Remake Learning Days provides opportunities for children and families to explore and learn together. Your local Pennsylvania PBS stations are hosting and collaborating on events focused on the themes of Arts, Maker, Outdoor Learning, Science, Technology, and Youth Voice.
Several of the events also have a career component and provide opportunities for students to obtain artifacts for their career portfolios. Learn more about the Career Ready PA’s Backpack Challenge.
Here are some of the events offered by the Pennsylvania PBS stations:
WPSU
Virtual Field Trip: Join an educator from Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center on May 10 to explore the sights and sounds of nature and learn how to become an expert observer of your own backyard. Combine that with an in-person tour of the environmental center and aviary for a guided walk and activities on May 21.
WQED
Writers Contest celebration: Join WQED on May 14 at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books for an awards celebration for the WQED Education Writers Contest. The event includes a puppet show, prizes, and hands-on activities such as button making and making puppets.
WQED Steeltown Digital Media Create Night. A hands-on media playground for middle and high school students. Parents and educators are welcome to join in on the fun.
WQED Steeltown Virtual Movie Scavenger Hunt. Come play movie-themed adventure games and learn about our Youth Media program. Join us in a virtual scavenger hunt inside some of our favorite films. Open to middle and high school students. Parents and educators are welcome to join in on the fun.
WQLN
Join WQLN for Q-Kids Readers for Home, a program for Pre-K through 5th grade that encourages active learning at home through reading, viewing educational programming, or doing an activity together.
On-demand virtual events:
Family Night: Coding
This hour-long special will encourage children from kindergarten to fifth grade, and their families to get excited about computer science together. Computer science is an exciting and growing field that impacts the world in countless ways. A large part of computer science is computer coding. If you do not know much about computer coding, you will not want to miss this special.
Family Night: Engineering
This program introduces children from kindergarten to fifth grade to cool careers within the field of engineering that range from building roller coasters to designing artificial heart pumps for children who need them. Children will also get a chance to participate in hands-on engineering activities during the program.
Family Night: Space
In this program children will meet people who are involved in space travel without traveling to space. Think of the people who design spacesuits to keep the astronauts comfortable and safe or even the people who try to figure out how to deal with smelly things while in space! Children will also get a chance to put their aerospace skills to work in fun, hands-on activities.
Family Night: Weather and Climate
Kindergartners through fifth-graders and their families will learn about weather and climate. Children will learn from people who have exciting careers related to weather and climate, including a meteorologist who works with Space Force and a weather forecaster from Weather World. Plus, kids will get a chance to put their new knowledge to work in fun, hands-on activities during the program.
