Wonder where to start?

Start by reading our tips for "Teaching with Media" for time-tested ideas for integrating video effectively in the classroom.

Explore by theme

We've identified six interdisciplinary themes--in the Curriculum Theme Table of Contents and linked from every page in the guide--to help you choose among the more than 300 video stories in the series:

Western Pennsylvania History (Social Studies)
Bridges and Buildings: The Built Environment (Art, Math, Science, Technology Education)
Folks in Community: What makes a home? (Social Studies, Language Arts, Home Economics)
Rivers and Valleys: Geography and Topography (Social Studies, Science)
The Arts: Exploring our humanity (Art, Music, Dance, Drama)
Having Fun: Sports and Leisure(Physical Education, Social Studies)

Start exploring in the themes related to your subject to match video, discussion and activities with your teaching goals. We've done the research for you and included a background article and bibliography to save you time.

Explore by Program

If you already know which program you'd like to use, use the program logs (in the accessible from the Program Logs Table of Contents) to choose which segments to use. From there you'll find links to related discussion and activities to build your lesson. The programs of the Pittsburgh History Series are: