May 15 | Grades 9–12

Friday on Arizona PBS

11:30 a.m. The Amazing Human Body – Survive

Tuberculosis in America: Antibiotic Treatment of Tuberculosis – Video
Science Trek: Blood – Video and Support Materials 
The Nervous System: Crash Course Biology – Video


12:30 p.m. Shakespeare Uncovered: The Merchant of Venice w/ F. Murray Abraham

Acceptance and the Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare Uncovered – Video and Support Materials
The Merchant of Venice: Evaluating Values / Shakespeare in the Schools – Video 
Learning Media Lesson for Merchant of Venice – Lesson Plan

A man in a darkened movie theater watches a black and white film featuring Venice.
Actor F. Murray Abraham watches an old film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” | Still from “Acceptance and the Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare Uncovered” / PBS LearningMedia

1:30 p.m. Civilizations – Encounters

The Japanese-Portuguese Encounter | Civilizations – Video and Support Materials
The Benin – Portuguese Encounter – Video and Support Materials
The Spain-Aztec Mexico Encounter | Civilizations – Video and Support Materials


2:30 p.m. The Chinese Exclusion Act: American Experience

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Resource Materials – Image and Background Reading
The Chinese Exclusion Act – Teacher’s Guide
Before It Embraced Immigrants, California Championed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Advertisement featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam kicking a Chinese man.
“The Chinese Must Go” (1886) by Shober & Carqueville Lith Co. | Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Illustration of columns of a capitol building with text reading: Arizona PBS AZ Votes 2024
airs April 18

Arizona PBS presents candidate debates as part of ‘AZ Votes 2024’

Earth Day Challenge graphic with the Arizona PBS logo and an illustration of the earth

Help us meet the Earth Day Challenge!

Graphic for the AZPBS kids LEARN! Writing Contest with a child sitting in a chair writing on a table and text reading: The Ultimate Field Trip
May 12

Submit your entry for the 2024 Writing Contest

The Capital building with text reading: Circle on Circle: Robert Lowell's D.C.
May 2

An evening with ‘Poetry in America’

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