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Electrician: I Can Be What?!

 

How do the lights in your bedroom turn on and off? Who changes the street lights or the lights in a stadium? An electrician. 

An electrician is a person who installs, operates, maintains, or repairs electric devices or electrical wiring. Jen digs in and works with an electrician to learn all about how she can install a light, change an outlet, and how electricians work both on teams and independently. 

The Electrician Video
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Support Materials
Use the resources below to help keep your kids learning – asking questions, learning new words, and exploring connected resources!

Discussion Questions

  • Do you like having a schedule or a routine?
  • Would you prefer to work inside or outside?
  • Does every house or building have a circuit breaker?
  • What’s the difference between 2-prong and 3-prong outlets?
  • Are you afraid of heights?
  • What kinds of tools have you used?
  • Do you work well on a team? Or do you like working more independently?

More Electrician & Electricity Resources
These resources are from public media partner organizations – they’re educational, trustworthy, and will help you and your child learn more.

Helicopter Pilot: I Can Be What?!

 

You’ve heard of an airline pilot, but what about a helicopter pilot? Jen meets a special kind of helicopter pilot who helps in emergencies. 

Ambulances help transport people to hospitals if they are injured. In this episode, Jen meets a medical helicopter pilot who helps people get to the hospital faster than any ground transport. 

Helicopter Video Pilot
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Support Materials
Use the resources below to help keep your kids learning – asking questions, learning new words, and exploring connected resources!

Discussion Questions

  • Can helicopter pilots fly other planes?
  • Can airplane pilots fly helicopters?
  • Why does the weather impact whether a helicopter can fly or not?
  • Do airplanes have to balance like helicopters?
  • Helicopter pilots need to know a lot of technical words. 
  • Are the crews the same on a medical helicopter and an ambulance?
  • Why do you think it’s important to stabilize a patient before driving or flying?

More Helicopter and Pilot Resources
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Diesel Mechanic: I Can Be What?!

 

Diesel Mechanic Video
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Mechanics work on cars, trucks, and vans, but who works on BIG trucks like tractor trailers, garbage trucks, or ambulances? Jen meets up with a diesel mechanic who owns a fleet repair shop where he works on and maintains large vehicles.

Support Materials
Use the resources below to help keep your kids learning – asking questions, learning new words, and exploring connected resources!

Discussion Questions

  • Why are tires on vehicles all different sizes?
  • Do you think it would be easy or hard to roll a tire?
  • What does it mean to balance a tire?
  • Do you use checklists for any of your work?
  • How do you keep track of all your tasks?
  • What’s the difference between a mechanic and a diesel mechanic?
  • Do you think the computers inside of a vehicle are the same as the computers you use?
  • What kinds of things can you take apart and put back together?

More Diesel & Mechanic Resources
These resources are from public media partner organizations – they’re educational, trustworthy, and will help you and your child learn more.

Fantastic New York • On-Demand

Discover the Fantastic New York you never knew!

The mystery, the adventure, the surprise and delight behind some of our state’s most intriguing people, sites and stories.

Watch the First Episode: Fantastic New York: Boldt Castle: Fresh off of producing the award-winning documentary, Journeys Through the Finger Lakes, WXXI Public Media producers and hosts Jason Milton and Katie Epner dig deeper to divulge the enduring stories that embody the strange and unique personality of our state. Discover the Fantastic New York you never knew and experience the crazy history lesson you always wish you had.

Teaching Women’s Suffrage History

WXXI celebrates Women’s History and Heritage. We proudly feature moments in women’s history that had their roots and connections to Rochester. Watch On-Demand and also see the profiles on WXXI-TV. 

Explore the contributions of national and local people that contributed to women’s rights and learn about their roots in Rochester. 

WATCH ALL PROFILES IN THIS PLAYLIST

More Resources:

Teaching Women’s Suffrage is a PBS LearningMedia collection of video clips, lesson plans, and primary sources details key figures, events, and regional movements of the decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. Students will encounter activists including Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Grace Abbott, and examine key regional efforts within the movement. Primary source documents offer evidence for a study of the chronology of campaign for women’s suffrage, from the movement’s beginnings through the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Go to the Collection > 

Training as a Nurse in High School & Beyond

 

You can train for an nursing career while still in high school.

Exploring nursing and medical careers can begin in high school through career technical education. The program allows training while in high school, and gaining work experience through internships and co-ops to gain their certification. 75% of graduates go on to work part-time and further medical training to become LPNs or RNs through 2 year and 4 year training programs. Programs are also available as part of Adult Education, community college and college/university programs. 

Research Career Areas: Ask about training dollars and scholarships or on-the-job training programs

Career Coach (MCC) Explore regional nursing career descriptions, education requirements & salary levels

How COVID-19 Caused a Nursing Shortage and Inspired a New Generation of New Nurses (WXXI News) 

Job Postings for  related jobs

URMC Affiliated Hospital Nursing Job Listings & Nursing School

Rochester Regional Health Nursing Career Programs

Training Programs for High School Students, College Students, On-the Job Training and Certificates

High School Level Programs
Monroe 2 BOCES

Genesee Valley BOCES

Monroe 1 BOCES Eastern Monroe Career Center

Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES

Training Programs in Adult Education

Monroe 2 BOCES Center for Workforce Development

Genesee Valley BOCES

Monroe 1 BOCES: Can attend high school level classes (see above)

Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES Health Careers

Rochester Educational Opportunity Center (SUNY Brockport): Programs including Health Careers

Training programs in at Community Colleges

Bachelor’s Degree Programs & Beyond:

Education Resources for Teaching About Save Haven

Safe Haven

Classroom Discussion Guide. Download PDF here.

In 1944, 982 refugees from 18 European countries were brought to the United States as guests of President Franklin Roosevelt.

FDR agreed to admit this small token group in lieu of a much larger plan to create many safe havens all over the country and bring in possibly hundreds of thousands of refugees. The camp was Fort Ontario Army Camp in Oswego, NY. Through interviews with former refugees and archival footage, Safe Haven, tells the story of America’s only refugee shelter for Holocaust victims. Robert Clary, a former refugee, hosts.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of this WXXI production in 2017, Safe Haven was written and produced by Paul Lewis. In 1987 the documentary received a Peabody Award, with jurors congratulating the production team for “making a particularly timely statement about the undercurrent of racism and bigotry which afflict all governments. “Paul and other special guests were in studio before and after the documentary with Need to Know host Hélène Biandudi Hofer to talk about the production and share personal stories about working on the film. See the Need to Know special on the documentary to learn more.

Listen the Connections podcast 4/27/17 about the documentary.

WXXI News Articles on 75th Anniversary:

Israeli ambassador, Holocaust refugees, families, thank Oswego for Fort Ontario shelter (8/6/2019)

Holocaust refugees in Oswego for 75th anniversary of their arrival (8/5/2019)

The legacy of Oswego’s Safe Haven is its Lessons (8/9/2019) via WRVO

Other Resources for Teaching About the Holocaust:

Getting Started Guide: Teaching About the Holocaust (7-12 grades) from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and FirstBook

Education Resources from: The U.S. and the Holocaust

Latino Americans Series Classroom Resources

Resources from the PBS Latino-Americans, a three-part documentary series chronicling the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos over the past 500 years.

Resources from the program include:

Latino Americans Series PBS LearningMedia Collection

Explore The Series Website (English & Spanish)

Latino Americans is led by Emmy Award-winning series producer Adriana Bosch anddocuments the evolution of a new “Latino American” identity from the 1500s to the present day, featuring interviews with close to 100 Latinos from the worlds of politics, business and pop culture — including Herman Badillo, Dolores Huerta, Gloria Estefan and Rita Moreno — as well as deeply personal portraits of lesser-known Latinos who lived through key chapters in American history.

“In six episodes of first-rate television, LATINO AMERICANS covers centuries of history about native-born Latinos and immigrants from throughout the Americas,” said Bosch, a Cuban-born filmmaker whose previous PBS projects include LATIN MUSIC U.S.A. and a number of documentaries for the series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. “We do not shy away from addressing key issues of legitimacy, justice, discrimination and the very meaning of citizenship. The series has great cinematography, incisive interviews, evocative archive materials — but what I am most proud of is that we were able to tell history in the first person. Latino Americans is history ‘con nombre y apellido’ — with first and last name. And that is what makes our stories compelling and profoundly human.”

The diversity of the Latino American experience is reflected in both the on-camera interview subjects and the filmmaking staff. The production team, most of who are Latino Americans, includes individuals who are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran and Dominicans heritage, among others. In addition to Bratt as the narrator, the musical score for Latino Americans is by award-winning composers Joseph Julián González, a native of California’s Central Valley of Mexican descent, and Claudio Ragazzi, a native of Argentina; and the acclaimed singer-songwriter Lila Downs, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, will serve as the featured artist for the series, performing the closing song in Latino Americans.

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