LEARN/CREATE (MT)

12:30 am 

Social Studies In Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12  "Exploring Geography Through African History"  Lisa Farrow is a seventh–grade world cultures teacher at Shiloh Middle School in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Farrow's lesson provides her students with an understanding of African history and geography. After creating a personal timeline, the students create a historical timeline of Africa, focusing on the Bantu migrations, the rise of Islam, the West African trading empires, the Turkish empire, the slave trade, and European colonialism. D

1:00 am 

Whole Child, The: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years  "Creativity and Play"  The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression. D

1:30 am 

Whole Child, The: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years  "Let's Talk About It"  The process of language acquisition and methods for increasing language competence. D

2:00 am 

Bridge Between Silence and Sound   One-hour documentary narrated by Mario Cuomo that focuses on hearing loss and the Cochlear Implant, a cutting-edge, but controversial technology that gives the deaf and hard of hearing the ability to hear sounds. D

3:00 am 

Primary Sources: Workshops In American History  "Cans, Coal and Corporations: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition"  Intrastate transportation and industrial technology exploded in the second half of the nineteenth century, creating a new vision of America. Join the onscreen participants as they draw on essays written to celebrate the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago to explore this new perspective, both cosmopolitan and expansionist, and its implications for the future.G

4:00 am 

Looking at Learning....Again Part 1  "The Mind's Intelligences"  This workshop considers Howard Gardner. D

5:00 am 

In Search of Shakespeare  "The Duty of Poets"  Shakespeare rises to fame. Plunged into mid-life crisis by the death of his son, he falls in love with a teenage nobleman, has an affair with a mysterious married woman and is charged with assault. The Globe Theatre is caught up in the rebellion against the Queen. Part 3 of 4G

6:00 am 

Chef John Besh's New Orleans   NULL

6:30 am 

Nick Stellino Cooking with Friends  "Salmon Dishes"  NULL

7:00 am 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Belfast and the Best of Northern Ireland"  Rick tours Belfast and the Antrim Coast. He seeks thrills at Portrush, Ulster's Coney Island, taste-tests Irish whiskey, scrambles over six-sided rock columns and follows the beat of Irish music.G

7:30 am 

Wild Photo Adventures  "Spring Wildflowers"  NULL

8:00 am 

P. Allen Smith's Garden Home  "Structure"  Allen shows different constructed features at the Garden Home Retreat. He visits the greenhouse at Churchill Downs, a raised vegetable bed in Alabama, and a butterfly conservatory in New Jersey.G

8:30 am 

Ask This Old House  "Pruning an Overgrown Hedge; Installing a Kitchen Tile Backsplash"  Landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner prune an overgrown evergreen hedge. Then Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva ask "what is it?" Afterward, Tom helps a homeowner install a tile backsplash in his kitchen. D

9:00 am 

For Your Home  "Grand Entrances"  Grand style greets visitors as Vicki and Sloan furnish the foyer and living room in pink, brown and cream tones. Decorative glass sconces and deep, plush rugs create an elegant and inviting ambiance for the more formal areas of the Dream Home. D

9:30 am 

Katie Brown Workshop  "Potluck"  Get inspired to throw a pot-luck dinner with the Katie Brown Workshop as they dress-up a table with take-away bouquets and a chic runner and serve a delicious mango salad, herb feta puffs and cucumber salad. D

10:00 am 

Knit & Crochet Today  "Stitching for Charity"  Put your needles and hooks to work stitching up projects for charity with our quick knit and crochet baby blanket projects. Robyn Chachula whips up an adorable crochet blanket and Maggie Pace shares an easy knit blankie that are sure to inspire you to stitch up a little love for a good cause. Our special guest Debbie Macomber, New York Times best selling author of the "Blossom Street" series, shares her insights on writing, knitting and her love of charitable causes. D

10:30 am 

Gary Spetz's Painting Wild Places! with Watercolors  "Maroon Bells, Part 1"  The distinctive peaks of Colorado's Maroon Bells Wilderness with an aspen tree foreground. In a step-by-step demonstration, Gary takes the viewer half way through the watercolor painting process: from a drawing on watercolor paper through the creation of the painting's base foundation of colors and values. D

11:00 am 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Simply Italian"  NULL

11:30 am 

Lidia's Italy  "Pasta By Any Name"  NULL

12:00 pm 

Social Studies In Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12  "Explorations In Archeology and History"  Gwen Larsen teaches sixth–grade social studies at Harbor School in Boston, Massachusetts. In her introductory lesson, Ms. Larsen guides students through an exploration of their family histories, leading to their place in the larger human family and the development of civilizations. Ms. Larsen. D

12:30 pm 

Social Studies In Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12  "Exploring Geography Through African History"  Lisa Farrow is a seventh–grade world cultures teacher at Shiloh Middle School in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Farrow's lesson provides her students with an understanding of African history and geography. After creating a personal timeline, the students create a historical timeline of Africa, focusing on the Bantu migrations, the rise of Islam, the West African trading empires, the Turkish empire, the slave trade, and European colonialism. D

1:00 pm 

Whole Child, The: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years  "Creativity and Play"  The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression. D

1:30 pm 

Whole Child, The: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years  "Let's Talk About It"  The process of language acquisition and methods for increasing language competence. D

2:00 pm 

Bridge Between Silence and Sound   One-hour documentary narrated by Mario Cuomo that focuses on hearing loss and the Cochlear Implant, a cutting-edge, but controversial technology that gives the deaf and hard of hearing the ability to hear sounds. D

3:00 pm 

Primary Sources: Workshops In American History  "Cans, Coal and Corporations: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition"  Intrastate transportation and industrial technology exploded in the second half of the nineteenth century, creating a new vision of America. Join the onscreen participants as they draw on essays written to celebrate the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago to explore this new perspective, both cosmopolitan and expansionist, and its implications for the future.G

4:00 pm 

Looking at Learning....Again Part 1  "The Mind's Intelligences"  This workshop considers Howard Gardner. D

5:00 pm 

In Search of Shakespeare  "The Duty of Poets"  Shakespeare rises to fame. Plunged into mid-life crisis by the death of his son, he falls in love with a teenage nobleman, has an affair with a mysterious married woman and is charged with assault. The Globe Theatre is caught up in the rebellion against the Queen. Part 3 of 4G

6:00 pm 

Chef John Besh's New Orleans   NULL

6:30 pm 

Nick Stellino Cooking with Friends  "Salmon Dishes"  NULL

7:00 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Belfast and the Best of Northern Ireland"  Rick tours Belfast and the Antrim Coast. He seeks thrills at Portrush, Ulster's Coney Island, taste-tests Irish whiskey, scrambles over six-sided rock columns and follows the beat of Irish music.G

7:30 pm 

Wild Photo Adventures  "Spring Wildflowers"  NULL

8:00 pm 

P. Allen Smith's Garden Home  "Structure"  Allen shows different constructed features at the Garden Home Retreat. He visits the greenhouse at Churchill Downs, a raised vegetable bed in Alabama, and a butterfly conservatory in New Jersey.G

8:30 pm 

Ask This Old House  "Pruning an Overgrown Hedge; Installing a Kitchen Tile Backsplash"  Landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner prune an overgrown evergreen hedge. Then Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva ask "what is it?" Afterward, Tom helps a homeowner install a tile backsplash in his kitchen. D

9:00 pm 

For Your Home  "Grand Entrances"  Grand style greets visitors as Vicki and Sloan furnish the foyer and living room in pink, brown and cream tones. Decorative glass sconces and deep, plush rugs create an elegant and inviting ambiance for the more formal areas of the Dream Home. D

9:30 pm 

Katie Brown Workshop  "Potluck"  Get inspired to throw a pot-luck dinner with the Katie Brown Workshop as they dress-up a table with take-away bouquets and a chic runner and serve a delicious mango salad, herb feta puffs and cucumber salad. D

10:00 pm 

Knit & Crochet Today  "Stitching for Charity"  Put your needles and hooks to work stitching up projects for charity with our quick knit and crochet baby blanket projects. Robyn Chachula whips up an adorable crochet blanket and Maggie Pace shares an easy knit blankie that are sure to inspire you to stitch up a little love for a good cause. Our special guest Debbie Macomber, New York Times best selling author of the "Blossom Street" series, shares her insights on writing, knitting and her love of charitable causes. D

10:30 pm 

Gary Spetz's Painting Wild Places! with Watercolors  "Maroon Bells, Part 1"  The distinctive peaks of Colorado's Maroon Bells Wilderness with an aspen tree foreground. In a step-by-step demonstration, Gary takes the viewer half way through the watercolor painting process: from a drawing on watercolor paper through the creation of the painting's base foundation of colors and values. D

11:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Simply Italian"  NULL

11:30 pm 

Lidia's Italy  "Pasta By Any Name"  NULL