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Tiny Time Travel Video Playlist & Resources

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TINY TIME TRAVEL follows 11-year-old inventor, Tyler, and his outgoing best friend, Tony, as they use a time machine to go back in time a tiny bit (sometimes just a few minutes or hours), helping friends and neighbors solve problems along the way. These short, funny, fast-paced live-action videos aim to help kids ages 5-8 learn social language skills, like resolving miscommunication, taking account of others’ perspectives, and understanding nonverbal communication.

12 Video Short Episodes on PBSKIDS.org: https://pbskids.org/videos/tiny-time-travel or on the PBS KIDS Video Player App (free)

PBS KIDS for Parents Tiny Time Travel show page: https://www.pbs.org/parents/shows/tiny-time-travel.

PBS LearningMedia Educator Collection: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/tiny-time-travel/.


Norm & Company: Dr. Alice Holloway Young On-Demand

Norm & Company features Educational pioneer, Dr. Alice Holloway Young

Dr. Young was a Founding Trustee & Board Emerita at Monroe Community College (MCC) and has been a leader in the fight for greater equality in education. Dr. Young shared what it was like growing up on a farm in the rural South, her role in bringing the Urban-Suburban program to Rochester schools, how she became involved in MCC, and what she hoped her legacy will be.

Norm & Company is hosted by WXXI President & CEO Norm Silverstein, who speaks with long-time Rochesterians as they recount fascinating stories about their lives in the community. 

WXXI News article:

A longtime local educator has died. Alice Holloway Young, who fought for equity in education and helped establish both Monroe Community College and the Urban Suburban program died recently at the age of 100.

Holloway Young was a native of North Carolina, and moved to Rochester. She was the city school district’s first Black principal, and in 2021, Nathaniel Rochester Middle School No. 3 was renamed the Dr. Alice Holloway Young School of Excellence.

Spring is Here! Explore with PBS KIDS!

🌸🌼 Spring is Here ☔️🌷 Videos to Watch & Activities To Do

Explore the Outdoors Activities & Games

Explore the Outdoors with graphic flowers, bees, ladybugs, ant, leaves and compass

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PBS KIDS Eclipse Programs & Activities:

What & Where to Watch: WXXI Channels & Livestreams Guide:

Ready, Jet, Go! Episodes & Block Party Activities

Total Eclipse of the Sunspot; Sean’s Year in Space: Sunspot acts strange when Mindy, Jet, Sean and Syndey use a solar panel to try to improve energy efficiency; Sean is excited about NASA’s Year in Space program. Length: 30 Minutes

WXXI PBS Kids 24/7 & Live Stream | Saturday, Apr. 6 at 06:30 pm

Eye in the Sky; Total Eclipse Block Party: Bad weather threatens Sean’s first sleepout with his Space Scouts troop; the kids prepare a total eclipse song and dance. Length: 30 Minutes

WXXI PBS Kids 24/7 & Live Stream| Sunday, Apr. 7 at 06:30 pm

Activities:

Ready, Jet, Go! Solar Eclipse Clip & Song

Ready, Jet, Go! Solar Eclipse Block Party Activities

Nature Cat: Total Eclipse of the Sun

Nature Cat: The Eclipse Clip


Freezin’ in the Summer Season; Total Eclipse of the Sun: Dark clouds threaten Nature Cat’s annual Summer Fest, which includes the Summer Fest Sprinkler Frolic, a bike ride and a kickball game; Hal is afraid of the total eclipse of the sun. Length: 30 Minutes

WXXI-TV & WXXI-TV Livestream | Monday, Apr. 8 at 12:30 pm & again at 4:30 pm

Curious George: George’s Dark Day

Curious George sitting under a tree during the eclipse

Curious George: George’s Dark Day; Leaf Raker: George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are excited to view the solar eclipse, but George accidentally leaves their eclipse viewing glasses behind; Bill teaches George the art of leaf-raking. Length: 30 Minutes

WXXI-TV & WXXI-TV Livestream | Monday, Apr. 8 at 01:00 pm

WXXI PBS Kids 24/7 & Live Stream | Monday, Apr. 8 at 11:00 am

NOVA: The Great American Eclipse

Scientists prepare new experiments to study the solar eclipse. Length: 60 Minutes

WXXI World | Sunday, Apr. 7 at 08:00 pm
WXXI-TV & WXXI-TV Livestream | Wednesday, Apr. 10 at 04:00 pm

More Activities:

PBS KIDS Solar Eclipse Digital Kit for PreK-2nd grade (from WXXI Education)

Eclipse Explainer: During the eclipse, the moon passes in front of the sun, until it covers the sun's light. This makes a shadow on the earth, and the eclipse can only be seen in the places where the shadow falls.

Solar Eclipse Games and Activities from NYS Libraries

NASA Solar Eclipse Site

Connect to PBS LearningMedia for Space Resource Collections & Solar Eclipse Resources

Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms

Space Collection: Resources organized by grade levels. (K-2) (3-5) (6-8) & (9-12) Note particularly the Solar Eclipses Lessons & Interactives for 6-8 and 9-12 Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms: Engage K–12 students with phenomena and science practices using this collection of supplementary digital media resources created by GBH in collaboration with NASA. The resources align with key NGSS Earth, space, and physical science disciplinary core ideas. To ensure that science content is accessible for all students, supports are included for students with disabilities or who are English learners; many resources have Spanish translations.

Eclipses: CrashCourse

See the Great American Eclipse Video (From 2017)

AfroPoP, Liberated Lives & Our Climate-Changing World: What to Watch in April • WXXI-WORLD

Premiering this month, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange takes on a new genre of storytelling for the first time in the series’ 16-year history – two narrative films join two documentaries to make up a dynamic season of Black stories, fiction and nonfiction. 

One of those documentaries, Commuted, is a part of our new thematic collection, Liberated Lives – Danielle Metz, who spent 23 years in prison before her triple-life sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama, shares how she and her two children navigated her return home and continue even today to rebuild their relationships. Watch more Liberated Lives films with What These Walls Won’t Hold and Hundreds of Thousands on America ReFramed, plus several stories on Stories from the Stage.

And this Earth Day, we present a Local, USA climate double feature with Freedom Hill, a co-presentation of AfroPoP, and Fire Tender, a presentation of Vision Maker Media – first, a historically-Black community in North Carolina seeks reform as floods continually threaten their homes. Then, Yurok tribe member Margo Robbins advocates for the return of fire practices to ancestral lands in California.

Uniting themes of justice, redemption and forward progress, WORLD mirrors the spring season with films representing hope and renewal.

-From WorldChannel

Features & Films On-Demand
World On-Demand Offerings

Climate and Our Planet PBS LearningMedia Collection

This collection of supplementary digital media resources offers a range of options for engaging middle and high school students with key questions in climate science:

  • How do the interconnected systems of Earth drive its climate?
  • What are people around the world learning about how Earth’s climate is changing?
  • Who are the helpers creating a healthier future for our planet, and how can we join in designing and achieving climate change solutions?

These resources align with NGSS Earth and life science disciplinary core ideas and many offer opportunities for students to exercise STEM practices and place-based civic engagement skills.

In this collection:
Connect to the Collection & Resources

Elinor Wonders Why: Ms. Mole’s Glasses On-Demand

Elinor and her friends set out to return Ms. Mole’s glasses to her after she forgets them at school. Ms. Mole can’t see anything without her glasses! When Ms. Mole forgets her glasses at school, Elinor and her friends follow her to return them. Ms. Mole can’t see anything without her glasses! The kids travel throughout Animal Town, just missing Ms. Mole at every turn. During their travels, the kids realize Ms. Mole has been shopping and getting around using different senses. By the time they finally reach Ms. Mole and return her glasses, she’s got all her shopping done without them. Cool!

Education Resources for Video Story

Then in the second half of the episode, in Elinor Stops the Squish, Elinor and her friends want to bring Ms. Mole a cupcake for her birthday, but they’re worried it will get squished on the way to school. The kids find inspiration in nature when they observe how different animals/creatures stay safe using their shells as a defense mechanism. Elinor, Ari and Olive use this idea as inspiration to make a shell around the cupcake using a hard coconut. Because of the kids’ hard work and ingenuity, the cupcake makes it all the way to school without being squished, just in time for Ms. Mole to enjoy her present. Yum!

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