
• Follow the North Star to Freedom
• William Warren Scranton: In a Clear Light
• Remembering Agnes

Coming soon: Hearth and Harvest • The Irish: Two Nations-One Heart
Browse all documentaries

Do you know a teacher who excels in the classroom? Does this teacher consider teaching as a vocation? Do they exemplify all that is good about the profession? Do they go above and beyond to push their students toward success? If so, WVIA is offering each of our member schools the opportunity to nominate a teacher to participate in our brand new Teacher of the Month program. The teacher chosen will be featured in a one-minute presentation on WVIA TV and wvia.org during the entire month that he or she is chosen as Teacher of the Month.

To review the 2011-12 WVIA Teacher of the Month flyer click here.
Click here and save the WVIA Teacher of the Month submission form.

 

WVIA Teacher of the Month is presented in part by

 

May 2012 Teacher of the Month

 

April 2012 Teacher of the Month

 

March 2012 Teacher of the Month

 

February 2012 Teacher of the Month

 

January 2012 Teacher of the Month

2011-2012 Winners

First Place:
Kindergarten: Riley Boock from Jefferson Township for the story “Little Squirrel’s First Winter”
1st Grade: Calvin Jones from Danville for the story “The Runaway Tooth”
2nd Grade: Lydia Getty from Bloomsburg for the story “The Lonely Turtle”
3rd Grade: Sean Sopko from Orwigsburg for the story “Hermie’s Adventure”

Second Place:
Kindergarten: Elizabeth Boop from Mifflinburg for the story “Animal Adventure”
1st Grade: Margaret Haines from Madison Township for the story “The Tale of a Bee”
2nd Grade: Abigail Burrell from Bloomsburg for the story “The Dog Who Couldn't Find His Bone”
3rd Grade: Sydney Lescowitch from McAdoo for the story “The Color Changing Lion”

Third Place:
1st Grade: Emily Hunsicker from Nesquehoning for the story “The Dinosaur That Didn't Want to Go to School”
2nd Grade: Carly Pawloski from Hudson for the story “Daisy and the Science Project”
3rd Grade: Molly Gill from Lewisburg for the story “Lucy Lope”

2010-2011 Winners

Kindergarten
Captain Awesome and the Pickle Army by Owen Murphy

1st Grade
A Island Far Away by Esther Brownstein

2nd Grade
Video Game Adventure by Jacob DiMento

3rd Grade
The Big, Blue, Unbouncy Bowling Ball by Karen Gibson

This television campaign, conceptualized by NEIU 19, is designed to call attention to high school students who have excelled in the study of the arts. The partnering high school selects two students, one visual artist and one performing artist, who will be interviewed at the WVIA studios for a 1-minute vignette. The Artist of the Week spot showcases the student, high school, and school district and salutes them for their artistic achievement and will be aired on WVIA TV for one week and will be available here on wvia.org for one year. That artist will receive a copy of their performance and then be in the running to compete for Artist of the Year and honored on our Scholastic Achievement Awards Show in May. For students in Grades 10-12

2011-2012 Artists of the Week

Week of July 1 - July 7, 2012

Adam Zapotok Hanover

Kayla Franckiewicz Coughlin

Week of June 24 - June 30, 2012

Riley Thomas Wyoming Area

Katie Cokely Elk Lake

Week of June 17 - June 23, 2012

Madison Schott Forest City

Eli Sauls Forest City

Week of June 10 - June 16, 2012

Jessica Wolfe Benton

Leah Bergstrom Benton

Week of June 3 - June 9, 2012

Ben Ikeler Millville

Lea Bogart Millville

Week of May 27 - June 2, 2012

Laura Palmer Weatherly

Desiree Weichman Weatherly

Week of May 20 - May 26, 2012

Alicia Kulick North Pocono

Tyler Byron Mid Valley

Week of May 13 - May 19, 2012

Kayla Phillips Lakeland

Askley Bohn Lakeland

Week of May 6 - May 12, 2012

Rainy Prichett Riverside

Week of April 29 - May 5, 2012

Tama Edgar Blue Ridge

Kristen Brown Blue Ridge

Week of April 22 - April 28, 2012

Janet Rosa GAR

Ryan Pavone GAR

Week of April 15 - April 21, 2012

Chelsea Martin Dallas

Rebecca Stull Dallas

Week of April 8 - April 14, 2012

Elizabeth Godusky Old Forge

Karlie Brace Old Forge

Week of April 1 - April 7, 2012

Jason Klus Wyoming Valley West

Zachary Wood Wyoming Valley West

Week of March 25 - March 31, 2012

Shannon Myers Western Wayne

Steven Trygar Western Wayne

Week of March 18 - March 24, 2012

Karla McCormick Wallenpaupack

Lisa Rogali Wallenpaupack

Week of March 11 - March 17, 2012

Matthew Prusinski Valley View

Emily Ketz Valley View

Week of March 4 - March 10, 2012

Lydia Young Southern Columbia

Kayla Bobber Southern Columbia

Week of February 26 - March 3, 2012

Carmelitta Oakley Mountain View

Melissa Walker Mountain View

Week of February 19 - February 25, 2012

Francesca Damiano Selinsgrove

Aliza Miller Selinsgrove

Week of February 12 - February 18, 2012

Nathan Young Milton

Monica Hepburn Milton

Week of February 5 - February 11, 2012

Callum Gasteiger Lewisburg

Patrick Corrigan Lewisburg

Week of January 29 - February 4, 2012

Katlyn Jumper Pittston

Lizz Raffa Pittston

Week of January 22 - January 28, 2012

Ryan Ordnung Honesdale

Zoe Zurad Honesdale

Week of January 15 - January 21, 2012

Cody Yeager Mt. Carmel

Dylan Matukaitis Mt. Carmel

Week of January 8 - January 14, 2012

Matt Montella Abington Heights

Melissa Keisling Abington Heights

Week of January 1 - January 7, 2012

Erica Dee Dunmore

Greg Eibach Dunmore

Week of December 25 - December 31, 2011

Tyler Mariano Hazleton

Colin Schaeffer Hazleton

Week of December 18 - December 24, 2011

Kara Schneikart Coughlin

Alexander Marino Myers

Week of December 11 - December 17, 2011

Marina Daniel Scranton

Nicole Chekan Scranton

Week of December 4 - December 10, 2011

Vincenzo Sicurella Lake-Lehman

Gabrielle Gilroy Mid Valley

Week of November 27 - December 3, 2011

Morgan Ofsharick Susquehanna

Lauren Marco Susquehanna

Week of November 20 - 26, 2011

Frankie VanNostrand Montrose

Amanda Rucker Montrose

Week of November 13 - 19, 2011

Brianne Tomko Nanticoke Area

Justin Chalker Nanticoke Area

 

 

 

2010-11 Artists of the Year

Juan Huertero Coughlin

Brooke Walker North Pocono

2009-10 Artists of the Year

Phoebe Olsommer Western Wayne

Donna Yocum Hazleton

 

Sundays @ 7pm on WVIA-TV
Also available on WVIA On Demand - Click here

This high school academic quiz show, produced in partnership with NEIU 19, challenges top students from WVIA’s member school districts about all academic disciplines. Contestants try to answer questions more quickly than members of the opposite team. At the end of the Scholastic Scrimmage season the winning school is awarded $5,000, with second place receiving $3,000 and third place receiving $1,000. The winning team also receives medals, a plaque for their high school's trophy case, and the bragging rights of being the very best.
Grades 9-12

Funding provided by:

 

 

2011-2012 Scholastic Scrimmage Brackets
NEIU 19 Bracket
LIU 18 Bracket
CSIU 16/CLIU 21

Hazleton, the 2010-2011 Champions, celebrate their win as their advisor receives the 1st place prize of $5,000 from sponsor Chesapeake Energy.

 

 

 

 

Check out this video -- An inside look at the set-up for a taping of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage

 

 

 

 

WVIA and The Pennsylvania College of Technology are proud to present the 15th annual Making A Difference: Great Teachers Essay Contest. Our goal is to showcase teachers who have made a difference in the lives of their students. We solicited essays of 500 words or less from high school seniors, highlighting a teacher who has had a significant effect on their academic and personal lives at any point during their school career. $500 will be awarded to each of the winning students.

15th Annual Making A Difference: Great Teachers Essay Contest Winners (2011-2012 school year)

Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16:
First Place: Jess Genovesi, Southern Columbia Area

Second Place: Tracey Galada, Weatherly Area
Third Place: Trisha Wilcox, Millville Area

 

Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18:
First Place: Alexa Gorski, Greater Nanticoke Area

Second Place: Sarah Bilski, Dallas
Third Place: Paul Gestle, Pittston Area

 

Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19:
First Place: Leah Cameron, Wallenpaupack

Second Place: Marck Soltis, Valley View
Third Place: Amber Sherman, West Scranton

 

If you have an questions, please contact WVIA's Director of Education, Andrea O'Neill at 570-602-1182.

Initiated by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, the event is a nationwide annual Art Competition that allows high school students from the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and territories to showcase their artistic ability. WVIA is proud to host the qualification for Congressmen Lou Barletta and Tom Marino for the 10th and 11th Congressional Districts. The First Place student from each district and his/her immediate family will travel to Washington, DC for the Artistic Discovery Exhibition Opening, where they will have their artwork displayed for one year in our nation’s Capitol building.

An Artistic Discovery

Lou Barletta (R) District 11

Tom Marino (R) District 10

2011-2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the Congressional Arts Competition, An Artistic Discovery. The competition is open to all high school students nationwide and the winner from each district will have his/her artwork displayed for one year in our nation’s Capitol building.

ALL SUBMISSIONS to the 2011-2012 Congressional Arts Competition must be submitted to WVIA as part of our Artist Celebration. All completed forms and artwork must be dropped off at the WVIA studios in Pittston, PA by 4:30pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012.

All entrants in the 2011-12 competition will be invited to attend the Artists Celebration on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at WVIA to see their work hung in a gallery-like setting. The winner from each district will be announced that afternoon.

To view the 2012 Congressional Art Competition Guidelines Click here.
For more information on the competition on a national level visit http://www.house.gov/content/educate/art_competition/.

Congratulations to the 2012 Winners:
Amanda Martin, Dallas from the 10th District and Zachary Wood, Edwardsville from the 11th District.

2011 Winners:

Zachary Wood from Edwardsville (District 11 winner)

Abby Carmody of Waymart (District 10 winner)

 

2010 Winners:
Laura Madiera of Dallas for Congressman Carney’s 10th district.

 

Corrinne Remetta from Dunmore for Congressman Kanjorski’s 11th District.

 

2009• 2008

In order to participate, students must reside in one of the two congressional districts. Collectively, the two districts include all or portions of the following counties:
Bradford/Tioga | Carbon | Columbia | Dauphin | Lackawanna | Luzerne | Lycoming | Monroe | Montour | Northumberland | Perry | Pike | Sullivan | Snyder | Susquehanna | Union | Wayne | Wyoming

Click here for map of the 10th congressional district
Click here for map of the 11th congressional district

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WVIA offers free video duplication for any program that WVIA airs and has the rights to duplicate. These include national programs that educators have found invaluable over the years such as Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, NOVA, NewsHour and Independent Lens – and, those produced right here at WVIA such as State of Pennsylvania, Call the Doctor, or any of our documentary films such as Looking to the River, Gino Merli: Healing Hero or The Extraordinary Journey. Grades K-12

Order videos

The PBS Video Portal features 150 hours of full-length episodes from iconic PBS programs, with more content being added every week with Search, browse by Topic, and explore curated Collections as well as links to purchase episodes on DVD from ShopPBS (or buy from iTunes) and Ability to share videos via email and popular social networks.

WVIA Podcasts

WVIA Broadcast Schedule

Scholastic Education Consortium
WVIA has the rights to various Scholastic titles, with hundreds of episodes for grades K-6.  Educators can access previews of the videos and select study guides available for download from the link above.  From Animals and How They Live to Safe Driving, educators can find useful ideas on any number of topics.

WVIA Public Media YouTube Channel

Take your students on a field trip without ever leaving the classroom!

Every electronic field trip takes you and your students into the daily lives of early Americans. These live, once a month programs air from October through April are a one-hour dramatic presentation that gives students the opportunity to experience actual restoration and rebuilding of houses, explore rural traditions and witness the final spark that united the colonies against Great Britain. Throughout the broadcast, actors portray historical events through the use of primary source documents and materials. WVIA typically acquires up to 8 complete scholarships for these events that we pass on to member districts. These include teacher guides and the opportunity for students to interact with the hosts in realtime through the internet or telephone. Past titles include: “The Will of the People”, “In Pursuit of Science”, “Freedom Bound”, “Remember the Ladies” and “Yorktown” Grades 5-9

WVIA still has seven free trips available for the 10-11 school year! Call Andrea O’Neill at (570) 602-1182 or email before they are all gone.

Women of the Revolution (premiere)
March 10, 2011
Bravery. Loyalty. Sacrifice. Women of the Revolution possessed all of these qualities. Explore the excitement, peril, and individual stories of Deborah Sampson, Mary Perth, Martha Washington, and other women, on both sides of the conflict, who proved their mettle in America’s war for independence.

Making History Live
April 7, 2011
What makes history come alive? Take a behind-the-scenes look at how historical African American character portrayals are created for Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area. From research through performance, experienced museum interpreters share their techniques for bringing the past to life.

For more information and resources from Colonial Williamsburg, click here

Your resouce to what’s happening and what’s available from WVIA and PBS

There are so many resources that WVIA not only creates and offers, but has access to because we are a PBS affiliate. These resources often go unused because educators do not know they are available. We act as a filter, finding and researching different educational resources that are made available to us, and then putting out a bi-monthly newsletter that showcases what is available for teachers from all over the nation and the web.
Grades K-12

November 2011

Archieved newsletters

• November 2010 edition
• Teachers Back 2010 edition
• Spring 2010
• February 2010
• November 2009
• September 2009
• March 2009
• Elementary-March 2009
• February 2009
• January 2009
• November 2008
• October 2008

 

The Arts Arts Everywhere • Music in Every Classroom

Health and Fitness Community Health • Healthy Choices

Reading and Language Arts Great American Authors • Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Science and Technology Breakthroughs in Medical Research • How's the Weather? • Earth Day • Innovation and Invention • Forensic Science

Social Studies American Identity • Indigenous Cultures • Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders • Patriotism • China • Politics and Art • Citizenship • Religious Diversity in America • Constitutional Controversies • Studying Genocide • Crime and Justice • The Presidency • Everyone's Business • Unsung Heroes in African American History • Global Population • Women's Rights: Then and Now • Immigration • World Religions • In the News

Below are additional resources from PBS and other stations that educators from our member school districts may find useful. If you have a link or another resource you would like to share, or would like more information on any of the following resources, please email Andrea O’Neill at andreao’neill@wvia.org.

Other Useful PBS Resources:

Jane Austen English Literature Teacher Guide
Uses the Masterpiece Theatre Jane Austen series to teach English Literature. Guides include summaries and activity suggestions

The War Veterans History Project Field Guide and Toolkit
Contains tips for conducting interviews of war veterans, including question suggestions, how to setup the interview, equipment needed and all guidelines and data forms necessary to submit the interview to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project

Global Grover
This preschool caregiver guide explores cultures, traditions, people and places from around the world. Written in both English and Spanish

PBS Families
WVIA has many issues of this short kids magazine, ranging in topics from music to art to health and wellness to how best to spend TV time. For grades preK-2. Certain issues are available in both English and Spanish.

Mister Rogers: What to Do with the Mad You Feel?
A small brochure that helps parents, teachers and kids to sort out and verbalize those feelings and cope with anger.

Its a Big Big World Posters
Helps elementary students become active in being good stewards of the Earth

Scholastic Education Television Consortium
WVIA is proud to be a part of the Scholastic Education Television Consortium and has acquired the rights to 60 Scholastic titles, with hundreds of episodes for grades K-12. These educational programs, accessed by contacting Andrea O’Neill, are available with select study guides and are delivered to teachers on DVD. Titles range from Animals and How they Live to Safe Driving. Click here for more information.

Other Fun Stuff
WVIA has many bookmarks, posters, stickers and other fun stuff featuring PBS characters and productions. Great for teacher prize boxes, goodie bags or classroom deocoration.

Tour the WVIA Studios located in Pittston, PA
See how a television and radio station works. Take your students through the process of documentary creation. Explore career possibilities from TV Production to Marketing and Financing to Communication. Contact Andrea O’Neill (570 602-1182) to schedule a tour for high school students or Debby Konnick, WVIA Clubhouse Mom (570 602-1127) to schedule a tour for elementary students and scouting groups.