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NOVA scienceNOW Teacher’s Guides
NOVA scienceNOW is an innovative science television show that encompasses a website and an educational outreach effort. Each hour-long episode of NOVA scienceNOW, hosted by astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, features four timely science and technology stories, including a profile of a scientist in the field. A companion website features a Teacher’s Guide to each program segment, as well as transcripts and a variety of other educator resources. Each guide contains a program overview, viewing ideas, and, frequently, a classroom activity, all produced by a team of curriculum writers and advisers. Guides are searchable by subject (such as life science, chemistry, and earth science), by title, and by date. For example, the Teacher's Guide to a segment on the 1918 flu pandemic suggests that, before viewing, teachers ask students to examine how viruses and transmitted, discuss immunizations, and describe the cyclical nature of flu outbreaks. After viewing, students can research past epidemics, explore different public health strategies, and debate the ethics of quarantining potentially infectious people. The classroom activity asks students to perform a sequence of six short simulations to model how an infectious disease can spread through a human population. Educators may tape NOVA scienceNOW broadcasts off the air and use them in the classroom for one year or watch them online. Educators can also register for weekly email bulletins to learn what’s coming up on NOVA, both on television and on the Web. HHMI has a companion website with resources that extend the topics presented on the television series.
An Example of a Teacher's Guide
Educators can use the ideas and classroom activities in the online Teacher's Guides to the NOVA scienceNOW shows to enhance and extend the series' science content.
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Award Years: 2005, 2007, 2008
Summary: WGBH is a public service media organization based in Boston. It is the single largest producer of PBS prime-time and online programming, and a major source of programs heard on public radio from coast to coast. It is also a pioneer in educational multimedia and in media access technologies for people with hearing or vision loss. WGBH is committed to making science accessible to the general public, introducing important science concepts on air, online, and in the community, and shining a light on how scientists work. To attract young people to science and engineering, it creates curriculum-based, age-appropriate programs and services that spark an early and continuing curiosity about science.