A "Milestones" portrait traces an African immigrant's struggles as she learns to read and raises a family in America; Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a young parent find ways to childproof her home; on "Lifelines", an African-American woman shows how she researches her family roots over the Internet and in the field; and for "Book Club," hip-hop star Doug E. Fresh teaches parents and children how to rap and rhyme while they read.

Question Man (Joey Kola) tackles sentence fragments in a grammatically correct dream; on "Write Now," poet Jimmy Baca conducts a dynamic writing workshop with steelworkers; Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a co-worker create an outline for a GED essay on disciplining children; "Straight to the Source" takes us behind the scenes at the popular Bernie Mac show for a peek at a professional brainstorming session.

"Math Behind the Arts" asks a professional drummer and dancers from the Broadway hit, Forty-Second Street, to demonstrate fractions in action; on a TV411 special, a female carpenter shows how math and measurement are critical to her work; "Sports Smarts" taps the expertise of Mets pitcher Al Leiter on the perimeter of a baseball diamond; Laverne (Liz Torres) explains the concept of percentages and multiple mark-downs to bargain-hunting patrons of the Big Store.

This lesson was made to be used for 9th grade "Sports and Outdoor Product Design 1" students.  It can easily be adapted to fit other grades as well.  It will teach students about fiber, yarn, fabric -- including knit, non-woven, and woven (plain, twill, and satin weaves).  Students will complete a Digital Scavenger Hunt by taking pictures, and finding open licensure pictures online (giving proper credit for the pictures).

This is a lesson plan/learning activity for Child Development. In this activity, students will use what they have learned about toddlers to create a digital marketing product, such as a poster, to present to the "board of directors" and a "company" that is developing a new department for the creation of toys and activities. The student's final product will show how three activities help toddlers physically, social/emotionally, and cognitively.Utah Core Standard:Child Development, Strand 5, Standard 1: Describe the growth and development of the toddler. Performance Skill: Evaluate three age-appropriate activities for toddlers and explain how each activity stimulates the toddler's development (physical, social/emotional, cognitive).Thumbnail Picture: AnnaFayett-Holmes; Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Students will learn about the qualities and factors that help create a strong and stable family life.

Grain products are staple foods and sources of simple and complex carbohydrates that provide energy for the body.

In a world of increasing debt, poverty and hunger, students need skills to provide for their own needs. One skill is the ability to create delicious and nutritious meals while on a budget.

The relationship between how an individual looks and feels and the nutrients he or she eats.

Students will understand and identify personal values and how values impact interpersonal relationships and financial decisions.

This lesson will help students understand how woven fabrics are created and the differences between the plain weave, the twill weave, and the satin weave.

Lesson will cover first impressions we make to others about the clothing we wear. It will also cover the 5 reasons why we wear clothing: protection, adornment, identification, modesty, and status.

In “Disappearing Hot Dogs,” Yana thinks picking up her fork makes hot dogs magically disappear.Families are encouraged to play along as she,Egbert, and Izzie discover the surprising (four legged)cause of the disappearing hotdogs—and the difference between confounded evidence and isolating variables.

“Mystery Box” teaches children about experiments. Yana and Egbert explore the distinction between“just guessing” and “hypotheses.” They abandon wild guesses about what is inside a mysterious box when Izzie the Ostrich points out a potential experiment. Can they find out what’s really inside?

"Picnic Panic" helps kids understand the difference between rare and common causes. Egbert Finds his picnic ruined. Who did it? They find some hairs at the crime scene and get side-tracked by half remembered stories and scary worries until the learn to focus on common causes rather than rare ones and realize that "things that happen most of the time, cause most of the things that happen."

"Sneezing Aardvarks” begins with two bands of aardvarks fighting over whether white pepper or black pepper is sneezier. Yana and Egbert create a contest to see who is right. Children can see intuitively how randomly distributed differences between groups don’t affect our ability to decide whether systematic differences between groups affect outcomes.

In “Suspicious Gumballs” a string of gum balls all the same color mysteriously fall out of a gum ball machine, and Yana and Egbert discover who’s responsible. This episode encourages families to explore the relationship between samples and populations, and random versus selective sampling processes.