LEARN/CREATE (PT)

Pacific Time View Mountain	Saturday October 22, 2011	Current View Prime Time View Full Day
NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

7:00 am

Smart Travels - Pacific Rim With Rudy Maxa "Vancouver & Victoria, British Columbia" Rudy explores the mix of cultures in Vancouver that inspires world-class cuisine, spirited night life and Asian shopping centers. He boards a ferry to Victoria to visit the bastion of British Heritage for afternoon tea.G

7:30 am

Travelscope "New Brunswick's Acadian Festival" New Brunswick is Canada's only bi-lingual province and the peaceful co-existence between the French Acadian culture and the English Loyalist culture gives visitors two experiences for the price of one. Yet all the world's French in August during the Caraquet Acadian Festival -- a two-week cultural celebration that culminates in a mardi-gras style street party. Joseph heads to the Acadian Peninsula to trace its Acadian heritage, meet modern day Acadians and, during their national day of celebration, join in their festival and Laissez les bon temps roulez -- Let the good times roll! During his journey he also partakes of New Brunswick's natural beauty and the world of adventure that awaits every visitor to this Canadian province year round. D

8:00 am

Endless Feast "Edmonton, Alberta, Canada" The organic farm of Chinese immigrants Eric and Ruby Chen showcases the beauty, bounty and diversity of Edmonton. Along with other local family farmers like Spring Creek Ranch and Sylvan Star Cheese Farm, the Chens provide mouth-watering cuisine for chef Blair Lebsack's creative summer feast. D

8:30 am

Equitrekking "Alberta" Equitrekking host Darley Newman travels to Alberta, Canada to experience Western adventure and stunning natural scenery. In Kananaskis, Darley treks amid the beautiful snow-capped Canadian Rockies with a longtime Alberta cowboy, conquering high altitudes and an August hailstorm. Next, Darley experiences the fast-paced Calgary Stampede with its equestrian competitions, Western art, rodeos and surprisingly diverse food offerings. D

9:00 am

Travelscope "Newfoundland - Winter/Summer" Joseph travels to Canada's eastern-most province in winter and summer in search of cultural, scenic and wildlife adventures.G

9:30 am

The Seasoned Traveler "Quebec: C'est Magnifique" Host George Bauer explores Montreal, heads to the top of Mount Royal, visits Quebec City and examines nature's wonders in Canada's largest province.G

10:00 am

Travelscope "Ottawa, Canada" Travelscope celebrates Canada and the Canadians in the nation's capital. Joseph canoes beneath Parliament Hill, survives the War Museum and samples the cuisine at Cordon Bleu - the world's most prestigious culinary training ground. D

10:30 am

The Seasoned Traveler "The Canadian" Rail Canada offers the grandest train ride in Canada from Toronto to Vancouver. The train passes through lakelands, crosses plains, visits Jasper and arrives on the coast.G

11:00 am

Social Studies In Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5 "Workshop 4. Applying Themes and Disciplines" What do we teach? Working from the NCSS themes and standards, the onscreen teachers identify approaches to integrating disciplines while teaching social studies content. Classroom video segments illustrate effective strategies for teaching across the curriculum and provide an opportunity to reflect on teaching practices. The session ends with the teachers developing a lesson plan that incorporates a variety of themes and disciplines. D

12:00 pm

Economics Classroom, The: A Workshop for Grade 9-12 Teachers "Trading Globally" Explore the global economy. D

1:00 pm

Private Universe Project In Mathematics "Building On Useful Ideas" One of the strands of the Rutgers long-term study was to find out how useful ideas spread through a community of learners and evolve over time. Here, the focus is in on the teacher’s role in fostering thoughtful mathematics. D

2:00 pm

In Search of the Novel "Am I Getting Through?" In this summary, teachers examine their effectiveness in helping students comprehend and appreciate novels and become lifelong readers. Teachers also discuss and demonstrate strategies for evaluation. D

3:00 pm

Invitation to World Literature "Odyssey" Odysseus must travel the known and unknown world before he can return home to his beloved island kingdom of Ithaca. What does this ancient story say to readers today? In this program, Odysseus's story is given ancient and modern historical and philosophical context, and illustrated with centuries of art. Featured are theater director Mary Zimmerman, actor-director Tim Blake-Nelson, and psychologist/author Jonathan Shay. D

3:30 pm

Invitation to World Literature "The Bacchae" The city of Thebes is torn apart by the conflicting demands of reason and religion, as the disguised god Dionysus returns to his home town demanding to be worshipped. Opposing him is the young king Pentheus, who is doomed to suffer the ultimate punishment for his disbelief. Featured speakers include world-renowned playwright/author Wole Soyinka, actor Alan Cummings, and Daniel Mendelsohn of Bard College. D

4:00 pm

Ethics In America "Public Trust, Private Interests" Jeane Kirkpatrick, Joseph A. Califano Jr., Senator Alan Simpson, Peter Jennings, and others address the problems of trust; within government, between one public official and another, and between the government and the public.G

5:00 pm

Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie "Montreal: Cooking on the Wild Side" In and around Montreal, the great outdoors plays a major role in inspiring the unique local flavor. Just 40 minutes outside the city, the beautiful collaboration between a chef and a forager results in an elegant restaurant menu featuring mushrooms found in trees and wild greens picked from riverbeds. Meet a fourth-generation apple farmer who mixes the Old World and the New by producing cider using the methode champenoise. D

5:30 pm

Travelscope "Ontario, Canada's Far North" In this relative desolation, the MoCreeBec and Moose Cree struggle to keep their cultures alive.G

6:00 pm

The Seasoned Traveler "Toronto" George Bauer visits one of the largest, safest and most dynamic cities in North America. He searches out what makes Toronto so memorable and so important to Canada.G

6:30 pm

Travelscope "New Brunswick, Canada" Joseph experiences winter in Canada's only official bilingual province, where the English and Acadian French thrive together.G

7:00 pm

7:30 pm

8:00 pm

8:30 pm

9:00 pm

Travelscope "Newfoundland - Winter/Summer" Joseph travels to Canada's eastern-most province in winter and summer in search of cultural, scenic and wildlife adventures.G

9:30 pm

10:00 pm

10:30 pm

11:00 pm

Social Studies In Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12 "Standards Overview, 6-8" Lessons from grade 6–8 classrooms illustrate how the NCSS standards and themes can be integrated into the middle school curriculum. Middle school teachers explore a number of expectations and outcomes in their lessons and build on the fundamentals established in the elementary grades. Themes of civics, political science, and history begin to take on more meaning as the content in these lessons connects to students. D

<<Previous Month

Next Month >>

Pacific Time View Mountain	Saturday October 22, 2011	Current View Prime Time View Full Day
NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.