| |
| |
PROGRAM LIST |
Media Menu, February 6, 2010
|
| |
Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below the tv listing contains further details about the show and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show. |
|
Saturday, February 6, 2010,
8-10 p.m. E/PSunday January 31 9P Sunday January 31 8P
|
HBO
|
Science
and Technology
|
Middle and High School
|
“
Temple
Grandin
”Next PrimeTime
AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
Based on “Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autism” by Dr. Temple
Grandin and starring Golden Globe
winner Claire Danes in the title role, this biographical film chronicles Grandin’s early diagnosis; her
turbulent growth and development during her school years; the enduring
support she received from her mother, her aunt and her science teacher; and her emergence as a woman with an
innate sensitivity and understanding of animal behavior. Undaunted by educational, social and
professional roadblocks, Grandin turned her unique talent into a behavioral
tool that revolutionized the cattle industry and laid the groundwork for her
successful career as an author, lecturer and pioneering advocate for autism
and autism spectrum disorder education.
|
Log on
http://www.hbo.com/movies/temple-grandin/index.html and http://www.templegrandin.com
|
|
| |
Saturday, February 6, 2010,
10-11 p.m. E/P
|
Planet Green
|
Science
and Economics
|
Middle and High School
|
“What’s On Your Plate?”Next PrimeTime
AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
This is a documentary about kids and food politics.
Filmed over the course of one year, it follows two eleven-year-old
multi-racial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie
and Safiyah take a close look at food systems in
New York City
and its surrounding areas.
With the camera as their companion, the girl guides talk to each other, as
well as to food activists, farmers, new friends, storekeepers, their
families, and the viewer, in their quest to understand what’s on all of our
plates. The girls address questions regarding the origin of the food they eat, how it’s
cultivated, how many miles it travels from the harvest to their plate, how
it’s prepared, who prepares it, and what is done afterwards with the
packaging and leftovers. They visit the usual supermarkets, fast food chains,
and school lunchrooms, but they also check into innovative sustainable food
system practices by going to farms, greenmarkets, and community supported
agriculture programs. They discover that these programs help struggling
farmers to survive and additionally provide affordable, locally-grown food to
communities, especially to lower-income urban families. TV-G
|
Log on
http://www.whatsonyourplateproject.org
|
|
| |
Sunday,
February 7, 2010,
4:30-5
p.m. ET, 1:30-2 p.m. PT
|
CBS
|
U.S.
History
|
Elementary, Middle and High School
|
“Presidential Interview”Next PrimeTime
AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
This is the President's first broadcast
interview since his State of the Union Address. It will air during Sunday's Super Bowl
Pre-Game Show. CBS EVENING NEWS Anchor and Managing
Editor Katie Couric will talk with President Barack Obama in a live interview
containing questions solicited from CBS affiliate viewers across the country.
|
|
| |
Sunday, February 7, 2010,
10-11:30
p.m. E/P
|
PBS
|
U.S.
History and
Arts
|
High School
|
“GREAT
PERFORMANCES: Harlem in
Montmartre
” Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
Airing during the observance of Black History
Month, this is a documentary about of the African-American expatriate
community in
Paris
between the First and Second World Wars. American jazz singer and bandleader
Cab Calloway once said, “You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmy
Luncefords, the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz
was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the
ordinary ones.” Far from ordinary,
this documentary tells the story of the long-forgotten “extraordinary ones,”
who left
America
to create
the jazz age in
Paris
between the First and Second World Wars. After peace was signed at
Versailles
, many black Americans remained in Europe
rather than return to the brutal segregation and racism of
America
. Over
the next two decades, they formed an expatriate community of musicians,
entertainers and entrepreneurs, primarily congregating in
Paris
’
hilly
Montmartre
neighborhood. Some achieved
enduring fame, while others faded into history.
|
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/harlem-in-montmartre/the-story-of-louis-mitchell/917
|
|
| |
Monday, February, 8, 2010,
10-11 p.m. E/P
|
Planet Green
|
World
History and Economics
|
Elementary, Middle, and High School
|
“BLOOD, SWEAT & T-SHIRTS: The Backstreet
Workshop” Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
In this documentary a group of hip
fashion victims - with closets full of cheap, chic brands – get a lesson on
the true cost of their fashion habits after they head to
India
to work
on a production line churning out hundreds of items of clothing per day. They
will learn the hard way the price of their habit from the workers who toil
daily to produce the outfits they wear. They travel to
West
Delhi
to live and work alongside the migrant tailors of a
backstreet workshop. It’s a real departure from the slick production lines
they expected– as they come face to face with a world where the workers can
spend up to 15 hours a day at their sewing machines.
|
Log on http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/blood-sweat-tshirts/show-info.html
|
|
| |
Monday, February, 8, 2010,
10-11:30 p.m. E/P
|
PBS
|
U.S.
History and
Technology
|
Elementary, Middle, and High School
|
“BLUEPRINT
AMERICA
:
Beyond the
Motor
City
” Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
The latest installment in the
BLUEPRINT AMERICA documentary miniseries takes viewers on a cinematic journey
in search of
America
’s
transportation future. With
Detroit
,
Michigan
, as home
base, the film hop-scotches across the globe in an effort to look at what’s
possible.
|
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica
|
|
| |
Tuesday, February 9, 2010,
10-11 p.m. E/P
|
Animal Planet Channel
|
Science
and Geography
|
Middle, and High School
|
“WILD RECON:
Costa Rica
” Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
In this documentary host Donald
Schultz travels to ground zero for biodiversity – the rainforests of
Costa Rica
.
His mission: find and extract toxin, blood and venom samples that may hold
keys to human pharmaceutical breakthroughs from a range of animals, including
poison dart frogs, a three-toed sloth and a newly discovered species of sea
snake.
|
Log on http://animal.discovery.com/tv/wild-recon/about.html
|
|
| |
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 8-9 p.m. E/P
|
PBS
|
U.S.
and World
History
|
Middle, and High School
|
“FACES OF
AMERICA
WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.: “The
Promise of
America
” PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
This is the
initial episode of a 4-part documentary miniseries. Using DNA testing and genealogical
research, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers investigations of the family stories
and ancestry of a group of renowned
Americans. Episode one explores the dynamic and shifting relationship
America
had with her new immigrants in the 20th century. World wars tore
apart families and sundered the fabric of many lives, but
America
beckoned and millions came.
America
was an ambivalent host, however. At its best, it was a place of refuge and
salvation, as it was for film director Mike Nichols, whose entire family escaped
Nazi Germany. At its worst, it was a country that would imprison two
generations of Japanese Americans, including the forebears of Olympic gold
medalist Kristi Yamaguchi. Viewers will discover the buoyant American
optimism that shaped chance — as in a single encounter that changed cellist
Yo-Yo Ma’s life forever — to pave the road to success. TV-PG
|
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica
|
|
| |
Thursday, February 11, 2010,
9-10 p.m. E/P
|
Discovery Channel
|
Science
and World History
|
Middle, and High School
|
“
Haiti
's Killer
Quake: Why It Happened ”Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
Discovery Channel documentary makers
travel to
Haiti
to take a close-up look at the science behind the magnitude 7.0 earthquake
that hit the island January 12, 2010. Find out when and where the next
"big one" might strike. Rated TV-14
|
Log on
http://www.pbs.org/parents/supersisters/archives/2010/01/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about.html
|
|
| |
Friday,
February 12, 2010,
7-8
p.m. E/P
|
History Channel
|
Science
and Technology
|
Middle and High School
|
“Modern Marvels: Coin Operated”Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime
Airing
|
Americans insert over 3.5 million coins into vending machines
every 15 minutes every day. This documentary takes viewers to a sprawling
factory that mass produces the latest in high-tech vending machines, and a
small company that makes a giant gumball machine that holds 40,000 gumballs.
Then, there's the dreaded parking meter, including new ones that can take
credit cards and text message for help when they are being robbed or
vandalized. We'll visit
America
's
last pinball factory, and see what strange coin operated fare kept people
amused 100 years ago. Is coin counting Coinstar the ultimate coin operated
machine? We'll follow their coins all the way to a Brinks
warehouse. Our last stop is Marvin's
Marvelous
Mechanized
Museum
, housing some of
the weirdest coin-op machines ever invented. Rating TV-PG
|
|
| |
Friday, February 12, 2010, beginning 7:30 p.m. E/P
|
NBC
|
Science
and Health
|
Elementary, Middle and High School
|
“Opening Ceremony: The 21st Olympic Winter Games”Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime Airing
|
This is a broadcast of the opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic Winter Games from
Vancouver
,
Canada
. Coverage begins at 7:30p
ET/PT Special Note: A free video series (see
below) from NBC and the National Science Foundation uses the Winter Olympics
and athletes to explain scientific principles and could be used as a resource
for teachers interested in incorporating the games in Vancouver, Canada – available from Feb. 12 to 28 -- into their
lessons. The videos include a look at how angular momentum allows figure
skaters to perform, the role of
Newton
's
Three Laws of Motion in speed skating and other principles.
|
For event listings on NBC, CNBC
and MSNBC and
USA
networks http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv-listings/index.html The NBC-LEARN site is http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn
|
|
| |
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 2:15-5:45 p.m. ET,
11-15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. PT
|
TCM-Turner Classic Movies
|
Literature
and World History
|
High School
|
“War And Peace”Next PrimeTime AiringNext PrimeTime
Airing
|
This is the 1956 movie version of a Leo
Tolstoy novel often included in lists of the ten best novels in the world. It’s about a young Russian girl who fights
to save her family during Napoleon's invasion of her homeland. Rating TV-PG
.Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda. Director: King Vidor. Available in video.
(Note: An Oscar-nominated (2010) movie about Tolstoy’s life, “The Last
Station”, is playing currently in movie theatres.)
|
For a summary of the plot of
this 1956 movie log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=95063. For information about the novel,
including its full text log on http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/war_and_peace
|
|
|
|
| |
 |
|
|