ADVISORY/NOVA's Teachers Materials Now Available Exclusively On NOVA Web Site.Entertainment Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) Latest Lesson Plans and Interactive Features from the Award-Winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, Series Now Offered in Online Teacher's Guide
WHO: NOVA, the top rated PBS science series celebrating its
thirtieth anniversary.
WHAT: Announced that NOVA's educational materials are now
available exclusively on its award-winning Web site.
WHERE: www.pbs.org/nova/teachers
WHY: All educators will now have easy access to hundreds of lesson
plans, interactives for students, and up-to-date TV schedule
and program information.
Educators can find program information, classroom activities, and related resources for more than 200 NOVA programs, including: -- Classroom activities spanning subject areas such as anthropology/archeology, chemistry, earth science, forensics See computer forensics. , health science, life science, mathematics, physics, and technology/engineering. -- One-page digests for each NOVA Web site that provides summaries of Web features with grade-level designations. -- Interactives that provide ways for students to learn key concepts through online challenges, step-through animations, and explanatory ex·plan·a·to·ry adj. Serving or intended to explain: an explanatory paragraph. ex·plan simulations. -- Resources for all sites are available by searching by program title or by subject area and interests. Lessons are now available for all the fall 2003 programs that will debut on Tuesdays at 8PM ET. Some of the season highlights include: -- Infinite Secrets (September 30): The discovery of a 1,000-year-old manuscript manuscript, a handwritten work as distinguished from printing. The oldest manuscripts, those found in Egyptian tombs, were written on papyrus; the earliest dates from c.3500 B.C. containing Archimedes' work brings to light some of the ancient mathematician's earliest surviving writings. In a related classroom activity students learn how to duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. Archimedes' method for estimating the value of pi. http://pbs.org/nova/teachers/programs/3010_archimed.html -- The Elegant Universe (October 28 and November 4): A groundbreaking theory proposes that the universe may be made of strings. A special 31-page Teacher's Guide explores current theories, nature's four fundamental forces, the essence of strings, extra dimensions, and more. http://pbs.org/nova/teachers/programs/3012_elegant.html -- Wright Brothers' Flying Machine (November 4, repeats December 16): Two brothers team up to overcome the engineering challenges of flight and succeed where others had failed. In the companion activity, students test the effects of wing warping Wing warping was an early system for controlling the roll of an aeroplane while flying. The technique, used and patented by the Wright brothers, consisted of a system of pulleys and cables to twist the trailing edges of the wings in opposite directions. by manipulating the wing surfaces of a paper airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. . http://pbs.org/nova/teachers/programs/3015_wright.html NOVA is produced for PBS by the WGBH Science Unit. The director of the WGBH Science Unit and senior executive producer of NOVA is Paula Apsell. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Park Foundation, Sprint, and Microsoft. Additional funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. The CPB was created on November 7, 1967 when U.S. president Lyndon B. and public television viewers. |
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