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Learning at Home | Week of 2/01 – 2/05

Take advantage of this week’s Learning at Home broadcast schedule – great for students engaged in hybrid or distance instruction, and families looking to spend some extra, quality time together!

After watching these fascinating programs, explore the PBS LearningMedia and web resources to learn more.

Highlight of the Week

American Experience: Road to Memphis
Wednesday, February 3, 2 PM

Discover the wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against the backdrop of the seething and turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

Learning at Home
Week of 2/01 – 2/05

Monday, February 1

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Theatre and Ten Start with “t”!

Let’s Learn helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. One-hour programs feature instruction by educators and virtual field trips. Celebrate an owl’s birthday, read “Bodega Cat,” try playwriting, learn about coding, making maracas, and the letters T and U.

1 PM: NOVA: Forgotten Genius

The grandson of Alabama slaves, Percy Julian met with every possible barrier in a deeply segregated America. He was a man of genius, devotion, and determination. As a black man he was also an outsider, fighting to make a place for himself in a profession and country divided by bigotry—a man who would eventually find freedom in the laboratory. By the time of his death, Julian had risen to the highest levels of scientific and personal achievement, overcoming countless obstacles to become a world-class scientist, a self-made millionaire, and a civil-rights pioneer.

Tuesday, February 2

12 PM: Let’s Learn – World and Weather Start with “w”!

Let’s Learn helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Dress paper dolls to learn math/science, read “Wide Big World” and “When Mama Braids My Hair,” clap along with syllables, learn letters V, W, X.

1 PM: Without a Whisper – Konnón:kwe

Explore the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. Mohawk Clan Mother Louise Herne and Professor Sally Roesch Wagner shake the foundation of the established history of the women’s rights movement in the US joining forces to shed light on the hidden history of the influence of Haudenosaunee Women on the women’s rights movement.

1:30 PM: Ohero:kon – Under the Husk

Ohero:kon – Under the Husk follows the challenging journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women. Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are childhood friends from traditional families living in the Mohawk Community of Akwesasne that straddles the U.S. / Canada border. They both take part in a four-year adolescent passage rites ceremony called Ohero:kon “Under the Husk” that has been revived in their community. This ceremony challenges them spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. It shapes the women they become.

2 PM: The Horse Relative

The Horse Relative explores the historic art of horse regalia and how the tradition is being revived and reinterpreted by Dakota communities for a new generation. Interviewees discuss the sacred relationship between the horse and the Dakota people, and the centuries-old tradition of dressing horses for ceremonies and celebrations. The film also looks at the efforts of artists, educators and community leaders to preserve and restore the Dakota language, cultural traditions and lifeways.

Wednesday, February 3

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Year and Young Start with “y”!

Let’s Learn helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn how snakes and lizards are alike and different, explore shapes, do a freeze dance, read “It’s Bath Time Baby,” practice identifying syllables and writing Y and Z.

1 PM: NATURE: The Alps ⎪ Winter’s Fortress

In Europe’s highest mountain range, discover how Alpine lynx, griffon vultures, ibex, crocuses, marmots and more face extreme seasonal fluctuations, from volatile thunderstorms and landslides of summer to avalanches and frozen temperatures of winter. In the second and final part of NATURE’s miniseries “The Alps,” experience the hostile and bitter cold ecosystems of the Alps, shaped by snow blizzards and avalanches.

2 PM: American Experience: Road to Memphis

Discover the wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against the backdrop of the seething and turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

Thursday, February 4

12 PM: Let’s Learn – What’s the First Sound in Friend?

Let’s Learn helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Do a float/sink experiment, have a picnic inside to learn math, read “Color Dance” and mix colors in water, play “Feed the Fish” to identify initial word sounds, learn about feelings and friends.

1 PM: 10 Modern Marvels that Changed America

A whirlwind tour of 10 engineering feats that made our civilization possible: from the Erie Canal and Eads Bridge, to the Holland Tunnel and Hoover Dam. Find out which 10 modern marvels made the list.

2 PM: 10 Parks that Changed America

The story of 10 visionaries who took open canvases of God-forsaken land, and transformed them into serene spaces that offer city dwellers a respite from the hustle and bustle of urban life.

Friday, February 5

12 PM: Let’s Learn – More Music is Alliteration!

Let’s Learn helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Discover how to stop apples from browning, learn a song from Cuba, listen for alliteration, read “A New Home” and “Still a Family: A Story About Homelessness.”

1 PM: Articulate | Scents and Sensibility, Found in Translation, Elizabeth Streb

Conducting opera may be classical music’s toughest job. Fabio Luisi does it with grace. Scholarly translations are a battle between literal accuracy and literary interpretation. Elizabeth Streb may well be the most fervently anti-dance choreographer you’ve ever met.

1:30 PM: Poetry in America: Skyscraper

Travel back to 1914—when Chicago’s skyscrapers and Chicago’s poets were defining modernist reach and audacity. Elisa New considers the rise of the skyscraper—and the emergence of the modernist poem—in an episode featuring celebrated architect Frank Gehry, Chinese visionary and real estate developer Zhang Xin, poet Robert Polito, and student poets from around the United States. And what about today? Can a building, as Sandburg asserts, have “soul,” and who gives it that soul?

2 PM: Songs to Keep: Treasures of an Adirondack Folk Collector

Follow the musical trail of folk collector Marjorie Lansing Porter as we explore gorgeous American vistas. In the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, Porter tirelessly recorded folk songs that were on the brink of disappearing. Now, contemporary singers and musicians honor her collection by re-recording these traditional tunes in Songs to Keep: Treasures of an Adirondack Folk Collector.