From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Live From The Rainforest and Live From The Poles: YOU are
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 14:52:34 -0600
Dear discuss-lfm members,
This week's "What's Up" file is replaced by this very important
announcement/invitation!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Jan Wee, moderator of discuss-lfm
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PLAN NOW...
THINK AHEAD, and *PLAN* for SOME UNIQUE LEARNING EXPERIENCES...
YOU and YOUR STUDENTS are invited to bring "REAL SCIENCE
REAL LOCATIONS, REAL SCIENTISTS, REAL TIME" into your learning
environment via TWO upcoming PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE projects
this SPRING 1998!
--------->LIVE FROM THE RAINFOREST
*Live Telecasts* April 7th, 14th, & 21st, 1998 from on location
in Brazil, Hawaii and across North America; live at 13:00-14:00 EASTERN.
&
---------->LIVE FROM THE POLES
A *special* live telecast on April 28, 1998 from the Antarctic and Arctic in
conjunction with NSF's National Science & Technology Week (NSTW).
13:00-14:00 Eastern. NSTW (whose theme for 1998 is "Polar Connections:
Exploring the World's Natural Laboratories") is celebrated April 26-May 2, 1998.
I. LIVE FROM THE RAINFOREST
Content focus: Science and Social Studies, with interdisciplinary
extensions to math, language arts, computers, etc.; Special
focus on biodiversity.
Grades: 4-12
Telecasts:
Three live telecasts April 7, 14, and 21, 1998.
Freely available via NASA-TV or PBS participating
stations. Special segments showing how students can use data from
NASA spacecraft and the Space Shuttle to connect "remote sensing"
with "ground truth" to better understand our planet and the regions
where they themselves live.
Taping rights: one year from broadcast dates. Call 908-595-o949 for
pricing on the 3 one hour videos if not available via satellite access
in your area.
Support Materials:
Teacher's Guide pack available includes 60 page guide featuring
hands-on activities, special PTK full color LFRF poster, student
worksheets, and more. $20.00 per guide pack.
Multi-media Kit includes Teacher's Guide pack described above,
teacher resource video with rainforest background and segments
demonstrating how to implement hands-on activities via classroom
demonstrations, sample online materials, set of 35mm slides, and more!
$125.00 per multi-media kit,
Availability: EARLY 1998
Online Resources: Via the Web / Presently under development.
Web date availability: EARLY 1998!
Web address to be announced!
To subscribe to an online update, bringing you the latest plans and
information, send an e-mail to: listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov
In the message body write: subscribe updates-lfrf
Send your message and you will receive a welcome/confirmation
message and regular updates.
Overview of live telecasts:
Three one-hour programs take students via live TV and the Internet
around the world to visit global rain forests. Then
students will look back home to connect the science and social
studies they've experienced to North America's own diverse
environments, exploring issues of biodiversity by comparing
Hawaiian and Brazilian rainforests and the temperate rain forest of the
Pacific Northwest, as well as urban back lots, with the amazing
and instructive international sites they've seen.
PROGRAM 1
"Mission to Planet Earth" Tuesday, April 7, 1998
13:00-14:00 PM EST
This program will show the diversity of rain forests around our
planet, and their connection to how we live, no matter where
we live. State-of-the-art visualizations show how ground truth
and remote sensing combine to give the most current picture of
a dynamic and living ecosystem.
PROGRAM 2
"Worlds Beneath the Canopy"
Tuesday, April 14, 1998
13:00-14:00 PM EST
Real time interaction between students in North America, and
researchers on camera in Brazil focuses on the many animal species
to be found in the varied ecological niches provided by rain
forests. Students will also see how sustainable development can
assist the human inhabitants of the rain forest, while preserving
viable environments of animals, plants and living organisms which
are a library of genetic diversity created by nature over the eons.
NASA images demonstrate how satellite technology can assist
nations in long-term monitoring and management of their resources.
PROGRAM 3
"Connect Globally, Act Locally"
Tuesday, April 21, 1998
13:00-14:00 PM EST
>From the Brazilian, Hawaiian, and North American rainforests and urban back
lots,
where lessons of biodiversity are literally brought home, the third
and final program will show how the Internet and educational
telecommunications can create new, ongoing collaborations between
world-class researchers and secondary school students.
II. LIVE FROM THE POLES...
PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE/NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK special
Tuesday, April 28, 1998 13:00-14:00 EASTERN
Content focus: Science and social studies, with interdisciplinary
connections to math, language arts, computers, etc. Special
focus on ozone research, weather and atmosphere, global climate
change, and adaptation to extreme environments.
Grades: 4-12
Telecasts: Live telecast freely accessible via participating PBS stations.
Taping rights for one year from broadcast date.
Materials: a Guide with Activities will be available from NSF:
See NSF's NSTW web site for more information:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/start.htm
Or contact NSTW, NSF Office of Legislative and Public Affairs,
Room 1245, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va., 22230 For more
information on NSTW '98 -- for updates as plans and events are
scheduled -- send an e-mail at nstw@nsf.gov
Check your local science center or children's museum: 40 sites
around the nation are part of the NSF's network, providing materials
and hands-on training for teachers and others working with youngsters.
In honor of NSF's National Science and Technology Week, whose theme
for 1998 is "Polar Connections: Exploring the World's Natural
Laboratories," PTK presents a live, one hour special linking
students across North America with researchers literally "up North"
and way "down South", via interactive videoconferencing. Students
will see the great differences between the Arctic and Antarctic,
and find out--for example--why and how humans have long inhabited
the northern polar regions, but never traveled south except as
seasonal and temporary explorers. Why are there polar bears up north,
but no penguins, and vice versa at the other end of the globe?
Just as in PTK's previous two LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA Modules,
cutting-edge telecommunications will bring home science relevant
to the core curriculum, but give it a very human face, as we see
amazing scenes of the lives and careers of the men and women who
brave hardships and go to extremes to understand Earth's last
frontiers.
>>>>BACKGROUND MATERIALS AVAILABLE...
As background for these unique learning experiences, materials from
both previous PTK field trips to Antarctica remain available and
useful:
Live From Antarctica Teacher's Guide Pack: $20.00
LFA Videos: four one hour programs: "The Coldest, Windiest,
Iciest Place on Earth". "Life in Antarctica: Then and Now".
"Spaceship South Pole". "Antarctica From Pole to Planet". $19.95 per
program/$70.00 per set of four programs. Price includes shipping
and handling. For full program descriptions see:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/television.html
Live From Antarctica 2 Teacher's Guide Pack: $20.00/ Multi-media
Kit: $125.00. LFA 2 videos: three one hour programs: "Oceans, Ice and Life"
"The Secrets of Survival" and "Seeing the Future?" available for $19.95
per program or $55.00/set of three (price includes shipping and handling)
PTK is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation
and NASA.