PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
Storymaker + Student Reporting Labs
Started: 2009
- Currently active
- Created by our station
StoryMaker is Student Reporting Labs’ new free learning platform. It’s a one-stop shop for projects, tutorials, and lesson plans connected to media making, digital journalism, and public broadcasting. Features include a personalized dashboard for educators to save their favorite resources, an educator directory to connect to like-minded educators, and a robust library of activities, videos, and worksheets. Our standards-based curriculum develops communication skills, critical thinking, and teamwork, and provides a strong foundation of storytelling skills to help students discover their place in the world.
Resources include:
– New prompts, lessons and challenges each fall and spring semester
– Educator resources like tutorials, webinars, and curriculum roadmaps
– Community building
This project reaches tweens and teens via...
- Directly engaging t(w)eens via activities, events, or programs
- Indirectly reaching t(w)eens via educators, PD, curriculum
- Media and/or educational content that is made by, with, or for t(w)eens
What topics does this project focus on?
Civic engagement
Culture, society
Current affairs
Education
Identity, relationships
Journalism
Life skills, career skills
Media literacy
Media making
Public media
Science, technology
Wellness, mental health
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Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
Yes
Departments involved:
Education
Newsroom
Production (TV/Radio)
Engagement
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
T(w)eens
Who creates the media content?
T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)
*T(w)eens
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Both youth and adults (in collaboration)
Where is the content shared?
Broadcast TV
Website
Podcast
PBS Learning Media
YouTube
Instagram
TikTok
Twitter
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
We partner with *local organizations* to host programming
We partner with *national organizations* to host programming
We partner with our *local school district(s)* to host programming
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
3-10 hours
Contact time between youth participants and partner orgs:
3-10 hours
Indirectly engaging youth via educators, professional development, or curriculum
This project indirectly engages youth by partnering with...
Schools Community-based organizations or nonprofits Curriculum or content distributors (e.g., PBS Learning Media)
Does this project train educators or run a professional development program?
Yes
Does this project create curricula or educational resources for educators to use?
Yes