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 Millville Area School District Mount Carmel School District Southern Columbia Area School District Danville Area School District Selinsgrove Area School District

Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 Dallas School District Greater Nanticoke Area School District 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 North Pocono 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

Last year over 1,000 young writers and illustrators from WVIA’s coverage area entered the Young Writers and Illustrators Contest. Click on any 1st place book cover for a video of the story


2009 Winners



Kindergarten

First Place: The Little Girl Who Likes Shopping by Taylor Kline, Mountaintop

Second Place: The Race to Planet Funny by Haliegh Murphy

Third Place: Pepper Picks a Friend by Christopher Yanuzzi

First Grade

First Place: Luna Goes Grey by Grace Menko

Second Place: My Dance Teacher by Mary Grow

Third Place: The Dog and the Cat by Madison Nestor

Second Grade

First Place: The Lying Cat by Sabrina Barner

Second Place: My Favorite Farm Animals by Evelyn Gibson

Third Place: Lilly the Snowbunny by Jessica Gale

Third Grade

First Place: Winter Wows by Kiera Feeley

Second Place: The Trip to the Jungle by Emily Covert

Third Place: It Wasn’t Me! by Joshua Dann

WVIA and the Pennsylvania College of Technology have teamed up to create informative DVDs 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 here. Contact Andrea O’Neill at (570) 602-1182 with any questions. To date, the completed and available DVDs and curriculum are listed below:

Degrees That Work Series Available for Duplication Degrees that Work #101: Nanotechnology Degrees that Work #102: Welding Degrees that Work: #103: Advanced Manufaturing Degrees that Work: #104: Plastics

Degrees That Work Series Available Curriculm Guidance Counselor Series – Nanotechnology Science Teacher Series – Naotechnology Technology education Series – Nanotechnology Counselor Series – Welding Careers 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

Watch The 08-09 Artist of The Week videos by clicking the logo below:

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

2009-2010 Broadcast Schedule

Week of March 8-March 14, 2010

Shawni Scott Lake Lehman

Kiri Koziol Lake Lehman

Week of March 1-March 7, 2010

Gabrielle Gilroy Mid Valley

Carrie Stanton Mid Valley

Week of Feb. 22-Feb. 28, 2010

Katherine Conklin Blue Ridge

Alex Burkett Blue Ridge

Week of Feb. 15-Feb. 21, 2010

Thomas Dent Millville

Sarah Solomon Millville

Week of Feb. 8-Feb. 14, 2010

Chesly Zelasko Nanticoke

Keri Height Nanticoke

Week of Feb. 1-Feb. 7, 2010

Samantha Glevick West Scranton

Jimmy Losavich West Scranton

Week of Jan. 25-Jan 31, 2010

Christta Giannetti Mountain View

Cody Mack Mountain View

Week of Jan. 18-Jan 24, 2010

Nancy Dennehy Danville

Andrea Burleigh Forest City

Week of Jan. 11-Jan 17, 2010

Valerie Bendas Mt Carmel

Carissa Pupo Mt. Carmel

Week of Jan. 4-Jan 10, 2010

Grace Wazowicz Scranton

Lizzie Sallusti Scranton

Week of Dec. 28, 2009-Jan 3, 2010

Caitlin Bernoskie Wyoming Area

Kelsey Lee Tunkhannock

Week of Dec. 21-Dec. 27, 2009

Allison Welling Pittston Area

Jennifer O'Hop Pittston Area

Week of Dec. 14-Dec. 20, 2009

Danielle Greenwald Wyoming Valley West

Alexandra Frisbie Wyoming Valley West

Week of Dec. 7 - Dec. 13, 2009

Jennifer Beierle Hanover Area

Michael Redick Hanover Area

Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 2009

Diana Olsheski Wallenpaupack Area

Karsten Goodwin Wallenpaupack Area

Week of Nov. 23-29, 2009

Steven Zerbe Selingsgrove High School

Katie Richards Selingsgrove High School

Week of Nov. 15-22, 2009

Elijahbleu Price Dallas High School

Dave Balmer Dallas High School

Week of Nov. 8-14, 2009

Emily Carr Dunmore High School

Melissa Frick Dunmore High School

 

Sundays @ 7pm on WVIA-TV
It is that time of year again and we are once again ready to tape another season of Scholastic Scrimmage. Look for the Broadcast Schedule coming soon!

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 and brightest" in our viewing area. In addition, students will be invited to watch the next game from “behind the scenes” in production control to observe how a show is taped. All students and their advisors receive a copy of the show.
Grades 9-12

Click here for the competition bracket for the Central Susquehanna Intermidiate Unit 16 schools
Click here for the competition bracket for the Luzerne Intermidiate Unit 18 schools
Click here for the competition bracket for the Northeastern Educational Intermidiate Unit 19 schools

Over 150 high school seniors participated in the 2009 Making a Difference: Great Teachers Essay Contest. Seniors write essays about the teacher who has made a difference in their life. WVIA will award a $500 scholarship to one student from each member intermediate units represented in our coverage area and invite them to be featured on our live, televised Scholastic Achievement Awards Show in May. The teachers, who receive certificates of recognition, will also be featured.  Grade 12 only.

The 2009-2010 Great Teachers Essay Contest is taking submissions.
Deadline for entries - March 5, 2010
Winners will be notified by March 12, 2010
ALL ENTRIES must be submitted VIA EMAIL as a Microsoft Word document to andreao'neill@wvia.org
Click Here for contest rules and Click Here for the contest category list.

Congratulations to the 2008-2009 winners of the Great Teachers Essay Contest.
Each received a $500 scholarship and they along with their teachers were honored on the WVIA Scholastic Achievement Award Show.

Devin Smith from Blue Ridge: Click here to read Devin's winning essay
Christine Candelora from Mount Carmel: Click here to read Christine's winning essay

Click their names to share in Devin and Christine's experience

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 Chris Carney and Paul Kanjorski 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, where they will have their artwork displayed for one year in our nation’s Capitol building.

An Artistic Discovery

Paul E. Kanjorski D-District 11

Chris Carney D-District 10

This year marks the 28th anniversary of the Congressional Arts Competition, An Artistic Discovery. The 2010 Congressional Arts 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.

This year, our entrants for the Congressional Art Competition and our visual art students from Artist of the Week will be invited to display their work in the WVIA studios on May 2, 2010 for an event open to the public. From 1pm to 1:30pm, we'll have some refreshments and artwork will be displayed in the WVIA PNC Studio. From 1:30pm to 2:30pm, the top 10 performing artists of the week will perform in WVIA's Sordoni Theater. Then everyone will return to the PNC Studio for refreshments and await the judges' decisions. Again, this gallery of art and concert will be open to the public.

Below are the forms and guidelines for the Congressional Arts Competition.
2010 Congressional Arts Guidelines
2010 Congressional Arts Release Form
2010 Congressional Arts Consent and Release

Entry forms must be faxed to Andrea O'Neill at (570) 602-1182 no later than April 9.
All artwork must be dropped off at the WVIA studios in Pittston, PA no later than Wednesday, April 28 during the hours of 9am -5pm. Please make sure the student release form is filled out and taped to the back of each piece. WVIA Consent forms must also be signed to have their work displayed in the PNC Studio.
**To be eligible for the Congressional Arts Competition you must RESIDE in either Congressman Carney's or Kanjorski's district (PA 10th or 11th).
***PLEASE indicate which district on the form

The winner for each district will receive a trip courtesy of the Times Leader to Washington D.C. for the reception on June 17, 2010 to see their work hang in the Capitol Building.

Any questions please contact Andrea O'Neill at (570) 602-1182

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 eight free trips available for the 09-10 school year! Call Andrea O’Neill at (570) 602-1182 or email before they are all gone.

Emissaries of Peace
October 15, 2009
During the turbulent era of the French and Indian War, the Cherokee people struggled to preserve their independence. Follow Cherokee leader Ostenaco and Virginian Henry Timberlake on their 1762 journey from Chota (the capital of the Cherokee nation) to Williamsburg and London in search of a lasting peace.

A More Perfect Union
November 19, 2009
Witness the conflict and compromise that accompanied the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Join young eighteenth-century observers, unseen by convention delegates, as they travel from state to state tallying the vote. Learn about the ratification process and Americans’ growing interest in their fledgling nation’s new government.

Jamestown Unearthed
December 10, 2009
Take a look at how history is written and reevaluated as new methods of study are introduced. Using the example of Jamestown in 1607, explore the myths and misconceptions of that era: revisit the documents, artifacts, and other evidence through archaeology. Learn how every generation sees the evidence in new ways, and how this affects our understanding of the past.

Westward!
January 14, 2010
Explore the story of the early days of American westward expansion. Daniel Boone recounts the exciting experiences and unexpected consequences associated with moving west. Learn about the risks and grueling personal hardships of creating new settlements.

The Slave Trade
February 11, 2010
Beginning with the American Revolution, this program explores the U.S. law of 1807 that abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Meet the people who were involved in or influenced by this pivotal legislation: the slaves, plantation owners, slave-ship captains, common seamen, government officials, Navy officers, and anti-slavery activists.

The Rights of Youth
March 11, 2010
Imprisonment, whipping, forced transportation, and even death were some of the punishments that courts sentenced children to in the eighteenth century. Witness how justice was administered at a time when criminal laws and sentencing guidelines made few

Treasure Keepers
April 22, 2010
You have seen their work in every museum, but what do conservators really do? Learn how conservators prevent or slow the damage caused by “agents of destruction.” Explore how and why preserving history is important for future generations.

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

February 2010 edition

Archieved newsletters

• 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.