| Week of Monday, December 28, 2020 |
| (All Times Eastern, Check Local Listings) |
| Monday, December 28, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Engineering | Science | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) |
| Program Title: | NOVA: Decoding the Great Pyramid | NOVA: The Planets: Inner Worlds | NOVA: The Planets: Mars | Civilizations, Episode 1: The Second Moment of Creation | Civilizations, Episode 2: How Do We Look? |
| Description: | Stunning new archaeological evidence provides clues about the Egyptians who built the Great Pyramid of Giza—and how they did it. | Explore how the inner rocky planets of the solar system formed and evolved. | Once a water world with active volcanoes, Mars is now a frozen desert planet: Could life ever have existed there? | Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity. | Explore how we look at the human body in art. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Building the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt | NOVA: Death Dive to Saturn | Saturn's Dynamic Rings | Life on Mars? | Treasures of the World | Borobudur | Art and Social Studies Collection |
| Tuesday, December 29, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Science | Science | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) |
| Program Title: | Nature: Snowbound: Animals of Winter | NOVA: Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest? | NOVA: The Planets: Jupiter | Civilizations, Episode 3: God and Art | Civilizations, Episode 4: Encounters |
| Description: | Travel across the snow globe with wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan to meet animal survivors of winter, from the penguins of Antarctica, to the Arctic fox, to the bison of Yellowstone. | Could the skills required to keep track of friend and foe make animals smarter? To find out, go inside the social lives of the smartest animals on the planet. | Learn about Jupiter's role in the formation and evolution of the solar system. | Consider how religion has inspired art and how art has inspired divine representation. | See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Adaptations of Arctic Animals | Dolphins Plan Ahead | Map a Model Solar System | The Core Tenets of Hinduism | Around the Globe: Japan |
| Wednesday, December 30, 2020 |
| Time | 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Theme, if applicable (e.g., Disaster Monday): | Science | Science | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) |
| Program Title: | A Year in Space | Beyond a Year in Space | NOVA: The Planets: Saturn | Civilizations, Episode 5: Renaissances | Civilizations, Episode 6: Paradise on Earth |
| One-sentence description: | Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's record-breaking 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight by comparing him to his identical twin on Earth, astronaut Mark Kelly. | Scott Kelly spent a year in space: What happened when he returned, and how did the time in space affect his body? | See the results of Cassini, the spacecraft that spent 13 years exploring Saturn and its moons. | Travel east and west—to Renaissance Italy and to the contemporaneous Islamic empires. | Explore one of humanity's deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. |
| Related Resource Link: | PBS NEWSHOUR: Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns to Earth After Year in Space | PBS NEWSHOUR: Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns to Earth After Year in Space | How Saturn's Rings Formed | The Planets: Saturn | Islamic Art | Realism: Landscape |
| Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Science | Science | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) |
| Program Title: | Spy in the Wild 2: A Nature Miniseries: The Tropics | Life from Above: Patterned Planet | NOVA: The Planets: Ice Worlds | Civilizations, Episode 7: Color and Light | Civilizations, Episode 8: The Cult of Progress |
| Description: | Robotic spy creatures investigate the wildlife that thrives in the tropics by infiltrating a hippo pod, a nursery of red flying foxes, a gorilla sanctuary, and the secret world of pygmy forest elephants. | See what causes the weird shapes on Earth's surface only seen from space. | Explore the unexpected discoveries about objects in the farthest reaches of the solar system. | Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. | Examine the rise and fall of "progress" as an ideology. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Engineering Robotic Cameras to Observe Animals in Nature | Global Precipitation | Uranus, The Sideways Planet | The Planets: Ice Worlds | Canterbury Cathedral | Profiles of the American West: George Catlin |
| Friday, January 1, 2021 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Science | Science | Civics | Civics | ELA |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) |
| Program Title: | Animal Babies: First Year on Earth: New Frontiers | Life from Above: Changing Planet | American Masters: Sammy Davis Jr., I've Gotta Be Me (2-4 PM) | American Masters: Sammy Davis Jr., I've Gotta Be Me (Cont.) | American Masters: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Description: | Join the baby animals as they near the end of their first year of life—it's time for these young ones to branch off from the comfort of their mothers and learn to explore the great unknown on their own. | Cameras in space show just how fast our planet is changing. | The first major film documentary to examine Sammy Davis, Jr.'s vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th century America.
| The first major film documentary to examine Sammy Davis, Jr.'s vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th century America.
| Explore the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin, whose groundbreaking work, including The Left Hand of Darkness, transformed American literature by bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Baby Season | Untamed | Coastline Change | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | AMERICAN MASTERS | Ursula K. Le Guin |
