Cable in The Classroom

Cable in the Classroom was created to help educators take advantage of commercial free educational programming. Typically, these programs are broadcast very early in the morning or on weekends, so many people are not aware of all that is available.

This programming is ideal for a home educator, particularly if you have a TiVo or other recording device. Generally, most educational programming is licensed to be copied and kept for one year for use in a classroom or homeschool setting. I set our TiVo to record educational programming every day, and then I select lesson plans from among those programs. There are lessons available for many different subjects, from Science, to Social Studies, to Language Arts, Heath, and more. TiVo also recently announced that they will be adding a new feature called TiVo Kidzone, to make it easier to find and record educational programming.

Cable in the Classroom's Magazine, Access Learning provides programming guides and lesson plans, and learning resources for these programs.

A&E Classroom is broadcast, commercial free, every weekday morning. The classroom calendar with associated lesson plans is posted on their site. They also have several hundred teaching guides that correspond with A&E Videos and DVDs.

The History Channel, also provides a commercial free hour of educational programming every weekday morning. They also have an online classroom calendar with associated lesson plans, when available. Like A&E, they have study guides available that correspond to History Channel Videos.

Discovery School offers free lesson plans and other teaching materials that correspond with Discovery Channel's educational programming.

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