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

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

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

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. 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 - 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)

 

 

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 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

To watch individual games from the 2011-2012 competition click on the links below
Valley View vs Wallenpaupack
Dunmore vs North Pocono
Mountain View vs Elk Lake
Lakeland vs Wallenpaupack
Mid Valley vs Susquehanna
Western Wayne vs Abington Heights
Blue Ridge vs Old Forge
Montrose vs Dunmore
Riverside vs Honesdale
Scranton vs West Scranton
Mountain View vs Forest City

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.

To review the 15th annual Making A Difference: Great Teachers Essay Contest flyer click here
Click here to review the rubric for the contest.

The 14th annual Making A Difference: Great Teachers Essay Contest winners and runners up were:
Click on their name to read their essay

CSIU
Winner - Aaron Yustat from Benton

Runner-up - Jeanne Masich from Benton

LIU
Winner - Elissa Jennings from Tunkhannock

Runner-up - Ashley Shotwell from Tunkhannock

NEIU
Winner - Elizabeth Dannon from Honesdale

Runner-up - Patrick Dardrymple from 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, courtesy of the Times Leader and Go Lackawanna, 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 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.

In the 2010-2011 competition, the winner for each district received a trip courtesy of the Times Leader and Go Lackawanna to Washington D.C. to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony in the beginning of June 2011 and see their work hung in the US Capitol.

To review the 2011 Congressional Art Competition Guidelines Click here

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.