April 24 | Programming and Activities | Grades 9–12

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.

Friday on KCET

9:00 a.m.

The Great American Read: What We Do for Love

The Call of the Wild - Video (2:31) and Discussion Questions
Looking for Alaska - Video (2:26) and Discussion Questions
An Iconic Character | Little Women - Video (2:29) and Lesson Plan

10:00 a.m.

The Windermere Children

Integrating into a New Culture as a Refugee | FILMS BYKIDS - Video (5:32) and Discussion Questions
You Have to Speak Up: Lessons from the Holocaust | PBS NewsHour - Video (3:48) and Supported Materials
Remembering the Holocaust - Video (6:19)

men — Men line up next to a train to be taken to concentration camps | Still from "You Have to Speak Up: Lessons from the Holocaust | PBS NewsHour"

11:30 a.m.

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

Welcome to Canada | Global Oneness Project - Video (19:24)
A Refugee’s Story | Global Oneness Project - Lesson Plan

12:30 p.m.

POV Shorts: Joe’s Violin

Lesson Plan: Healing Through Cross-Generational Friendships - POV Website (archived)

1:00 p.m.

H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: Pulse

NOVA: Finding Life Beyond Earth | Water Formation Hypothesis - Video (3:36) and Support Materials
Will There Be Enough Fresh Water? - Interactive

2:00 p.m.

Nova: Lethal Seas

Researching Impacts of Ocean Acidification - Video (5:34) and Support Materials
NOVA Next | Palau’s Improbably Healthy Coral Reefs - Article and Support Materials
Acidic Seas - Video (5:18) and Teacher Guide

Friday on KLCS

1:00 p.m.

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Shakespeare’s Life - Background Reading
Shakespeare Uncovered: Shakespeare's Life and Art, Student Organizer - Printable Activity
Shakespeare Uncovered: Does Art Imitate Life? - Activity

3:00 p.m.

The Poison Squad: American Experience

The Great Electric Sugar Con - Article
Dr. Harvey Wiley: Father of Pure Food - Video

poisonsquad-book-2-sugar-puck_our-mutual-friend.jpg__1000x902_q85_crop_subsampling-2 — Cover image from an 1885 issue of Puck highlighting the perception that the medical and mortuary professions were the end result of eating chemical sugars. “Our Mutual Friend,” Puck 16 (January 7, 1885): 1. | American Experience

5:00 p.m.

The Man Who Tried To Feed the World: American Experience

No Silver Bullet Solution’: Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution - Article
The Green Revolution: Norman Borlaug and the Race to Fight Global Hunger - Article

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