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 Masters | N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear
Wednesday, April 28, 1 PM
American Masters examines the enigmatic life and mind of National Medal of Arts-winner Navarro Scott Momaday, the Kiowa novelist, short-story writer, essayist and poet. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “House Made of Dawn” led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream.
- Program website
- Learning Resource: Poetry Foundation | The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
Learning at Home
Week of 4/26 – 4/30
Monday, April 26
12 PM: Let’s Learn – M and AP Make MAP!
“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn about maps and protecting the environment, read “Machines at Work,” blend and decode ‘s.
- Program page
- PBS LearningMedia: Let’s Learn Collection
1 PM: NATURE: Sharks of Hawaii
Under the waves and tropical sun, each of Hawaii’s volcanic islands host a unique ocean landscape teeming with biodiversity. But one predator reigns supreme – the shark. With 40 species of shark calling these warm waters home, scientists are seeing new animal behavior around every corner. Whitetip reef sharks “sleep” in tight volcanic tunnels. In the deep water, everything is on the menu for the hunting Tiger shark, from birds to Humpback whales. Hopping from island to island, uncover surprising moments of cooperation, rarely seen hunting tactics and striking insights into these predators of the world’s paradise.
- Program website
- PBS LearningMedia: Nature | The Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Sharks in Our Future
2 PM: NATURE: Octopus Making Contact
The octopus is the closest we may get to meeting an alien. They evolved from a common cousin more than 500 million years ago, but are also intelligent creatures with proven problem-solving abilities. So what happens when you invite an eight-legged alien into your living room? This documentary follows marine biologist David Scheel as he tracks his evolving relationship with his own octopus.
- Program website
- PBS LearningMedia: Octopus Moving Along the Ocean Floor | NOAA
Tuesday, April 27
12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “e” in Sleeping?
“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Explore maps and what make makes animals happy, read “Hush,” review long e, I, o.
- Program page
- PBS LearningMedia: Let’s Learn Collection
1 PM: NOVA: Reef Rescue
Coral reefs are not just beautiful, they are also home to over a quarter of all marine life and are crucial to human societies around the globe. But as the climate changes and oceanic heat waves become commonplace, corals are bleaching and reefs are dying off. Now, marine biologists from across the world are teaming up to counteract this catastrophe with a technique called assisted evolution. Follow scientists as they attempt to crossbreed heat-resistant corals, and even transplant corals’ algae, in a race to save the coral reefs from extinction.
- Program website
- PBS LearningMedia: NOVA Next | Palau’s Improbably Healthy Coral Reefs
2 PM: NOVA: Lethal Seas
A deadly recipe is brewing that threatens the survival of countless creatures throughout Earth’s oceans. For years, we’ve known that the oceans absorb about a quarter of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. But with high carbon emissions worldwide, this silent killer is entering our seas at a staggering rate, raising the ocean’s acidity.
- Program website
- PBS LearningMedia: Ocean Acidification and Marine Life
Wednesday, April 28
12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Find the Long “a” in Taste?
“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Find a secret hidden number, do a taste test, read “Be a Friend,” blend and decode long a.
- Program page
- PBS LearningMedia: Let’s Learn Collection
1 PM: American Masters | N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear
American Masters examines the enigmatic life and mind of National Medal of Arts-winner Navarro Scott Momaday, the Kiowa novelist, short-story writer, essayist and poet. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “House Made of Dawn” led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream.
- Program website
- PBS LearningMedia: Native American Mythology | N. Scott Momaday
2:30 PM: Spotlight Special: Native American Artistry
Native American artists discuss their work, including pottery and painting, the historical relevance of the pieces, and the updating of traditional motifs for modern viewers.
- Program website
- PBS LearningMedia: Truman Lowe: Contemporary Native American Artist | Native American Culture
Thursday, April 29
12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Find the Long “a” in Play?
“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn about coding, celebrate an owl’s birthday, read “Tito Puente, Mambo King.”
- Program page
- PBS LearningMedia: Let’s Learn Collection
1 PM: Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change The World
Travel with the world’s best-known climate activist as she takes her fight to a global stage. With unique access, the series follows Greta over an extraordinary year as she embarks on a mission to ensure world leaders work to limit global warming.
2 PM: NOVA: Can We Cool the Planet?
As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are wondering if we need solutions beyond reducing emissions. Enter geoengineering. From sucking carbon straight out of the air to physically blocking out sunlight, the options may seem far-fetched. But as time runs out on conventional solutions to climate change, scientists are asking the hard questions: Can geoengineering really work?
- Program page
- PBS LearningMedia: What Is the Future of Earth’s Climate?
Friday, April 30
12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Soft “c” in Celebrate?
“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn magic tricks, how to make scary sounds, & why families are important, read “ABC NYC.”
- Program page
- PBS LearningMedia: Let’s Learn Collection
1 PM: Articulate | Mark Mothersbaugh, Liz Casella, Greg Dunn
Mothersbaugh’s sustained a life in art far removed from his band, Devo. Much of haute couture feeds off Liz Casella’s creativity. In illustrating the human brain’s complexity, Greg Dunn creates great beauty.
- Program page
- Learning resource: Self Reflected | The Franklin Institute
1:30 PM: Poetry in America: Finishing the Hat
Stephen Sondheim is widely hailed as the greatest modern American musical theater composer. Series creator Elisa New speaks with Broadway stage actors and writer Adam Gopnik to explore Sondheim’s singular ability to blend lyrics and music, using “Finishing the Hat,” from Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Sunday in the Park with George”, as their case study.
2 PM: Artbound | La Raza
In East Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s, a group of young activists used creative tools like writing and photography as a means for community organizing, providing a platform for the Chicano Movement in the form of the bilingual newspaper/magazine La Raza. In the process, the young activists became artists themselves and articulated a visual language that shed light on the daily life, concerns and struggles of the Mexican-American experience in Southern California and provided a voice to the Chicano Rights Movement.
- Program page
- Learning Resource: Narrated Photo Essay: Oscar Castillo on La Raza’s Enduring Importance
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