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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: Science Engineering Science Social Studies Social Studies Grade Band: (Grades 9-12) (Grades 6-8) (Grades 6-8) (Grades 6-12) (Grades 6-12) Program Title: NOVA: Dead Sea Scroll NOVA: Secrets of the NOVA: Bigger Than T. rex Ken Burns's The National Ken Burns's The National Detectives Forbidden City Parks: America's Best Parks: America's Best Idea, Ep. 5: Great Nature Idea, Ep. 5: Great Nature (1933-1945) (3-6 PM) (1933-1945) (Cont.)

Description: Stunning new Explore how the inner rocky Once a water world with Examine the formative role Explore how we look at the archaeological evidence planets of the solar system active volcanoes, Mars is of art and the creative human body in art. provides clues about the formed and evolved. now a frozen desert planet: imagination in the forging of Egyptians who built the Could life ever have existed humanity. Great Pyramid of Giza—and there? how they did it. Related PBS Building the Pyramids of NOVA: Death Dive to Saturn Life on Mars? Treasures of the World | Art and Social Studies LearningMedia Resource Ancient Egypt | Saturn's Dynamic Rings Borobudur Collection Link:

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: NOVA: Inside Animal NOVA: The Planets: Civilizations, Episode 3: Civilizations, Episode 4: Animals of Winter Minds: Who's the Jupiter God and Art Encounters Smartest? Description: Travel across the snow Could the skills required to Learn about Jupiter's role in Consider how religion has See how art became the globe with wildlife keep track of friend and foe the formation and evolution inspired art and how art has great interface when distant cameraman Gordon make animals smarter? To of the solar system. inspired divine cultures met for the first Buchanan to meet animal find out, go inside the social representation. time. survivors of winter, from the lives of the smartest animals of Antarctica, to on the planet. the Arctic fox, to the bison of Yellowstone. Related PBS Adaptations of Arctic Plan Ahead Map a Model Solar System The Core Tenets of Around the Globe: Japan LearningMedia Resource Animals Hinduism Link:

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Time 12 pm 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm Theme, if applicable (e.g., Science Science Science Social Studies Social Studies Disaster Monday): 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: Civilizations, Episode 5: Civilizations, Episode 6: Saturn Renaissances Paradise on Earth One-sentence description: Follow astronaut Scott Scott Kelly spent a year in See the results of Cassini, Travel east and west—to Explore one of humanity's Kelly's record-breaking 12- space: What happened the spacecraft that spent 13 Renaissance Italy and to the deepest artistic urges: the month mission on the when he returned, and how years exploring Saturn and contemporaneous Islamic depiction of nature. International Space Station, did the time in space affect its moons. empires. from launch to landing, as his body? NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight by comparing him to his identical twin on Earth, astronaut Mark Kelly.

Related Resource Link: PBS NEWSHOUR: PBS NEWSHOUR: How Saturn's Rings Formed Islamic Art Realism: Landscape Astronaut Scott Kelly Astronaut Scott Kelly | The Planets: Saturn Returns to Earth After Year Returns to Earth After Year in Space in Space

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 Life from Above: NOVA: The Planets: Ice Civilizations, Episode 7: Civilizations, Episode 8: Nature Miniseries: The Patterned Planet Worlds Color and Light The Cult of Progress Tropics Description: Robotic spy creatures See what causes the weird Explore the unexpected Explore light and color in art Examine the rise and fall of investigate the wildlife that shapes on Earth's surface discoveries about objects in in the search for greater "progress" as an ideology. thrives in the tropics by only seen from space. the farthest reaches of the realism and spiritual infiltrating a hippo pod, a solar system. ecstasy. nursery of red flying foxes, a gorilla sanctuary, and the secret world of pygmy forest elephants. Related PBS Engineering Robotic Global Precipitation Uranus, The Sideways Canterbury Cathedral Profiles of the American LearningMedia Resource Cameras to Observe Planet | The Planets: Ice West: George Catlin Link: Animals in Nature Worlds 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 Life from Above: American Masters: American Masters: American Masters: Worlds on Earth: New Frontiers Changing Planet Sammy Davis Jr., I've Sammy Davis Jr., I've of Ursula K. Le Guin Gotta Be Me (2-4 PM) Gotta Be Me (Cont.) Description: Join the baby animals as Cameras in space show just The first major film The first major film Explore the remarkable life they near the end of their how fast our planet is documentary to examine documentary to examine and legacy of the late first year of life—it's time for changing. Sammy Davis, Jr.'s vast Sammy Davis, Jr.'s vast feminist author Ursula K. Le these young ones to branch talent and his journey for talent and his journey for Guin, whose off from the comfort of their identity through the shifting identity through the shifting groundbreaking work, mothers and learn to explore tides of civil rights and racial tides of civil rights and racial including The Left Hand of the great unknown on their progress during 20th century progress during 20th century Darkness, transformed own. America. America. American literature by bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream.

Related PBS Baby Season | Untamed Coastline Change Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta AMERICAN MASTERS | LearningMedia Resource Be Me Be Me Ursula K. Le Guin Link: