Friday, October 27
8-9 p.m. E/P

Travel Channel

Subjects: Science and U.S. Geography

Middle and High School

"America's Haunted Houses"

Through the latest scientific techniques, ghost hunters, parapsychologists, psychics and skeptics uncover the truth behind America's haunted places. Ghosts are said to reside from coast to coast, and each location provides a clue in the investigation. Rated TV-G

Saturday, October 28
10-11 p.m. E/P

Animal Plannet Channel

Subjects: Science

Middle and High School

"The Most Extreme: Living Dead"

This is a documentary, not a movie. It's about the top ten living dead of the animal kingdom. Animals that appear dead, and yet they're still very much alive. It shows marsupials that really do play possum, and a fish out of water that can sleep for four years inside a brick. Rated TV-G

Sunday, October 29
8-10 p.m. E/P

Animal Plannet Channel

Subjects: Science

Elementary, Middle and High School

"Prehistoric Park: T-Rex and Mammoth"

This is a broadcast of the initial two episodes of a new series from Animal Planet that combines science and special effects to create a world where it's possible to travel back in time to try to save dinosaurs and create a sanctuary for the extinct animals. In In the first episode host Nigel Marven travels back to the Cretaceous Montana: his mission - to rescue Tyrannosaurus Rex. He coaxes two baby T-rex through the time portal and into the park. He names them Terence and Matilda. In the second hour he heads back 10,000 years to the ice age, in search of the last remaining woolly mammoths. Nigel returns with a injured female mammoth he later names Martha

Sunday, October 28
10-11 p.m. ET, 7-8 p.m. PT

CNBC

Subjects: Math and Social Science

Middle and High School

"The E-Bay Effect: Inside A Worldwide Obsession"

This is a documentary about the eBay you don't know, with behind-the-scenes access to the world's leading online commerce site. An estimated 1.8 billion items, worth approximately $40 billion, are expected to be traded this year on this global electronic marketplace. If eBay employed the 430,000 people who earn an income selling on its site, it would be the nation's number two private sector employer. How did this company, just shy of its 10th birthday, change the fortunes of so many? Also the program examines why some former users feel betrayed and have deserted the popular auction site, and looks into claims of fraud and outrage over fee increases and other controversies surrounding E-bay.

Monday, October 30
9-10 p.m. E/P

History Channel

Subjects: Science and World History

Middle and High School

"Engineering An Empire: The Aztecs"

In less than 200 years the Aztec's transformed themselves from a band of wandering nomads to the greatest civilization the New World had ever known. What records remain of this amazing accomplishment indicate they did it through brilliant military campaigns and by ingeniously applying technology to master the harsh environment they faced. They built their capital city where no city should have been possible - in the middle of a lake. The Aztec also practiced human sacrifice and made many enemies. By the time the Spaniards landed they had no trouble recruiting tribal allies to destroy the Aztecs. This documentary examines the architecture and infrastructure behind the New World's greatest, and last, indigenous society. Rating: TVPG

Monday, October 30
0-10 p.m. E/P

PBS

Subjects: Science and American History

Middle and High School

"American Experience: The Great Fever"

In June 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than 200 years, the disease had terrorized the United States, killing an estimated 100,000 people in the 19th century alone. Shortly after Reed and his team arrived in Havana, they began testing the radical theories of Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor who believed that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. This program documents the efforts of Reed's medical team, some of whom put their own lives on the line to verify Finlay's theory. When yellow fever struck New Orleans in 1905, an aggressive mosquito eradication campaign successfully ended the epidemic. It was the last yellow fever outbreak in the United States and the first major public health triumph of the 20th century. TV-PG

Log on www.pbs.org/americanexperience

Tuesday, October 31
8-9 p.m. E/P

National Geographic Channel

Subjects: Science

Middle and High School

"Is it Real? Ghosts"

Airing on Halloween evening, this documentary is about ghosts. Countless people claim to have seen ghosts but have they genuinely glimpsed the supernatural, or are they just merely suffering from over-active imaginations? Scientists and paranormal detectives investigate the haunting world of phantom images, disembodied voices, and things that go bump in the night. Rated TV-PG

Tuesday, October 31
8-9 p.m. E/P

PBS

Subjects: Science

High School

"NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way"

Astronomers are closing in on the proof they've sought for years that one of the most destructive objects in the universe - a supermassive black hole - is lurking right in the center of our own galaxy. In this documentary the details of supermassive black holes are revealed through computer-generated imagery, including a simulation of what it might look like to fall into such a thing. What is it doing there, and could it erupt and destroy us? The birth of a black hole begins when a star collapses, shock waves rush outward and the star explodes, going supernova. What is left in its wake is an object so dense that light cannot escape, a severe warp in the four-dimensional space-time fabric. For a long time, black holes were dismissed as science fiction. Even Albert Einstein could not bring himself to accept them, despite pioneering the theory of relativity that predicted their existence. It turns out that black holes aren't the rare, exotic beasts they were once believed to be; now we know that millions of them litter the universe. And while black holes are usually portrayed in the movies as vacuuming vortexes, they don't just suck - they can be violently explosive.

Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova

Wednesday, November 1
6-7 p.m. E/P

Discovery Times Channel

Subjects: World History and Archaeology

Middle and High School

"Ancient Evidence: Joshua & the Walls of Jericho"

This documentary traces the career of the Biblical hero Joshua, from his birth as a slave in Egypt to his famous military victory in the battle of Jericho. It examines the site where the walls of the city are said to have collapsed.

Thursday, November 2
9-10:30 p.m. E/P

HBO

Subjects: American History and Technology

Middle and High School

"Hacking Democracy"

This documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers ??? which are used to count approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections - suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our democracy isn't safe either. From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing. In 2002, Seattle grandmother and writer Bev Harris asked officials in her county why they had acquired electronic touch screen systems for their elections. She stumbled across an "online library" of the Diebold Corporation - which counted more than 40 percent of the presidential votes nationwide in 2000 ??? discovering information about the inner-workings of the company's voting system. Her subsequent investigation took her from the trash cans of Texas to the secretary of state of California and finally to Florida, where a "mini-election" to test the vulnerability of the memory cards used in electronic voting produced alarming results. Harris drew on the expertise of other computer - science experts, politicians and activists. Ultimately, he research proved that the top-secret computerized systems counting the votes in America's public elections are not only fallible, but also vulnerable to undetectable hacking, from local school board contests to the presidential race. The electronic voting machines of three companies - Diebold, ESS and Sequoia - collectively responsible for around 80 percent of America's votes today.

Friday, November 3
9-11 p.m. E/P

Discovery Times Channel

Subjects: World History and Archaeology

Middle and High School

"The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China"

One of the most powerful men who ever lived, Qin Shi Huangdi commanded millions, united China and designed the Great Wall. The enormous scale of this leader's achievements was matched only by the legacy he left. Rated TV-PG, V

Saturday, November 4
9-11 p.m. E/P

Discovery Times Channel

Subjects: Geography

Middle and High School

"Discovery Atlas: China Revealed"

Coupling insightful storytelling with spectacular and ground breaking photographic techniques, "Discovery Atlas: China Revealed" brings alive the fascinating and complex contemporary life of one of the greatest nations on earth.