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Classroom kits are available to help your teachers teach groups of elementary school-aged children, campers, and their parents. Inquire with the WFSU Education team for more information on purchasing the kits for your workshop, classroom, or camp. Each of these kits is also available to download for free on PBS LearningMedia.
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It’s no secret that WFSU Public Media prides itself on its history of providing quality educational programs to schools and centers across its viewing area and that a major driving force behind that work is the incredible content and support provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Ready To Learn legacy.
For decades, our team has been providing this rich curriculum to you—classroom teachers, school administrators, and parents—for free, with only an ask that you give us your honest feedback so that we can work to improve our programming from the ground up. Now you have an opportunity to take our tried-and-true curriculum and run with it yourself, this time with all the extra bells and whistles.
Below you can find a list of some of our favorite programs we’ve implemented, turned into Ready To Learn readymade kits for you to share with your classroom or community. Kits are sold in sets of 10, plus a teacher facilitator guide. Prices are set by PBS and range from $60-$80 per camper plus shipping and handling. Reach out to us if you’re interested in learning more or placing an order! Please email tweinstein@fsu.edu .
Camp Materials
The Ready To Learn camps WFSU Public Media’s Education team have provided to the north Florida region have always been a hit, whether provided during Summer break or in after-school environments, fully online or in-person. In keeping with Ready To Learn tradition, all of the content is standards-aligned and community-driven, with stations like ours test-driving them for iterations before they are published for consumption for free by the public.
If you want to take your camp experience a step further, you can now purchase comprehensive kits including special extras such as beautiful copies of the intentionally integrated books for your students, official Odd Squad agent badges, plushies, and more. Check out some of the current offerings below, and reach out to us if you have any questions or would like to pursue placing an order!
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Ruff Ruffman Camp
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This kit contains components for 10 campers and a facilitator. Available in English.
The Ruff Ruffman Camp is a five-day camp experience designed for 5 to 8-year-olds. Kids will engage in scientific inquiry and engineering design processes with Ruff Ruffman and his friends. The camp will integrate video, games, and hands-on activities to provide kids with opportunities to play, build, explore, and learn together while getting exposure and practice with the science inquiry and engineering design processes. View additional information on PBS’s website here.
COMPONENTS
- Facilitator Guide – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (x1)
- Certificate – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (x10)
- Curiosity Journal – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (x10)
- Parent Letters – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (x10)
- Parent Letters – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (Spanish) (x10)
- Ruff – Flashcards (x10)
- Ruff Plushies (x10)
- Table Conversation Tents – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (x10)
- Take Home Materials – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (x10)
- Take Home Materials – Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman (Spanish) (x10)
- “Ada Twist, Scientist” by Andrea Beaty (x10)
- “Beautiful Oops!” by Barney Saltzberg (x10)
- “Mix it Up” by Hervé Tullet (x10)
- “What Floats in a Moat?” by Lynne Berry (x10)
- “I Am Albert Einstein” by Brad Meltzer (x10)
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Odd Squad Camp
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This kit contains components for 10 campers and a facilitator. Available in English.
At the Odd Squad “Be the Agent Camp” children will take on the role of an Odd Squad Agent, just like the ones in the show. Campers will spend five days as Odd Squad agents, solving odd cases and creating useful gadgets by using teamwork, math knowledge, science inquiry practices, the engineering design process, and creativity.
COMPONENTS
- Odd Squad – Day 1 Camp Playbook (x1)
- Odd Squad – Day 2 Camp Playbook (x1)
- Odd Squad – Day 3 Camp Playbook (x1)
- Odd Squad – Day 4 Camp Playbook (x1)
- Odd Squad – Day 5 Camp Playbook (x1)
- Odd Squad – Facilitator Welcome Letter (x1)
- Odd Squad – Materials List (x1)
- Odd Squad – Engineering Design Process (x1)
- Odd Squad – Case of the Common Chris (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Return of Symmetric Al (x10)
- Odd Squad – Find Your Badge Number (x10)
- Odd Squad – Shape Quest (x10)
- Odd Squad – What Makes a Good Agent (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Case of The Doobles, Snoobles, and Oobles (x10)
- Odd Squad – Ms. O’s Coldest Cases (x10)
- Odd Squad – Color By Number (x10)
- Odd Squad – Find the Blob (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Tidal Wave of Tens (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Case of the Trophy Room Bandit (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Odd Squad Ten (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Case of the Centigurps That Keep Escaping (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Case of Places Trading (x10)
- Odd Squad – Odd Squad Quiz: Which Agent are You? (x10)
- Odd Squad – Odd Squad Number Line – Odd Squad (x10)
- Odd Squad – The Case of Ms. O’s Missing Badge (x10)
- Odd Squad – Who’s the Patternista? (x10)
- Odd Squad – Certificate of Achievement (x10)
- Odd Squad – Math Moments (x10)
- Odd Squad – Badge (x10)
- Odd Squad – Daily Parent Letter (x10)
- Odd Squad – Parent Welcome Letter (x10)
- Odd Squad – Daily Parent Letter (Spanish) (x10)
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Family & Community Learning
PBS KIDS and the Ready To Learn initiative have been collaborating with stations across the country to develop Family & Community Learning (FCL) workshop series since 2016, with the first series rolling out as a community outreach support for the cutting-edge kids’ coding app, PBS KIDS ScratchJR. WFSU Public Media’s Education & Engagement team has been piloting these programs with schools and libraries across Leon County and as far as Panama City since the very beginning, partnering with educators on the ground to provide valuable feedback up the ladder to the Ready To Learn team at PBS KIDS headquarters, and then help spread the word about the free resources as soon as they become available for public consumption.
The following workshop programs are available to purchase for your classroom, school, or community center, with support from our team available anytime, as always. Please reach out to tweinstein@fsu.edu to order.
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PBS KIDS ScratchJr.
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ScratchJr FCL is a way to demystify and explore STEM concepts as families engage in a fun, creative, and interest-driven learning environment. This FCL is designed for families with kids ages 5-8, the sessions use creative play and exploration to introduce kids and grown-ups to digital and tangible tools that can be used to develop science and engineering knowledge, practices, and perspectives. View additional information on PBS’s website.
Kits are only available through your local PBS Station (like WFSU!).
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The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That!
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This kit contains FCL components for 10 families and a facilitator for a series of four workshops. Available in English or Spanish.
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! FCL fosters learning science inquiry and the engineering and design process through hands-on and digital play. The Cat in the Hat Builds That! app is a free, bilingual (Spanish/English) mobile app designed to help parents and other caregivers of 3 to 5-year-olds actively engage with children to build science inquiry skills. View additional information on PBS’s website here.
Books for this kit were selected based on availability. Additional family bundles are available.
COMPONENTS
- Overview Guide (x1)
- CITH FCL – Facilitator Guide (x1)
- CITH FCL – Banner Visual Schedule (x1)
- CITH FCL – Center Signs (x1)
- CITH FCL – Grown-up Support Handouts (x10)
- CITH FCL – One-Pager Visual Schedule (x10)
- CITH FCL – Placemats (4-Pack) (x10)
- CITH FCL – At Home Connections Handouts (x10)
- IVE Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED eCard (x10)
- CITH FCL – Certificate (x10)
- CITH FCL – Nametag Template (x10)
- “A Book of Bridges: Here to There and Me to You” by Cheryl Keely (x10)
- “Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound” by Geoff Waring (x10)
- “Sort it Out” by Barbara Mariconda (x10)
- “Ten Black Dots” by Donald Crews (x10)
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Play & Learn Science
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This kit contains FCL components for 10 families and a facilitator for a series of four workshops. Available in English or Spanish.
Play & Learn Science! FCL fosters learning science inquiry and the engineering and design process through hands-on and digital play. The Play & Learn Science! app is a free, bilingual (Spanish/English) mobile app designed to help parents and other caregivers of 3 to 5-year-olds actively engage with children to build science inquiry skills. View additional information on PBS’s website here.
Books for this kit were selected based on availability. Additional family bundles are available.
COMPONENTS
- Overview Guide (x1)
- FCL Play and Learn – Facilitator Guide (x1)
- FCL Play and Learn – Visual Schedule (x1)
- Weather Session – Clothing Chart (x1)
- Weather Session – US Map (x1)
- FCL Play and Learn – Family Handout (x10)
- FCL Play and Learn – Placemats (4-Pack) (x10)
- FCL Play and Learn – Center Support Cards (x10)
- FCL Play and Learn – Take Home/Science-At-Home Materials (x10)
- FCL Play & Learn Certificate (x10)
- Water Session – Matching Cards 1 and 2 (x10)
- Shadows Session – Character Cards (x10)
- Shadows Session – Character Puppets (x10)
- Weather Season – Weather Cube (x10)
- Weather Session – Dress Up Dolls (x10)
- Weather Session – Backgrounds (x10)
- Weather Session – Thermometer Chart (x10)
- FCL Play & Learn – Weekly Weather Calendar (x10)
- “Hello, World! Weather (Board Book)” by Jill McDonald (x10)
- “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson (x10)
- “Oscar and the Cricket: A Book About Moving and Rolling” by Geoff Waring (x10)
- “Water Can Be” by Laura Purdie Salas (x10)
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