April 27 | Grades 4–8

April 20, 2020

Get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding a Civil War-era tintype and explore some massive meteors, ancient African civilizations and how smartphones changed the world.

Programming

Monday on Arizona PBS

6:30 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
7:30 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

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
8:30 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
9:30 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
10:30 a.m. Nova: Meteor Strike

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

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