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Virtual Field Trip: Explore the Outdoors with Nature Cat

Nature Cat, Squeeks, Daisy and Hal explore national wonders such as The Grand Canyon, Old Faithful, The Great Salt Lake and Niagara Falls.

Doing Distance Learning in Style - Virtual Backgrounds from PBS KIDS

Download one of these special backgrounds from your favorite PBS KIDS shows to help fight those "virtual blues".

A Youthful Take on the News

When schools abruptly closed due to COVID-19, PBS NewsHour’s Student Report Labs quickly adjusted its curriculum.
PBS LearningMedia offers free classroom resources to teachers and students grades K-12.

Transforming Digital Lessons with On-Demand Resources

Educator and former PBS Digital Innovator Kevin Cornell takes us on a spin through PBS LearningMedia.
Apollo 8 Earthrise Photo

PBS LearningMedia Interactive Lesson Collection

Each lesson presents content from a public media production and features several engagement and assessment activities.
Jean-Luc Slakmon returning to the scene at the HyperCacher Shooting, Paris

Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations

TUESDAY at 9
Katya Demidkova in front of the Sharminub monastery, near Kathmandu, in Nepal. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she is teaching English to the boys who live there, studying to become monks.

Stuck in Nepal: Weathering the COVID-19 pandemic in a Buddhist monastery

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Facts about "murder hornets"; how Ramadan is different in 2020; and words of hope from a Tucsonan facing coronavirus on the front line.
Gyms and pools have been given the go ahead to open their doors, but not all are rushing to do so.

Some gyms taking slow approach to reopening in Arizona

Not every gym or pool in the state is rushing to get back to business after closing due to COVID-19.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

Arizona coronavirus news in brief, May 13

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona: Pima County employees, Grand Canyon reopening, no electronic signature gathering.
A view from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, next to the Kolb Studio, September 2018.

Grand Canyon National Park will start to reopen Friday

The National Parks Service said it is following guidance from federal and local health authorities.
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry at his desk in 2019.

Work from home ending for many county employees

Two supervisors say the plan runs counter to the governor's proposal.
Color guard outside the U.S. Capitol.

National Memorial Day Concert (2020)

LIVE SUNDAY at 5; encore at 8
File image of an empty classroom at Sabino High School in Tucson.

Arizona Supreme Court says no to electronic signature gathering for citizen petitions

The state’s highest court will not let citizen initiatives access the online system used by candidates.
An A-10 Thunderbolt II flying for a mission in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, May 2017.

Davis-Monthan and local Air National Guard to do flyover Thursday

The military members want to thank medical staffers and first responders.
An open sign hangs in the window of a business in Patagonia.

Arizona restaurants face choice of whether, and how, to invite diners inside

Restaurants are deciding whether to risk further spreading the deadly coronavirus or face the financial consequences of keeping doors closed.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey gives an update on the state's COVID-19 response May 12, 2020 in this still image from his media address.

Ducey: Arizona stay-at-home order expires Friday

The governor and the state's health director touted the state's pandemic response while outlining further steps to reopen.

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