Greetings from The Paley Center for Media’s Education Department!
Welcome to the latest installment of “What We’re Watching,” a weekly Paley Education@Home guide. During this unprecedented time, we are continuing to reach out to our community with some tips and ideas for consuming media with kids! We know that screen time has increased and so we’re here to help.

Consuming media with your kids is a perfect jumping-off point to making media literacy a part of your everyday lives. Familiarizing yourself with the basics is a great first step. In case you missed it, you can view our first edition about media literacy best practices. We also recommend the National Association for Media Literacy Education’s Parents Guide—it’s a terrific introduction!
Weekly Zoom Meet-ups
Fridays, 1:00 to 1:30 pm ET
Resuming July 10
Students Grades 3+ can join us for a weekly Zoom Meet-up, Fridays from 1:00 to 1:30 pm ET starting July 10, to chat about the week’s theme and engage in some hands-on learning led by a Paley Educator. Parents and teachers are welcome to join as well!

For connection details, please RSVP to eduny@paleycenter.org.
What We're Watching: Summer Vacation
This week it’s all about everyone’s favorite time of year, summer. After so much screen time this spring we hope you can get outside this weekend and spend time finding shapes in the clouds. But if it rains, we've got you covered for things to watch at home.
This Week's Recommendation for Kids of All Ages:
Crooklyn
Grades 8+
Available to rent
This film takes place in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, during the summer of 1973, and focuses on a young girl Troy and her family. This 1994 film was cowritten, produced, and directed by Spike Lee.

The Simpsons: “Bart of Darkness” (S6, E1)
Grades 6+
Available to stream on Disney+
In this Hitchcock inspired episode, Bart and Lisa use not-so-idle threats to convince Homer to buy a swimming pool, and Bart suspects Flanders has killed his wife when he spies on him through the rear window.

Summer Camp Island: “The First Day”
Grades 4+
Available to stream on HBO Max
Best friends Oscar and Hedgehog get dropped off at their first day of summer camp.
Phineas and Ferb: "Summer Belongs to You" (S2, E31)
Grades 2+
Available to stream on Disney+
It's the summer solstice, so Phineas, Ferb, and their friends decide to travel around the world in one day in an effort to create the "Biggest, Longest, Funnest summer day of all time."

Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock
Grades 1+
Available to stream on Youtube
This iconic series of animated musical educational shorts aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC network from 1973–84. “I’m Just a Bill,” “The Preamble,” “Suffering Till Suffrage,” and “Fireworks” are always fun to rewatch.

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
Grades 2+
Available to stream on Hulu
This 1993 animated comedy movie with the Tiny Toon cast follows them on their summer vacation from school. Fun Fact! Donald Glover used this film as inspiration for shaping the arc of the second season of his show Atlanta.
Young Game Designers: New for You!
We are thrilled to offer our online student community two exciting opportunities to learn game design through our partnership with the Urban Arts Partnership’s School of Interactive Arts (SIA).

SIA: Summer Coding Camp: Apply now for a six-week (July 13 to August 2, 2020) virtual coding camp where you will learn the foundations of game design and be introduced to C# programming language on the Unity game engine.

The Ghost School: Interactive Video Game That Teaches Computer Thinking: Create your avatar then make your way through the levels of the haunted schools as you learn programming logic and syntax, computational thinking, and more.
Paley Online Classes
Explore these rich, full online classes, with complete thematic descriptions, clips from the Paley Archive, pre- and post-viewing questions, associated vocabulary, further online resources, and more.

As always, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at eduny@paleycenter.org.

Happy viewing,
Rebekah Fisk, Director of Education
Caroline Quigley, Senior Manager of School & Family Programs

Photos— The Simpsons : Fox; Crooklyn : 40 Acres and a Mule/Universal; Phineas and Ferb : Disney; Schoolhouse Rock : ABC
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