Museum, UAMS join lessons push

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ School Telemedicine have joined ongoing efforts by Arkansas PBS public television network and state education leaders to provide lessons to homebound Arkansas students.

Crystal Bridges has provided a collection of short videos about artists who have been featured at the Bentonville museum. Each video is about 2 minutes and focuses on the artist’s collection.

The UAMS STAR program is providing physical education breaks.

The public television network, and the Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education have been providing educational programming on the network and support materials during much of the time the state’s public school buildings have been closed to in-person instruction. That’s the result of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Arkansas Alternative Methods of Instruction programming features five Arkansas Teachers of the Year hosting program segments. The daily schedule blocks are:

■ 8-9:30 a.m.: prekindergarten through grade two.

■ 9:30-11 a.m.: Grades three through five.

■ 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Grades six through eight.

The current “Arkansas AMI” broadcast model will continue through May 22.

Viewers can watch “Arkansas AMI” on the following platforms:

■ Daily broadcast on ARPBS-1 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. through May 22. Additional information, including content by grade and related resources, is available at myarkansaspbs. org/arkansasami.

■ Livestream at myarkansaspbs.org/arkansasami.

■ On demand by 10 a.m. each day, and archived, at myarkansaspbs.org/arkansasami. These videos will remain available for the entirety of school closures stemming from the coronavirus, and longer as online rights allow.

■ On the free Engage Arkansas PBS app for iPhone and Android.

■ On the PBS Video app on mobile and streaming devices (Apple TV, Roku, etc.).

■ On the Arkansas PBS channel for YouTube TV subscribers.