| Week of Monday, November 23, 2020 |
| (All Times Eastern, Check Local Listings) |
| Monday, November 23, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Science | Science | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 9-12 | (Grades 6-9) | (Grades 6-9) |
| Program Title: | Prehistoric Road Trip: Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts | NOVA: Making North America: Human | Power Trip: The Story of Energy: Cities | Secrets of the Dead: Scanning the Pyramids | Africa's Great Civilizations, Episode 3: Empires of Gold |
| Description: | Join Emily as she continues her adventure, discovering surprising truths hidden in the fossil record, while other scientists studying our planet's past are revealing clues about its future. | How has the land shaped our lives, from the arrival of the first Americans to today? | See how the future of cities, which shape our relationship with the natural and built environment, and energy are closely connected. | Tracing the origin of the legends of secret chambers hidden in the heart of the pyramid, Secrets of the Dead will show what lies within, solving a 4,500-year-old mystery, by following the first scientific mission in 30 years to be authorized by the Egyptian government to examine the pyramids of Egypt | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the complex trade networks and advanced educational institutions that transformed early north and west Africa from deserted lands into the continent’s wealthiest kingdoms and learning epicentres. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Antarctica's Ice-Free Past | Polar Extremes | NOVA: Making North America - Collection | Deciding Your City's Energy Future | Building the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt | Africa's Great Civilizations - Collection |
| Tuesday, November 24, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Math | Math | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grade 6 / Grade 7) | (Grade 8/Algebra 1) | (Grades 9-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-9) |
| Program Title: | Illustrative Math Grade 6 Unit 6 Lesson 2
Illustrative Math Grade 7 Unit 5 Lesson 6 | Illustrative Math Grade 8 Unit 5 Lessons 9, 10
/ Illustrative Math Algebra 1 Unit 6 Lesson 14 | Power Trip: The Story of Energy: War | History Detectives | Africa's Great Civilizations, Episode 4: Cities |
| Description: | Truth and Equations /
Subtracting Rational Numbers
| Linear Models /
Graphs that Represent Situations
| Discover how energy, depending on how it's used, can lead to either peace or conflict. | History Detectives investigates the mystery behind an unusual Navajo rug. | Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the power of Africa’s greatest ancient cities, including Kilwa, Great Zimbabwe and Benin City, whose wealth, art and industrious successes attracted new European interest and interaction along the continent’s east and west coasts. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Grade 6 video lessonpreview/ Grade 7 video lesson preview | Grade 8 video lesson preview / Algebra 1 lessonpreview | Connecting Questions: Natural Resources | Native American Heritage Collection | Africa's Great Civilizations - Collection |
| Wednesday, November 25, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Science | Science | Seasonal Culture and Wildlife | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-9) |
| Program Title: | Animal Babies: First Year on Earth: First Steps | Spy in the Wild 2: A Nature Miniseries: The North | Autumnwatch New England, Episode 1 | History Detectives | Africa's Great Civilizations, Episode 5: The Atlantic Age |
| Description: | See the challenges young animals can face in their first year, whether fighting for survival in the wild or learning to coexist with humans. | Travel to the northern hemisphere, where the spy creatures learn how animals move, feed, and fight. | Discover how cranberries and pumpkins became fall fundamentals, see rare bird art, and follow gangs of turkeys and nighttime critters. | Our contributor found a photograph along with a note in the Lakota language dated 1904. The note claims, "This is a photograph of Crazy Horse." Does our contributor have the Holy Grail of the Wild West: a photo of the Lakota warrior who defeated General Custer? | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the impact of the Atlantic trading world, giving rise to powerful new kingdoms, but also transatlantic slave trade. Learn of the revolutionary movements of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including the advent of the Sokoto Caliphate. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | NATURE: The Panda Baby - Introduction | Engineering Robotic Cameras to Observe Animals in Nature | A History of Thanksgiving | Historical Photographs | Africa's Great Civilizations - Collection |
| Thursday, November 26, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Science | Science | Science | Social Studies | Social Studies |
| Grade Band: | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-8) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-9) |
| Program Title: | Animal Babies: First Year on Earth: Testing Limits | Spy in the Wild 2: A Nature Miniseries: The Tropics | Life from Above: Patterned Planet | History Detectives | Africa's Great Civilizations, Episode 6: Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations |
| Description: | Learn the new challenges baby animals face once they can get around on their own as they learn to search for food, survive in harsh environments, and bond with family members. | 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. | More than a century and a half after these violent events, History Detectives takes a closer look at an old paper that shows President Millard Fillmore engaged in what appears to be an unusual act for the time—sparing the life of a Native American convicted of murder. | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the dynamism of 19th-century Africa, the “Scramble” by European powers for its riches, and the defiant and successful stand of uncolonized Ethiopia. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Baby Season | Untamed | Engineering Robotic Cameras to Observe Animals in Nature | Global Precipitation | Native American Heritage Collection | Africa's Great Civilizations - Collection |
| Friday, November 27, 2020 |
| 12 pm | 1 pm | 2 pm | 3 pm | 4 pm |
| Curriculum/Theme: | Math | Math | Seasonal Culture and Wildlife | Seasonal Culture and Wildlife | Seasonal Culture and Wildlife |
| Grade Band: | (Grade 6/Grade 7) | (Grade 8/Algebra 1) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) | (Grades 6-12) |
| Program Title: | Illustrative Math Grade 6 Unit 6 Lesson 4/Illustrative Math Grade 7 Unit 5 Lesson 8 | Illustrative Math Grade 8 Unit 6 Lesson 3 / Illustrative Math Algebra 1 Unit 7 Lesson 2 | Autumnwatch New England, Episode 2 | Autumnwatch New England, Episode 3 | Autumnwatch New England, Episode 1 |
| Description: | Practice Solving Equations and Representing Situations with Equations/ Position, Speed,and Direction | What a Point in a Scatter Plot Means / When and Why Do We Write Quadratic Equations | Explore New England culture and learn about leaf-changing science and see wildlife at night. | Swirl into the world of maple syrup, discover the magic of caterpillars and learn more about the birds soaring across New England skies each fall. | Discover how cranberries and pumpkins became fall fundamentals, see rare bird art and follow gangs of turkeys and nighttime critters. |
| Related PBS LearningMedia Resource Link: | Grade 6 video lessonpreview / Grade 7 video lessonpreview | Grade 8 video lessonpreview / Algebra 1 lesson preview | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Pilgrims: The Beaver Trade and Colonial New England | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Pilgrims - Collection | A History of Thanksgiving |
