Learning Adventures
Let’s go on an adventure! Alabama Public Television’s free Learning Adventures take students on fun and educational journeys across the state and beyond without ever leaving the classroom.
New Learning Adventures are designed to be live-streamed at specific, scheduled times, and feature interactivity. This collection of past Learning Adventures is archived for viewing at any time. Join Alabama Public Television’s student reporters as they explore historic sites, get creative, research science, recite Shakespeare, tour NASA, and more!
Unstoppable: The Road to Women’s Rights
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Alabama Public Television is producing Unstoppable: The Road to Women’s Rights. This [More]
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Alabama Public Television is producing Unstoppable: The Road to Women’s Rights. This interactive live-streamed educational event will focus on the women’s suffrage movement, the struggle for women’s equality and the role of women in politics today.
Career Pathways: Apprenticeships
Watch Career Pathways: Apprenticeships to learn what apprenticeships are, why they are beneficial for job seekers as well as employers, and how to participate in [More]
Watch Career Pathways: Apprenticeships to learn what apprenticeships are, why they are beneficial for job seekers as well as employers, and how to participate in them.
Artistic Roots: Alabama’s Creative Culture
Artistic Roots: Alabama’s Creative Culture explores the study and creation of music, theatre, sculpture, folk, and visual arts around the state. Students have the opportunity to [More]
Artistic Roots: Alabama’s Creative Culture explores the study and creation of music, theatre, sculpture, folk, and visual arts around the state. Students have the opportunity to learn about folk art from the Cargo Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art, meet Medusa being carved from Sylacauga marble, visit a community playhouse in Montgomery, witness a giant sting ray mural come to life on Dauphin Island, discover what it takes to become a record producer in Birmingham, and experience a studio session at the infamous Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.
Mission Control: Human Spaceflight
Mission Control: Human Spaceflight is an exciting opportunity for students to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United States landing on the moon (July 20, [More]
Mission Control: Human Spaceflight is an exciting opportunity for students to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United States landing on the moon (July 20, 1969) and participate in the excitement and fascination of space and space travel without leaving their desks. This celebration of historical, current and future manned space exploration is designed to encourage students’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Students come face-to-face with the Vietnam War when they meet veterans and visit The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The war is revealed through compelling stories grounded [More]
Students come face-to-face with the Vietnam War when they meet veterans and visit The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The war is revealed through compelling stories grounded in the personal experiences of Alabama veterans and others who were touched by the Vietnam War. Our student reporters conduct interviews and visit the Memorial with a veteran and consider the lasting effects of the war.
Archaeology Adventures: Early Alabama History
Three young kids venture outside their 2-D animated world to learn about early Alabama history for their upcoming school report. Aided by their hyper-intelligent robotic [More]
Three young kids venture outside their 2-D animated world to learn about early Alabama history for their upcoming school report. Aided by their hyper-intelligent robotic friend Roto and a magical portal, they visit some of Alabama’s historic sites to learn about Native American societies, early settlers, and the beginning of Alabama’s statehood.
Inside the Crime Lab
FBI: Inside the Crime Lab offers middle school children a behind-the-scenes look at the greatest crime laboratory in the world—the FBI’s Crime Laboratory. The Learning [More]
FBI: Inside the Crime Lab offers middle school children a behind-the-scenes look at the greatest crime laboratory in the world—the FBI’s Crime Laboratory. The Learning Adventure explores the methods used by professionals at the lab to solve crimes.
Gulf Detectives: Episode 2 – Animals of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
This episode of Gulf Detectives follows three young science detectives as they learn about the animals of the Northern Gulf of Mexico with the help [More]
This episode of Gulf Detectives follows three young science detectives as they learn about the animals of the Northern Gulf of Mexico with the help of the scientists at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The program features a shark research boat trip, a shark dissection, and a visit to Coffee Island to learn about the efforts by The Nature Conservancy to restore the oyster reefs in the area.
Teaching Julius Caesar
Folger Shakespeare Library live-streamed Master Classes provide professional development grounded in deep, precise content knowledge and tested classroom strategies.
Folger Shakespeare Library live-streamed Master Classes provide professional development grounded in deep, precise content knowledge and tested classroom strategies.
Gulf Detectives: Episode 1
Gulf Detectives at Dauphin Island Sea Lab is an exciting opportunity for students to access beaches, coastal wetlands, Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico [More]
Gulf Detectives at Dauphin Island Sea Lab is an exciting opportunity for students to access beaches, coastal wetlands, Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico without leaving their desks.
Exploring Monticello
Exploring Monticello takes students into Thomas Jefferson’s home, a virtual laboratory for all kinds of ideas. Thomas Jefferson is best known for authoring the Declaration [More]
Exploring Monticello takes students into Thomas Jefferson’s home, a virtual laboratory for all kinds of ideas. Thomas Jefferson is best known for authoring the Declaration of Independence and becoming the third President of the United States, but he also had a great love for innovations which made him one of America’s first great scientists.
Teaching Othello
Folger Shakespeare Library live-streamed Master Classes provide professional development grounded in deep, precise content knowledge and tested classroom strategies.
Folger Shakespeare Library live-streamed Master Classes provide professional development grounded in deep, precise content knowledge and tested classroom strategies.
Hamlet Q&A
Join us for an in depth discussion of teaching Hamlet. Featuring a Folger Shakespeare scholar.
Join us for an in depth discussion of teaching Hamlet. Featuring a Folger Shakespeare scholar.
Teaching Hamlet
Folger Shakespeare Library live-streamed Master Classes provide professional development grounded in deep, precise content knowledge and tested classroom strategies.
Folger Shakespeare Library live-streamed Master Classes provide professional development grounded in deep, precise content knowledge and tested classroom strategies.
Experiencing Shakespeare 2: Up on Your Feet
Join us as we explore the vaults of the Folger Shakespeare Library and get your students “up on their feet” to perform a Shakespeare insult [More]
Join us as we explore the vaults of the Folger Shakespeare Library and get your students “up on their feet” to perform a Shakespeare insult war!
Our Nation’s Capitol
Join student reporters as they uncover the history, art and architecture that define America’s living symbol of democracy and freedom.
Join student reporters as they uncover the history, art and architecture that define America’s living symbol of democracy and freedom.
Experiencing Shakespeare
Experiencing Shakespeare makes Shakespeare come alive for students. Through television, the web, and social media, students explore the Folger Shakespeare Library, a leader in teaching [More]
Experiencing Shakespeare makes Shakespeare come alive for students. Through television, the web, and social media, students explore the Folger Shakespeare Library, a leader in teaching Shakespeare, and home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection.
Exploring Mount Vernon
Explore the famous Mount Vernon estate in this electronic field trip to the historic home of our nation’s first president. Learn from Mount Vernon’s interpreters [More]
Explore the famous Mount Vernon estate in this electronic field trip to the historic home of our nation’s first president. Learn from Mount Vernon’s interpreters and curators.
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