Tag: LAH Weekly

  • Learning at Home | Week of 4/18 – 4/22

    Learning at Home | Week of 4/18 – 4/22

    Go on a journey with a group of high school students seeking solutions to climate change. The Resilient Ones: A Generation Takes on Climate Change invites you along to meet with the local leaders and expert innovators as these students work to make a difference in the Adirondack mountains of Northern NY.

  • Learning at Home | Week of 4/11 – 4/15

    Learning at Home | Week of 4/11 – 4/15

    The Dead Sea is dying: Since 1976, its level has dropped more than 100 feet, leaving its coastline pockmarked with thousands of sinkholes. But after more than a decade of research and debate, scientists, engineers, and political leaders have come up with a daring plan: connect the Red Sea to the Dead Sea by way…

  • Learning at Home | Week of 4/04 – 4/08

    Learning at Home | Week of 4/04 – 4/08

    Ken Burns’s two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.

  • Learning at Home | Week of 3/28 – 4/01

    Learning at Home | Week of 3/28 – 4/01

    Extremely primitive life-forms called slime molds can navigate mazes, choose between foods, and create efficient networks—no brain required. New research on these organisms, which are neither plant nor animal, could help reveal the fundamental rules underlying all decision making.

  • Learning at Home | Week of 3/21 – 3/25

    Learning at Home | Week of 3/21 – 3/25

    She was the toast of Victorian London, New York, and Paris. She was “adopted” by Indian chief Sitting Bull, charmed the Prince of Prussia, and entertained the likes of Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. Annie Oakley excelled in a man’s world by doing what she loved, and won fame and fortune as the little lady from…

  • Learning at Home | Week of 3/14 – 3/18

    Learning at Home | Week of 3/14 – 3/18

    Follow a unique, personal journey along one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world featuring the wildlife and wild places that make it so special. Emmy Award-winning wildlife cameraman, Colin Stafford-Johnson, takes viewers on an authored odyssey along Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coast.

  • Learning at Home | Week of 3/07 – 3/11

    Learning at Home | Week of 3/07 – 3/11

    Richard Blanco’s poem “Looking for The Gulf Motel” transports readers to 1970s Florida, recalling a Cuban-American family’s vacations on the sparkling sands of Marco Island. Blanco and international superstar Gloria Estefan join Elisa New and a chorus of Cuban American adults in Miami and middle school students in New York City to reflect on family…

  • Learning at Home | Week of 2/28 – 3/04

    Learning at Home | Week of 2/28 – 3/04

    In August 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee legislators cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, thus giving women in the United States the right to vote. Narrated by Rosanne Cash, By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South chronicles events leading up to that turbulent, nail-biting showdown.

  • Learning at Home | Week of 2/21 – 2/25

    Learning at Home | Week of 2/21 – 2/25

    Join Sir David Attenborough on a unique excavation of a site in southwest England with rare traces of ancient mammoths and Neanderthals. Featuring hands-on experiments with replicas of Neanderthal-era spears and photorealistic reconstructions of the site’s ancient riverside setting, NOVA brings the world of prehistoric Britain vividly to life.

  • Learning at Home | Week of 2/14 – 2/18

    Learning at Home | Week of 2/14 – 2/18

    “John Lewis – Get in the Way” is the first biographical documentary about John Lewis, an inspiring portrait of one man cast into extraordinary times and his unhesitating dedication to seeking justice for the marginalized and ignored. The film spans more than half a century, tracing Lewis’ journey of courage, confrontations and hard-won triumphs.