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Learning at Home | Week of 5/24 – 5/28

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

Asian Americans | Breaking Ground
Tuesday, May 25, 1 PM

Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that chronicles the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America. Personal histories and new academic research will cast a fresh lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans have played in it. Episode one, Breaking Ground, describes an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, as new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Barred by anti-Asian laws they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants,” yet they build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen, and take their fight for equality to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Learning at Home
Week of 5/24 – 5/28

Monday, May 24

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Find the Apostrophe in “Let’s”?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn how animals communicate their emotions, change shapes into forms, read “The Thing About Bees,” focus on contractions

1 PM: Life at the Waterhole: Part 1

Explore the daily drama as African wildlife flock to a manmade waterhole rigged with cameras. Dr. M. Sanjayan and his team uncover the complex dynamic of this bustling oasis where elephants, lions, leopards and more meet and compete for water. Which animals find the waterhole, how do they use it, and will they share?

2 PM: Life From Above | Colorful Planet

From space earth is not just a blue planet but a kaleidoscope of color. Swirls of turquoise phytoplankton trigger an oceanic feeding frenzy, China turns yellow as millions of flowers bloom and at night the waters off the coast of Argentina are spotted with mysterious green lights.

Tuesday, May 25

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “a” in Plane?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Make a little lava lamp, learn how to scat, read “Your Voice Is Your Superpower,” review long a sounds and contractions.

1 PM: Asian Americans | Breaking Ground

Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that chronicles the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America. Personal histories and new academic research will cast a fresh lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans have played in it. Episode one, Breaking Ground, describes an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, as new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Barred by anti-Asian laws they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants,” yet they build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen, and take their fight for equality to the U.S. Supreme Court.

2 PM: NOVA: Hindenburg: The New Evidence

The cause of the infamous Hindenburg crash has baffled experts for over 80 years, with theories about the airship’s fire ranging from deliberate sabotage to a spark generated by the stormy conditions in which it landed. But new, never-before-seen amateur footage of the crash has surfaced, showing the airship’s final seconds from a fresh angle and in unrivaled clarity. Taking clues from the footage and other sources, NOVA leads a fresh investigation at a leading scientific lab with eye-opening experiments that point to a final solution of the mystery. 

Wednesday, May 26

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “o” in Road?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Build a neighborhood, learn a song from Ghana, read “Ooko,” decode long o vowel teams.

1 PM: Asian Americans | A Question of Loyalty

An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands in Asia. Those loyalties are tested during World War II, when families are imprisoned in detention camps, and brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the battle lines.

2 PM: Human: The World Within | Defend

Look at a nature survivalist, rancher twins, a doctor who survived Ebola and the recipient of a cutting-edge cancer therapy to uncover the wildly advanced biology that keeps us alive against all odds.

Thursday, May 27

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “o” in Know?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Dissect flowers, make a collage, read “Friend For Henry,” practice long o vowel teams.

1 PM: Asian Americans | Good Americans

During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority, and targeted as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of bold ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office and a coming culture-quake simmers beneath the surface.

2 PM: Asian Americans | Generation Rising

During a time of war and social tumult, a young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claim a new identity: Asian Americans. The war’s aftermath brings new immigrants and refugees who expand the population and the definition of Asian America.

Friday, May 28

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “i” in Wide?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Compare by length and height, read “Daddy’s Arms” and “The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes,” learn rhythms from Ghana, blend/decode oe and ie vowel teams.

1 PM: Inside the MET | The Birthday Surprise

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the Americas. At five floors high and four city blocks long, the Met is home to 2.3 million square feet of artistic treasures. In the months leading up to the Met’s 150th birthday, we follow the ambitious behind-the-scenes preparations as the museum plans an anniversary year nobody will forget — but COVID-19 strikes as the exhibition revels begin. As the Met is forced to close its doors for the first time in history, a skeleton staff battles to protect 1.2 million precious objects while executives face losses approaching $150 million, revealing the new reality inside this storied art institution.

2 PM: Inside the MET | All Things to All People?

After the COVID-19 pandemic forces the Metropolitan Museum of Art to close its doors and place plans for their 150th year on hold, the killing of George Floyd in May 2020 leads to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and renewed calls for social justice. The Met is forced to confront their historical record on inclusion, exclusion and diversity in art and staffing, as questions are raised about some of the Met’s most treasured objects. As curators work to deliver on the Met’s new vision, we follow leading artists in their studios to see and hear the realities of making work that now has increased political resonance.

Learning at Home on Mountain Lake PBS is supported by:
Adirondack Foundation
With additional support by:
North Country Behavioral Medicine
Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane, Kelleher & Trombley, PLLC