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September-October 2010 We Connect New York... to dynamic educational resources! In an effort to help educators plan ahead, we will be posting our online newsletter bi-monthly. As information often changes quickly, please visit our What’s New page regularly to keep abreast of the latest information on WCNY educational resources.
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VITAL is an online library of K-12 curriculum-aligned video content and support activities for New York State Educators featuring public television content. Stream or download video, audio, flash interactive activities, and images. ************************ 
New York State’s Contemporary Canal System documentary and educator's guide make up an instructional unit on the Erie Canal, past and present. Stream the entire documentary or location specific clips.
Colonial Williamsburg 2010-2011 Electronic Field Trip Series These electronic field trips are excellent tools for teaching American history, meeting state standards for history education, engaging students in the heritage of America, and developing participating citizens in the ongoing American experiment in democracy. While viewing the electronic field trips is free to all who receive our broadcast signal, teachers can elect to subscribe to the series or individual programs to allow their students to participate live and to receive addition resources. There will be one electronic field trip each month from October 2010 to April 2011. The Will of the People
One of the most bitter presidential campaigns in U. S. history is part of a surprising lesson for a 21st-century student. Thomas Jefferson explains how negative campaigning, partisan politics, and contested elections have been part of our political system since the earliest days of the republic.
Thursday, October 14, 2010 @ 10 am Click here for complete 2010-2011 schedule For more information about the Emmy Award-winning series of live, interactive television broadcasts, teacher guides, and online resources call 1.800.761.8331, email EFTSupport@cwf.org or visit www.history.org/trips © 2010 The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Science at 6:30 Weekdays Beginning Labor Day, WCNY will broadcast an early morning science rotation from 6:30-7:00 am Monday through Friday. Each day, a different science oriented series will be featured. Each series has the goal of making science fun and offers online resources through their respective Web sites. SciGirls
SciGirls is a new show for kids ages 8-12 that is designed to spark a girl's curiosity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). The show is all about hands-on science inquiry. Participants learn the scientific process, work collaboratively to investigate meaningful questions and see how STEM helps people solve problems, achieve goals, and help others.
Mondays @ 6:30 am Curiosity Quest
Curiosity Quest is an upbeat, family, educational program that explores what viewers are curious about. In each show, host Joel Greene ventures on a quest to answer viewer's letters of curiosity.
Tuesdays @ 6:30 am Dragonfly TV
DRAGONFLYTV features real kids (ages nine to 13) doing real science. The show encourages all kids to discover the wonders of science by rolling up their sleeves and participating.
Wednesdays @ 6:30 am Design Squad
Design Squad is high-energy, high-drama reality TV that lets kids show off their smarts as they design and build working solutions for real-world clients—people who are hungry for clever ideas from a new generation of innovators.
Thursdays @ 6:30 am Everyday Edisons
Everybody has a great idea that could change the way we work, the way we live or the way we play. From thousands of hopefuls screened at nationwide casting calls, each season the Everyday Edisons crew hand selects an elite few to transform their extraordinary ideas from a sketch on a napkin to a store shelf.
Fridays @ 6:30 am
Homework Hotline is the live statewide call-in show where kids receive help with homework problems right on the air. Designed for children in grades four through twelve (4-12), Homework Hotline provides the tools students need to succeed with homework, and supports academic achievement across a variety of New York State Learning Standards. Teachers from Rochester Dial-A-Teacher and New York City Dial-A-Teacher take the calls and send them to WXXI studios in Rochester, where host teachers, who are experts in subjects across the curriculum, are standing by ready to help kids work through their homework assignments live on television. Visit HH online at homework-hotline.org.
Monday-Thursday @ 5:30 pm (on school days beginning 9/13)
Assignment: The World is a weekly 15-minute news program targeted at fourth through eighth graders (4-8). ATW is the connection for children to current events and is designed to be used in the classroom. A fast-paced, interactive program covers the top news stories of the week from around the world. For more Information visit atwonline.org. Produced by WXXI Public Broadcasting in conjunction with The Associated Press; Assignment: The World is the nation's longest-running classroom program. ATW host Teej Jenkins brings the top news stories from around the globe each week, guiding students through complex issues in a safe environment. In addition to its news reports on current events, the show presents a variety of interactive components that challenge its audience to respond to “Clues in the News” and to practice map skills, using longitude and latitude coordinates onscreen to locate news hot spots on globes and maps in class.
Fridays @ 2 pm (beginning 9/17)
New Show Begins Monday, September 6th! PBS KIDS and Random House join to support science learning for preschoolers nationwide with the premiere of THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! On Labor Day. Voiced by award-winning actor Martin Short, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat guides friends Sally and Nick – with a little help from the Fish, Thing 1 and Thing 2 – on fun-filled adventures where they make natural-science discoveries, from how bees make honey to why owls sleep during the day. Filled with both adventure and silliness, THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT!, based on the acclaimed The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library book series, will appeal to preschoolers’ natural curiosity, and engage them in the process of scientific exploration and discovery. Visit The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! for online and printable resources.
BECOMING HUMAN: BIRTH OF HUMANITY - Top anthropologists investigate new discoveries that transform the picture of how we became human.
Tuesday, 9/7 @ 8 pm BECOMING HUMAN: LAST HUMAN STANDING - Top anthropologists investigate new discoveries that transform the picture of how we became human.
Tuesday, 9/14 @ 8 pm WHAT DARWIN NEVER KNEW - Questions what really drives evolution, what turns one species into another and how humans evolve.
Tuesday, 9/21 @ 8 pm ASTROSPIES - Author Jim Bamford probes the untold story of a former top-secret military manned space program.
Tuesday, 10/5 @ 8 pm SECRETS OF THE PARTHENON - Examines the challenging and controversial restoration of one of the world’s best known buildings.
Tuesday, 10/12 @ 8 pm BUILDING THE GREAT CATHEDRALS - Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, Gothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement.
Tuesday, 10/19 @ 8 pm CRASH OF FLIGHT 447 - NOVA pieces together the events leading up to the Flight 447 disaster.
Tuesday, 10/26 @ 8 pm
DRAKENSBERG: BARRIER OF SPEARS - Beneath the mountains in Southern Africa lies a hostile environment for creatures that live there.
Sunday, 9/5 @ 8 pm DOGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: The Rise of the Dog (Part 1 of 2) - Examine the evolution of dogs from their wolf ancestors & learn how they infiltrated human society.
Sunday, 9/12 @ 8 pm DOGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: Dogs By Design (Part 2 of 2) - As we transform the many breeds of dogs, we change our relationship with them and theirs with us.
Sunday, 9/19 @ 8 pm CUBA: THE ACCIDENTAL EDEN - The rise in tourism may greatly affect the small island’s stunning biodiversity and wild landscapes.
Sunday, 9/26 @ 8 pm BLACK MAMBA - Scientists aim to change the public perception of one of Africa’s most dangerous and feared snakes.
Sunday, 10/3 @ 8 pm THE WOLF THAT CHANGED AMERICA - Ernest Thompson Seton’s tale of a wolf encounter captured the essence of the vanishing wilderness.
Sunday, 10/10 @ 8 pm ECHO: AN ELEPHANT TO REMEMBER - The series’ third film on the world-famous elephant matriarch who died of natural causes last fall.
Sunday, 10/17 @ 8 pm A MURDER OF CROWS - Captivating new footage of crows as you have never seen them before.
Sunday, 10/24 @ 8 pm INVASION OF THE GIANT PYTHONS - Predatory pythons slithered into the wilderness of Florida’s Everglades National Park and thrived.
Sunday, 10/31 @ 8 pm
AFTER THE MAYFLOWER
Decades of English immigration and lethal epidemics brought the Indians to the brink of disaster.
Monday, 10/18 @ 9 pm TECUMSEH'S VISION
Tenskwatawa’s spiritual revival movement tried to create an Indian Nation and stop white expansion.
Monday, 10/25 @ 9 pm
GREAT PERFORMANCES RENEE FLEMING & DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY: A MUSICAL ODYSSEY
The American soprano and Russian baritone visit the most spectacular locations of St. Petersburg.
Wednesday, 9/1 @ 9 pm PETE SEEGER’S 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and more join the legendary folk artist.
Thursday, 9/16 @ 9:30 pm HAMLET
Simon Keenlyside and Marlis Petersen bring extraordinary skills to this Ambroise Thomas production.
Sunday, 10/3 @ 2 pm MACBETH
Originating at England’s innovative Chichester Festival Theatre, director Rupert Goold’s exciting interpretation relocates the bloody action to a nameless 20th century nether world starring Patrick Stewart in a triumphant, Tony-nominated performance and Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood Lady Macbeth.
Wednesday, 10/6 @ 9 pm ARMADA
This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison.
Sunday, 10/10 @ 2 pm SIMON BOCCANEGRA
Placido Domingo stars in this tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.
Sunday, 10/17 @ 2 pm THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI INAUGURAL PERFORMANCE
Riccardo Muti’s arrival as the tenth Music Director of the renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is the big news this fall in classical music. The inaugural excitement of the CSO’s October concert features a piece by Paul Hindemith as well as the world premiere of Bernard Rands’ Danza Petrificada, a CSO commission inspired by the words of Mexican poet Octavio Paz. A passionate proponent of the music of Luigi Cherubini—the Italian composer revered by Beethoven and who mentored Berlioz—Muti will mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth with a performance of Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor.
Wednesday, 10/27 @ 9 pm
THE TENTH INNING is a two-part, four-hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. A new chapter in Burns’s landmark 1994 series, BASEBALL, THE TENTH INNING tells the tumultuous story of the national pastime from the 1990s to the present day. Introducing an unforgettable array of players, teams and fans, the film showcases the era's extraordinary accomplishments and heroics – as well as its devastating losses and disappointments. TENTH INNING: TOP OF THE TENTH
Focuses on the bitter 1994 strike and the players who shattered historic records in the late 1990s.
Tuesday, 9/28 @ 8 pm TENTH INNING: BOTTOM OF THE TENTH
Rivalries, records and revelations about steroids impact baseball at the start of the 21st century.
Wednesday, 9/28 @ 8 pm
GOD IN AMERICA
Tells the sweeping and dramatic history of religion in the public life of America.
Monday, 10/11 @ 9 pm GOD IN AMERICA
How religious belief shaped the origins of the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln’s actions during the conflict.
Tuesday, 10/12 @ 9 pm GOD IN AMERICA
Explores the political aspirations of the religious right, the dynamics of the contemporary religious marketplace, and the re-emergence of a religious voice in the Democratic Party.
Wednesday, 10/13 @ 9 pm
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS/CAROLYN WONDERLAND - Saturday, 9/4 @ 11 pm
MY MORNING JACKET - Saturday, 9/11 @ 11 pm
AVETT BROTHERS/HEARTLESS BASTARDS - Saturday, 9/18 @ 11 pm
THEM CROOKED VULTURES - Saturday, 9/25 @ 11 pm
JIMMY CLIFF - Saturday, 10/2 @ 11 pm
SPOON - Saturday, 10/9 @ 11 pm
PATTY GRIFFIN & FRIENDS - Saturday, 10/16 @ 11 pm
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO/TROMBONE SHORTY - Saturday, 10/23 @ 11 pm
ROBERT EARL KEEN/HAYES CARLL - Saturday, 10/30 @ 11:20 pm
Additional Program Highlights
(September, 1 2010 - October 31, 2011)
FIRST YEAR TEACHERS
A look at two new teachers over the course of a year sheds light on the pressures facing educators.
Sunday, 9/5 @ 2 pm HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS
Adults in the Sacramento area go door-to-door catching truant students to reverse the dropout rate.
Sunday, 9/5 @ 2:30 pm HISTORY DETECTIVES - CHICAGO CLOCK, UNIVERSAL FRIENDS, WAR DOG LETTER
A woman wonders if her family clock kept time for the entire Midwest during the 19th century.
Monday, 9/6 @ 9 pm LAFAYETTE: THE LOST HERO
The story of the Marquis de Lafayette and his quest to bring democracy to America and France.
Monday, 9/13 @ 10:20 pm LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: OPENING NIGHT CONCERT 2010
Maestro Alan Gilbert conducts Wynton Marsalis’s “Swing Symphony” and Richard Strauss’s “Don Juan.”
Wednesday, 9/22 @ 9 pm YELLOWSTONE: LAND TO LIFE
The sweeping geologic story of Yellowstone explores the bonds between the landscape and biology.
Sunday, 9/26 @ 10:30 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
The rise and fall of Spain’s global empire from the reign of Isabel and Ferdinand to Philip II.
Monday, 9/27 @ 9 pm LORDS OF NATURE: LIFE IN A LAND OF GREAT PREDATORS
Scientists explore the role predators play in restoring and maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity.
Sunday, 10/3 @ 6 pm MYSTERY OF MEMORY
An eye-opening journey of discovery into the workings of the organ that forms memories, the brain.
Tuesday, 10/12 @ 11 pm PBS PREVIEWS: CIRCUS
A behind-the-scenes look at how the lives of those working under the big tent are documented.
Monday, 10/18 @ 10:30 pm
Sunday, 10/31 @ 10:30 pm FORT NIAGARA: THE STRUGGLE FOR A CONTINENT
Archival footage and military architecture from this strategic point that 4 nations fought for.
Monday, 10/25 @ 10:30 pm THE LAST RIDGE
National Public Radio’s Scott Simon narrates the remarkable story of the 10th Mountain Division.
Tuesday, 10/26 @ 11 pm SECRETS OF THE DEAD - HERCULANEUM UNCOVERED
Geo-archeologists chip away at soft rock to examine this city buried by a volcanic eruption.
Wednesday, 10/27 @ 10:30 pm FOOTPRINTS OF THE ICE AGE EFFECTS OF LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET ON LANDSCAPE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK
Sunday, 10/31 @ 3 pm RAILROAD EMPIRE
Explores the transcontinental railroad.
Sunday, 10/31 @ 6 pm
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