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April 20 | Programming and Activities | Grades 4–8

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At-Home Learning: PBS SoCal and KCET, in partnership with LAUSD and in collaboration with California PBS stations, are offering broadcast programming with digital resources that adhere to California’s state curriculum. Download this week’s schedule.

Monday on KLCS

8:00 a.m.

Nova: Meteor Strike

NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? Protecting Earth from Asteroids - Video
NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? Protecting Earth from Asteroids - Discussion Questions

9:00 a.m.

History Detectives: Photograph of African Americans in Confederate Uniform

Wearing the Confederate Uniform: Slave or Soldier? - Video
History Detectives, Civil War: Blacks on the Battlefield - Lesson Plan, Video, and Activity
History Detectives: Internet Scavenger Hunt - Interactive

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Sergeant A.M. Chandler of Co. F, 44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, and Silas Chandler, family slave, with Bowie knives, revolvers, pepper-box, shotgun, and canteen | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

10:00 a.m.

Africa’s Great Civilizations: Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations

Agriculture and Commerce in West Africa, 300-1000 CE - Printable Activity
Agriculture and Commerce in West Africa, 300-1000 CE - Rubric
Empires: Queen Victoria, History of a Realm - Background Reading

11:00 a.m.

Breakthrough Ideas that Changed the World: The Smartphone

Media Make: #WhatsMyIssue Video - Webpage Interactive
When to Introduce Your Child to a Smartphone or Tablet - Parent Article

12:00 p.m.

Nova: Meteor Strike

Asteroids - Webpage Images
Make Asteroids You Can Eat! - Recipe
Asteroids: Crash Course Astronomy - Video

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Bennu and other asteroids represent building blocks of our solar system’s rocky planets. |

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