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Support Journalism | #GivingTuesday
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- Support Journalism | #GivingTuesday
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- 7 years ago
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- How will you join the movement this #GivingTuesday? On this international day of giving lend your voice, time, or dollar to help a cause you believe in.
Get ideas for giving: wskg.org/givingtuesday
Find out what's happening near you: http://www.givingtuesday.org/whats-happening-near-me
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- Who Your Donation Could Impact on #GivingTuesday
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- 7 years ago
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- November 28th, 2017 is #GivingTuesday, a day where individuals, communities, and organizations are encouraged to give their voices, dollars, and time to encourage and celebrate generosity.
At WSKG, we do much more than radio and TV--we're out in the community helping to boost educators and students. By giving them the tools they need to learn, work, and succeed. This Giving Tuesday we want to help more kids in our community succeed.
Learn how you can participate in #GivingTuesday by going to wskg.org.
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- Lamb Kabobs Recipe by Tracy Maines | Seasons at the Lake
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- 7 years ago
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- Learn how to cook Lamb Kabobs with Tracy Maines. For our Seasons at the Lake documentary, she invited us into her kitchen to show us how food plays a role in binding families and their vacation traditions together.
For the full recipe go to http://wskg.org/arts/learn-how-to-cook-lamb-kabobs-with-tracy-maines/
Seasons at the Lake premieres November 30, 2017.
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- Expressions | Behind the Scenes of Glory Denied Promo
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Enjoy this promo for the upcoming Expressions: Behind The Scenes of Glory Denied. The program will premiere on WSKG-TV on Thursday, November 9th at 8pm.
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- Seasons at the Lake | Promo | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Seasons at the Lake is a one hour television documentary by WSKG Public Media. It looks at the remarkable history of Oquaga Lake and its resorts that drew vacationing families from every corner of the country, for decades. The film also looks at how the family vacation changed during the twentieth century and the role air conditioning and large themed amusement parks played in that evolution.
'Seasons at the Lake' is also a story about food and the role it continues to play in binding families and their vacation traditions together. And how one Oquaga Lake resident used her family’s favorite recipes to create a popular cookbook to help support her community.
http://wskg.org/history/seasons-at-the-lake-explores-the-american-vacation-through-oquagas-resorts/
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- Alex Meixner Band, Show Three | Promo
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Check out this promo for the Alex Meixner Band and be watching Let's Polka on WSKG-TV every Saturday evening at 6:30!
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- A Learning Experience | Ken Gould | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- For many who fought in the Vietnam War, they kept their service to themselves. Ken Gould talks about what it was like to come home from the war.
In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Da Nang | Ken Gould | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Johnson City native Ken Gould talks about finding a booby trap on his jeep in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Elisabeth Bostwick, PBS Digital Innovator
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- 4th Grade Horseheads School District teacher Elisabeth Bostwick was recently honored by winning a PBS Digital Innovator Award. This short segment looks at how Elisabeth uses new technology in her classroom.
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- WSKG Classroom Elements
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Chenango Valley High School teacher, Dave Tidick, describes how he utilizes WSKG Classroom Elements to engage his students.
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- Revisiting Vietnam | Ken Thompson | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Ken Thompson talks about his experience visiting Vietnam for the first time in over forty years.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- No Clear Mission | Ken Thompson | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Ken Thompson discuses the factors that led him to oppose the war in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
National Archives
https://archive.org/
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
http://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
http://freesound.org/people/nofeedbak/
http://freesound.org/people/kennysvoice/
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- With Different Eyes | Clifford Post | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, local Marine Corps veteran Clifford Post discuses how armed conflict changes the way a veteran sees the world.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
National Archives
https://archive.org/
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
http://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
http://freesound.org/people/nofeedbak/
http://freesound.org/people/kennysvoice/
http://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/
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- I Didn't Start It | Clifford Post | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, USMC veteran Clifford Post talks about the hate mail he received after returning home from Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- All Marine | Sgt. Lawrence D. Peters | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In this video, David Harder remembers his childhood friend, Sgt. Lawrence D. Peters, who was killed in Vietnam on September 4, 1967.
Sgt. Peters was born in Johnson City, New York. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in 1963, and the Regular Marine Corps in 1966. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 4, 1967.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Keep it in Check | Clifford Post | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, USMC veteran Clifford Post talks about his duty assignment at Arlington National Cemetery. Post was stationed in Washington D.C. after serving over a year and a half in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Department of Defense
https://www.goodfreephotos.com
"The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Christmas Day | Ken Gould | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Johnson City native Ken Gould reflects on one of the worst days he experienced while stationed in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Library of Congress
National Archives
https://archive.org/
https://pixabay.com/
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Welcome Home | Ken Gould | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Johnson City native Ken Gould discusses an alternative to "Thank you for your service."
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Wikimedia Commons
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- The Wall | William Gifford | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Johnson City native William Gifford talks about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Department of Defense
https://www.goodfreephotos.com
"The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- A Story to Tell | Mark Stuart | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Army helicopter pilot Mark Stuart discusses how no one wanted to hear his, or other veterans', stories after Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Wikimedia Commons
PBS
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Cam Ranh Bay | Col. Benjamin Margolius (Ret.) | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Col. Benjamin Margolius (Ret.) discusses about his day-to-day duties while stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Library of Congress
National Archives
Wikimedia Commons
https://archive.org/
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Eight Smiling Faces | Mark Stuart | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Army helicopter pilot Mark Stuart discusses the mission for which he was awarded his first Distinguished Flying Cross.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
National Archives
https://archive.org/
https://www.pond5.com/
PBS
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
http://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
http://freesound.org/people/nofeedbak/
http://freesound.org/people/kennysvoice/
http://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/
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- Comrades in Arms | William Gifford | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Johnson City native William Gifford discusses how he and his fellow mechanics would pay tribute to their fallen comrades in arms.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Video Clip:
"The Battle of Ia Drang Valley," CBS News (1965), via https://archive.org
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Time to Crank | Mark Stuart | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Army helicopter pilot Mark Stuart reflects on a humorous story from his time in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Bob Hope | Col. Benjamin Margolius (Ret.) | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Col. Benjamin Margolius (Ret.) talks about what it was like to see a Bob Hope USO show while stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
National Archives
https://archive.org/
https://www.nancysinatra.com/
Audio: Bob Hope Special, 1967, CBS.
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Tooth & Tail | Col. Benjamin Margolius (Ret.) | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Col. Benjamin Margolius (Ret.) talks about the important, but often overlooked, role that support personal played in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Library of Congress
National Archives
https://archive.org/
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Day One | Mark Stuart | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Army helicopter pilot Mark Stuart reflects on his first day in Vietnam.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Library of Congress
National Archives
https://archive.org/
https://www.pond5.com/
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
http://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
http://freesound.org/people/nofeedbak/
http://freesound.org/people/kennysvoice/
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- Sign Me Up | Mark Stuart | Local Vietnam Stories
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In anticipation of Ken Burns' new documentary "The Vietnam War", we asked local veterans to share their own stories about the conflict.
In this video segment, Army helicopter pilot Mark Stuart talks about how he ended up joining the Army.
Watch more local Vietnam stories at: http://www.wskg.org/vietnamwar
Additional Images and Clips:
Library of Congress
PBS
Additional Sounds:
http://freesound.org/people/OroborosNZ/
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- Let's Polka | Alex Meixner, Show Two Promo
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG's Let's Polka welcomes back polka superstar Alex Meixner for another half hour of fun and excitement. Check out this preview of Alex and his band peforming the classic, "Roll Out the Barrel Polka" and tune in every Saturday evening at 6:30 on WSKG-TV for another episode of Let's Polka!
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- Let's Polka | Special Delivery, Show Two Promo
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Enjoy this promo for Special Delivery's second appearance on WSKG's Let's Polka! Be watching every Saturday evening at 6:30 on WSKG for the very best polka bands from all across the country! Hosted by Bill Flynn.
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- Polka Method Show One Promo | Let's Polka | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG's Let's Polka returns with a new episode featuring the Polka Method! This seven piece band features some of the youngest performers to ever grace the Let's Polka stage but what they lack in experience they make up for in talent and enthusiasm! Selections include the classic 'Fiddler's Polka' and 'Na Lewo'. Let's Polka airs every Saturday night at 6:30 on WSKG and is hosted by Bill Flynn.
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- Alex Meixner Promo | Let's Polka | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- The talented Alex Meixner takes the Let's Polka stage in a fantastic episode of polka fun! Take a quick sneak peek with this promo and tune in to Let's Polka every Saturday evening at 8:30 on WSKG!
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- Let's Polka | Special Delivery Promo | Show One
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG's Let's Polka returns with a brand new episode featuring Special Delivery from Buffalo, New York. Enjoy this promo and watch Let's Polka every Saturday evening at 6:30 on WSKG.
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- The Gray Riders | Promo | WSKG Public Media
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- THE GRAY RIDERS is a one-hour documentary airing this fall on Public Television that looks at the remarkable 100-year history of the New York State Police. The film features photographs and rare footage from the vast New York State Police archives along with dozens of interviews and comments from the men and women whose extraordinary service and dedication have made the State Police what it is today – one of the finest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the world.
Learn More About the Film: http://wskg.org/history/the-gray-riders/
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- Expressions | Alexei Aceto Promo | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- Classical pianist Alexei Aceto performs on WSKG's Expressions premiering Thursday, April 27th at 8pm. Enjoy this promo showcasing just a little of Alexei's talent.
Announcer: Bill Snyder
This episode of Expressions was produced in partnership with the Classical Pianists of the Future
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- Won't You be my Neighbor | Chords of Memory | WSKG Public Media
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- In this episode of "Chords of Memory", we highlight the photography of Verne Morton, a photographer from Groton, New York. Joanna Patchett sings the theme from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, "Won't You be my Neighbor". Photographs courtesy of the History Center in Tompkins County.
"Chords of Memory" is a web series from WSKG that combines historic photographs with local musical talent. In each episode, a local artist provides the musical backdrop to a showcase of hand-selected images from various photographic archives. Each piece is intimate and performed acoustically, and many of the photographs shown are preserved at historical societies across our region.
Links:
History Center in Tompkins County: https://www.thehistorycenter.net/
Chords of Memory: http://wskg.org/program/chords-of-memory/
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- Solving 2-Step Word Problems | Good To Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know video series!
This video addresses Common Core Grade 3 Standard Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic. Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
VIDEO SCRIPT: Solving 2-Step Word Problems
In third grade, your child will solve two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Let’s try one: There were ten adults and five children at the movies. Each adult ticket costs $8.00 and each child ticket costs $3.00. What is the total cost of all the tickets?
What is this question asking us to f...
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- Fractions On A Number Line | Good To Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know video series!
This video addresses Common Core Grade 3 Standard Number & Operations - Fractions: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.
A) Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram by defining the interval from 0 to 1 as the whole and partitioning it into b equal parts. Recognize that each part has size 1/b and that the endpoint of the part based at 0 locates the number 1/b on the number line.
B) Represent a fraction a/b on a number line diagram by marking off a lengths 1/b from 0. Recognize that the resulting interval has size a/b and that its endpoint locates the number a/b on the number line.
Storyboard and script by: Annie Cartie
Theme music by: http://ccmixter.org/files/duckett/15556
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- Fractions | Good To Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know video series!
This video addresses Common Core Grade 3 Standard Number & Operations - Fractions: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
VIDEO SCRIPT: Fractions: Modeling with Number Bonds & Tape Diagrams
When a whole is broken into equal parts each part is a fraction. Each part of this fraction is one-half. Your child will draw tape diagrams as a visual tool to help him break apart one whole. In third grade, your child will break one whole into two equal parts, three equal parts, four equal parts, six equal parts, and eight equal parts.
Let’s solve a third grade word problem: Braydon had pizza for lunch. He ate one-forth of it ...
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- Units of Measure | Good To Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know video series!
This video addresses Common Core Grade 4 Standard Measurement & Data: Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit. Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; L, mL; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table.
VIDEO SCRIPT: Units of Measure
In fourth grade, your child will use the metric system to measure length, mass, and capacity. Length refers to the measurement of something from end to end. Long lengths are called distance.
Mass refers to the measure of the amount of matter in an object.
Capacity refers to the maximum amount that somet...
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- Area Model | Good To Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- WSKG is here to help you help your child understand the basic concepts of the common core curriculum with our Good To Know video series!
This video addresses Common Core Grade 4 Standard Number & Operations in Base Ten: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic. Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
VIDEO SCRIPT: Area Model
When first learning to multiply two two-digit numbers your child will use the area model.
To start, your child will use her knowledge of place value to decompose into tens and ones. To decompose means to break apart. Let’s decompose these numbers by the value of each digit.
The value of two tens is twenty. The v...
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- Explore the Critical Zone
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- 7 years ago
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- The Critical Zone supports terrestrial life on Earth. It is the region above and below the Earth surface, extending from the tops of the trees down through the subsurface to the bottom of the groundwater.
Critical Zone scientists work to discover how this living skin is structured, evolves, and provides essential functions that sustain life.
The national Critical Zone Observatory Network is made up of nine environmental observatories each located in a different climatic and geologic setting. CZO scientists observe and measure a set of common parameters at each site. Building a common set of measurements across a diverse range of environmental conditions allows scientists to examine the underlying factors responsible for ecosystem growth and resilience.
Through interdisciplinary investigation, CZ scientists help us understand the essential functions that sustain life on Earth.
This project is in partnership with the Paleontol...
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- Rounding: Nearest 10 or 100 | Good to Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Rounding: Nearest 10 or 100
Learning to assess the reasonableness of an answer is an important mathematical skill. It’s your child’s way of seeing if she’s on the right track when problem solving. Sometimes we use rounding to estimate a solution.
In third grade, your child will round whole numbers using a vertical number line and round to the nearest ten or to the nearest hundred.
Let’s round seven-hundred sixty-two to the nearest hundred. Your child knows seven-hundred sixty-two is made up of seven hundreds, six tens, and two ones. Seven hundreds is seven-hundred. So seven-hundred-sixty-two will fall somewhere above seven-hundred on the vertical number line.
How many hundreds come after seven hundreds? Five-hundred, six-hundred, seven-hundred, eight-hundred… Eight hundreds!
Next, your child will find the midpoint or halfway mark. What falls halfway between 700 and 800? This can be tricky, so your child may ski...
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- Partial Products | Good to Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Partial Products
When your child first learns to multiply two two-digit numbers, she will use the area model. This visual tool illustrates how to decompose numbers and find four different products. As her skills improve, she will move from this pictorial model into a concrete method called partial products.
Using partial products to solve forty-three times fifty-six, looks like this. She will start by multiplying tens times tens. Next, she will multiply tens times ones. Then, ones times tens and last, ones times ones.
These are called partial products. This is the product, or answer. Using partial products removes the pictorial step but places the same emphasis on the actual value of the numbers being multiplied.
By the end of fourth grade, your child will use the standard algorithm to multiply! This algorithm is used to develop an abstract level of understanding. If she jumps right to using the algorithm,
she will not develo...
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- Making Sense of Money | Good to Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Making Sense of Money
In fourth grade, your child will use the four operations to solve word problems involving money. In order to do this, she will first learn to decompose, or break apart, one dollar into smaller units. We call these units: quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
Ask your child: How many quarters make up one dollar? How many quarters make up two dollars?
Think about nickels: How many nickels make one dollar? She knows one dollar is one-hundred cents, so she might skip count by five to one-hundred. There are twenty nickels in one-hundred cents!
When using money, it’s very important to consider the units. One dollar can be written like this or like this. Five cents can be this or this.
With practice, your child will understand all the ways we represent money and be comfortable using decimal notation. Find opportunities to talk about money with your child so she can problem solve with confidence!
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- Decomposing Fractions | Good to Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Decomposing Fractions
To decompose means to break apart. Your child has already decomposed whole numbers with number bonds, tape diagrams, and place value charts. In fourth grade, he will decompose fractions.
Three-eighths is a fraction. We can decompose three-eighths into parts using a tape diagram as the visual model. One-eighth, plus one-eighth, plus one-eighth equals three-eighths.Your child will write this as an equation. These are called unit fractions.
He will also decompose three-eighths as two-eighths plus one-eighths. Decomposing fractions into different parts helps your child to understand that one whole can be expressed in more than one way.
Sometimes your child will work with improper fractions. Ten-fourths is an improper fractions because the numerator is greater than the denominator. Your child will decompose an improper fraction by considering the denominator and pulling out one whole. Four-fourths equals one whole. Af...
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- Multiplication Fluency | Good to Know | WSKG
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Multiplication Fluency
Your child’s introduction to multiplication is through repeated addition. He will draw an array to visualize, or see, five groups of four stars. He will count the stars and find the total.
As his understanding improves, he will skip count to find the total more efficiently. Your child will use a variety of visual models, to represent multiplication as he works toward developing multiplication fluency.
Fluency in third grade means knowing, from memory, all products of two one-digit numbers. This includes facts from zero times zero all the way up through nine times nine.
Then, your child will use these facts to develop the connection between multiplication and division. Knowing that five times four equals twenty is the first step in understanding that 20 stars, divided into five groups, equals four stars in each group. Or, twenty divided by five equals four.
Talk about the relationship between multi...
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- New York and the Civil War | Chords of Memory | WSKG Public Media
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
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- This episode of 'Chords of Memory' highlights photographs of New York State soldiers from the Civil War. Brian Hyland provides the music and plays "An Mhaighdean Mhara" on his concertina. Photographs courtesy of the Chemung County Historical Society, the Delaware County Historical Association, and the Library of Congress.
Our Website: http://wskg.org/program/chords-of-memory/
Chemung County Historical Society: http://www.chemungvalleymuseum.org/
Delaware County Historical Association: http://www.dcha-ny.org/
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
Brian Hyland: http://www.hylandirishmusic.com
'Chords of Memory' is a web series from WSKG that combines historic photographs with local musical talent. In each episode, a local artist provides the musical backdrop to a showcase of hand-selected images from various photographic archives. Each piece is intimate and performed acoustically, and many of the photographs shown are preserved at ...
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- Photography of Joseph K. Noyes | Chords of Memory | WSKG Public Media
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- In this episode of 'Chords of Memory' we highlight the photography of Joseph K. Noyes, an amateur photographer from Binghamton. Robert Perez provides the musical arrangement with his song "My Life". Photographs courtesy of the Broome County Historical Society.
Our Website: http://wskg.org/program/chords-of-memory/
Robert Perez: Rock N Robby on Facebook
'Chords of Memory' is a web series from WSKG that combines historic photographs with local musical talent. In each episode, a local artist provides the musical backdrop to a showcase of hand-selected images from various photographic archives. Each piece is intimate and performed acoustically, and many of the photographs shown are preserved at historical societies across our region.
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- Binghamton Noir | Chords of Memory | WSKG Public Media
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The photographs in this episode of 'Chords of Memory' were taken in Binghamton, New York between 1937 and 1947. Phil Westcott provides the musical arrangement on his saxophone for the piece. Photographs courtesy of the Broome County Historical Society.
Our Website: http://wskg.org/program/chords-of-memory/
Broome County Historical Society: http://broomehistory.org/
Phil Westcott: https://philhazen.bandcamp.com/
'Chords of Memory' is a web series from WSKG that combines historic photographs with local musical talent. In each episode, a local artist provides the musical backdrop to a showcase of hand-selected images from various photographic archives. Each piece is intimate and performed acoustically, and many of the photographs shown are preserved at historical societies across our region.