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WNET
WNET Parenting Minutes are short videos that focus on topics related to early childhood learning and family engagement. Each video has additional tips and facts and links to more free resources and information for parents and caregivers. You can catch Parenting Minute videos on WNED PBS and WNED PBS Kids channels and be on the lookout for a Parenting Minute workshop coming this summer!
PBS KIDS
Learn about PBS KIDS and Buffalo Toronto Public Media’s fun and educational STEAM initiative here!
Compact Science is an engaging new YouTube series from WNED PBS and the Buffalo Museum of Science that explores the wonders of science. Host Sarajane Gomlak Green investigates the geology of Niagara Falls, discovers the chemistry at work in sponge candy, learns how density is the key to lake-effect snow, and more. If you’re curious about the world around you, there’s a lot to explore and Compact Science will be your guide.
Geared towards children (grades K-6), their families, and anyone with a curiosity of the world around them, each episode frames a scientific concept with a signature regional connection that celebrates the science and history of the Western New York and Southern Ontario region.
New episodes will be released every other Tuesday at noon beginning March 30 through May 25, 2021. The videos will also be available here on our website along with instructions for the viewer challenge experiments that can be performed at home or in a classroom.
Compact Science is funded by The Joy Family Foundation.
BTPM CREATES COMMUNITY CLASSROOM
We are here to support families, educators, and students as a community classroom during these challenging times. Find special program schedules, tool & resources.
BTPM & Bright by text
Bright by Text provides quality information and trusted resources to parents and caregivers of children prenatal to eight.
PBS KIDS' weekday newsletter offers activities and tips you can use to help kids play and learn at home.
The past year has been tough. Families are having to adapt and respond to what seems like a never ending year of abnormalities.
PBS KIDS FOR PARENTs
Preschoolers need lots of support from adults to help them develop the habits they need to thrive in school and beyond. Find resources to support your child's early learning.
PBS Kids for Parents
There are a lot of questions about the new school year during COVID. But whether learning at school or home this year, your child will learn and grow--here's how to support them.
PBS Kids For Parents
Families have enormous questions about the 2020-2021 school year right now. There's a lot we can do to bolster our children’s feelings of confidence and security.
We know it can be a scary time for families as normal routines are disrupted due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This is a great time to talk to children about what is happening, and empower them to be helpers to keep each other healthy.
In the words of Mister Rogers: "Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting and less scary.”
Vaccines are important, but can be scary. Learn how scientists and vaccines help keep us healthy.
Activity: Vaccine Coloring Sheet(pdf)
You can be a germ buster by wearing a cloth mask. Learn more about how a mask can keep you healthy.
Meet an epidemiologist and see how these disease detectives are working to help the spread of the Coronavirus.
A doctor helper explains the coronavirus and how children can be good helpers.
Social distancing is necessary to stay healthy from coronavirus, but can be difficult for children to understand.
Here are some tips for how parents can talk to their children about coronavirus.
We can all be helpers. Here are a few tips!
Explaining a virus to children in a way they can understand, can help stop the spreading of germs.
A few do's &don'ts for families during the coronavirus outbreak.
Be a good helper and remember to wash your hands often!!
Wash Your Hands
Catch that Cough
Rest is Best
Make Others Feel Better
Enjoy family viewing events featuring movie specials of themed programming Friday nights from 7-9pm on the WNED PBS KIDS channel.
Parenting resources and tips on raising children, child development articles, crafts and games for you and your child, planning birthday parties, and kids activities.
PBS PArents
PBS Parents has articles from parents and experts.
Camp TV
Welcome to Camp TV, a day camp experience for kids ages 5-10 in your living room!
Whether you're looking for music and dance activities, science experiments, family-friendly adventures, or learning about dinosaurs (plus more!), you will find media and activity resources in the Camp PBS LearningMedia collection. We've gathered fun, exploratory resources for you to use as you plan learning fun.
Meet Elinor! Elinor likes to learn all kinds of things, and you can never ask too many questions with Elinor! Don't miss the new show, Elinor Wonders Why on WNED PBS KIDS!
Kids will recognize themselves in Elinor’s boundless curiosity as she pursues the questions she wonders about – making observations and reveling in nature’s amazing answers. The stories in Elinor Wonders Why center around Elinor and her friends Ari, a funny and imaginative bat, and Olive, a perceptive and warm elephant. As kids explore Animal Town, they will meet all kinds of interesting, funny, and quirky characters, each with something to teach us about respecting others, the importance of diversity, caring for the environment, and working together to solve problems.
In each episode, Elinor models the foundational practices of science inquiry and engineering design -- including her amazing powers of observation and willingness to ask questions and investigate. When she encounters something she doesn’t understand, like why birds have feathers or how tiny ants build massive anthills, she just can’t let it go until she figures it out. And in discovering the answers, Elinor often learns something about nature’s ingenious inventions and how they can connect to ideas in our designed world, and what it takes to live in a community.
Along with the television series, Elinor Wonders Why will offer digital content for kids, parents and teachers, also debuting in September 2020. Elinor Wonders Why games will be available on pbskids.org and on the free PBS KIDS Games App. An Elinor Wonders Why app will also launch after the series’ debut. Parent resources will include tips and hands-on activities to extend the learning at home.
A national survey of parents with young children age 2-6 has found that media and technology are an essential part of preparing children to enter elementary school. Overwhelmingly, PBS KIDS stands out as the most trusted and relied upon media brand for this school readiness, ranking first in delivering on every measured skill.
PBS Parents
There’s nothing else like having a playful, imaginative, and supportive sibling at your side! In these stories, brothers and sisters bond over nature, art, adventure, and more.
PBS PARENTS
To encourage conversations about race and diversity with your children, check out this list of children's books to read together as a family.
PBS Parents
Find fun, educational activities and crafts for kids from PBS Parents.
Check out PBS KIDS apps! Download by favorite character or type of device.
A new app that offers parents a real-time connection to their child's activity on pbskids.org.
Buffalo Toronto Public Media has partnered with the Family Justice Center of Erie County to bring you Reach Out - Recognize Relationship Abuse, online and on television to help give you the tools you need to start a conversation with someone you think might be in an abusive relationship.
WBFO Facebook live event
WBFO's Eileen Buckley lead a panel of experts discussing cyberbullying and how to tackle a 24/7 torment. Learn strategies students, teachers and parents can use to minimize it.
Watch our conversation with Buffalo School Superintendent Kriner Cash. WBFO Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley and Tiffany Lankes of The Buffalo News talked with Cash about many critical education issues and asked questions posed by our Facebook Live audience.
Kate DiCamillo on the magic of reading aloud
Super Model Emme's tips on single parenting and body image.
Meet Julia, the newest friend on Sesame Street. Julia has autism, and when she’s excited, sometimes she flaps her arms. Abby flaps her wings when she’s excited.
