With students home, Milwaukee, state PBS add daytime educational lineups
Wisconsin’s public television programmers will dedicate specific channels’ daytime lineups to educational programming, as part of an effort to support students’ at-home learning across the state.
PBS Wisconsin and Milwaukee PBS are partnering with the state Department of Public Instruction on the effort, which will include online resources and free digital content to help students, parents and instructors as education shifts to the home front because of the stay-at-home mandate during the coronavirus pandemic.
Starting March 30, PBS Wisconsin will air educational programming weekdays from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on The Wisconsin Channel, or PBS Wisconsin-2. Milwaukee PBS will do so from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on WMTV-TV (Channel 36), which is on Channel 16 on Spectrum.
The effort will include specific blocks of programming for pre-K through 12th-grade levels, and cover subjects including English language arts, social studies, science and math.
Programming ranges from shows like “Peg + Cat” and “Cyberchase” for younger kids, episodes of “NOVA” and “History Detectives” for middleschool-age students, and installments of “American Experience,” “Masterpiece” and other fare for high-schoolers. Check the PBS stations’ websites for listings.
In addition to the TV broadcasts, the programming will be available for streaming online at pbswisconsin.org/
familyresources. Also available online
at both pbswisconsin.org and milwau keepbs.org: corresponding free digital content for at-home learning and support for teachers.