In this episode, we talk about what a hero is!

Some of the first stories people told were about heroes, and they're still among the most popular stories today. In this video series, we're going to be creating some of those stories about heroes, put them up against hero-sized problems, and help them come up with solutions that amaze us! In this episode, we talk about what a hero is! Each episode of SPTV includes one of these educational lessons. Catch full episodes of Story Pirates on the Michigan Learning Channel.

Former NASA Astronaut Jerry Linenger will read to us from his book all about his time on the MIR space [...]

In today's episode, Ty Schmidt from Norte! Youth Cycling reads us a story about a bicycle, Big Red, and its [...]

US Coast Guard Air Station Commander Charles E. Webb joins us to read us a story about Onyx the miracle [...]

Every American hero was once a young child. Join Rochelle Riley, Director of Arts and Culture for the City of [...]

Explore the Great Lakes with Hans Van Sumeren from the Great Lakes Water Studies Institute. Hans reads us a true [...]

https://youtu.be/P36_y9eLl10 Our guest today, Doug Mirabelli, was a catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He reads us a book about [...]

https://youtu.be/hbcSr-7EJVU Today’s special guest is Doris Winslow from The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. She reads us [...]

Meet Kaitlyn Bohnet and her friend Vega, a Red-Tailed Hawk, from the North Sky Raptor Sanctuary. Kaitlyn reads us a [...]

Writing prompts set to music to help students focus.

https://youtu.be/pI3ms_Pu4XgEnjoy the Detroit Zoo’s AniMinute series where we introduce you to individual animals living at the Detroit Zoo. In this [...]

“You’re my favorite person to talk about space to.” Joey Jefferson, a Mission Operations Engineer at NASA, talks with his [...]

https://youtu.be/7br-LSLZvMY Join David, educator and storyteller, as he tells the tale of “Why Turtles Live in Water” through visual storytelling.

https://youtu.be/FcR-1eO98EsDid you know that bees, birds, wild animals, and humans are all connected? David tells us a story to illustrate [...]

Join Guest Reader and Musician Miriam Pico for the book Ada’s Violin

Join Guest Reader Kimmee Wenkel for the book Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

Join Guest Reader Marty Lagina for the book Papa’s Mechanical Fish

Join Guest Reader Casey Cowell for the book 21 Elephants and Still Standing

Join Guest Reader: Ron Jolly for the book Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account Of The 1938 War Of The [...]

Join Guest Reader Carter Oosterhouse for the book Iggy Peck, Architect.

Join Guest Reader Amy Smart for the book Squash Boom Beet.

Join Guest Reader Tamara DePonio for the book Giraffes Can’t Dance.

Learn two new high-frequency words and look for rhyming patters.

Learn about the -oi-, -oy-, -ou-, and -ow- vowel patterns.

Read about animals that help plant trees and practice words with more than one syllable.

Read words with more than two syllables and read a text about a butterfly.

Learn about gardens and practice some new vocabulary words.

Solve a mystery word and learn about how living things find food.

Get inspired by a walk in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Learn about how to write sentences with linking words.

Learn about the "Magic E" and read a poem.

Learn about the long u vowel sound and about the writing process.

Practice reading words with more than one syllable in a text about a hungry groundhog.

Read a nonfiction text about a seed and writing sentences with linking words.

Read a book about plants and how they grow.

Solve a mystery word and go outside to see camouflage in action.

Learn more about words with more than one syllable.

Write sentences with linking words and read a nonfiction text.

Learn about words with qu- and read a nursery rhyme.

Learn about the long e vowel sound and read a book about baby animals.

Read a hybrid text about the desert and write sentences.

Read a hybrid text about the desert and write sentences.

Learn the difference between living and nonliving.

Look at words with the long e sound in a sentence and read about frogs.

How are the sun, plants, and life on Earth connected?

Learn about base words and prefixes and suffixes.

Join the Ann Arbor District Library's crew of puppet pals as they recommend and talk about new and interesting picture [...]

Learn about words with the -wh- sound.

Learn about the letter O and the long o sound.