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WVIA V-Media Newsletter "People change and lives improve when powerful ideas challenge us. WVIA public media is a regional catalyst, convener and educator, using media, parternships, ideas and programs to advance the best attributes of an enlightened society."

in this issue :: The Financial Meltdown :: Real Kids Doing Real Science :: Students bridging the gap of Alzheimers Disease :: The Bible's Buried Secrets :: Mapping Stem Cell Research :: Design Sqaud :: Watch Scholastic Scrimmage and Artist of the Week :: Coming Soon: Looking for Lincoln

DVDs and Teacher Guides available from The Pennsylvania College of Technology

WVIA and Penn Tech have teamed up to provide educators with new resources to help illustrate the exciting careers available in the field of technology. We are very proud to present the first of a series on Nanotechnology. Please visit WVIA's website at www.wvia.org/education to download the curriculum guides or call Andrea O'Neill at (570) 602-1182

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I.O.U.S.A. Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita Wake up, America... We're on the brink of a financial meltdown! Veteran Because of its immense implications, the debate over stem cell research has become more filmmaker Patrick Creadon boldly heated with recent scientific advances. With the passage-and veto-of federal and state examines the rapidly growing national legislation regarding this research, a variety of questions have entered the national dialogue. debt and its alarming consequences. As What is the public need for the Baby Boomer generation prepares to this research? Who will have access to these treatments? Who will own the results of scientific retire, many experts warn that if we breakthroughs? continue down this financial road, America will be flat broke in a generation. In I.O.U.S.A., Director Patrick Creadon looks at how America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.

To download the discussion guide: MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra http://wvia.org/vmedia/newsletter/IOUSA_discussion.pdf Incognita puts a human face on this controversial subject. When neurologist Dr. Jack Kessler's daughter Or, for more, visit the film's website: injured her spine in a skiing accident, he turned his energies toward finding a method to repair http://itvs.org/iousa/ damaged spinal cords, re-focusing his research on developing a therapy using embryonic stem cells to regenerate the damaged parts of the nervous system. His research has taken him into a very sensitive area in which Catholic and fundamentalist Christian views about the beginning of life exert a powerful influence.

To find out more or access teacher resources: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/stemcell/index.html

Dragonfly tv Design Squad Engineers have led a technological revolution that has improved the quality of our lives, yet DragonflyTV features real kids -ages nine to 13 - doing many kids and adults alike do not understand how the technology they use in their daily lives real science. The show encourages all kids to discover the works. They are also unclear about the engineer's role in society or even what an engineer wonders of science by rolling up their sleeves and does. participating.

DragonflyTV seeks to introduce kids to science inquiry. Episodes include: Body and Brain, Earth and Space Science, Living Things, Matter and Motion and Technology and Invention.

Find puzzles, experiments and other great classroom resources at: http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/

Design Squad is one of the few places on TV where kids can learn about engineering. There is a Bridge DESIGN SQUAD is a reality competition show that follows eight high school contestants as THERE IS A BRIDGE offers different ways of thinking they tackle engineering challenges for real world clients. In the final episode, the top about Alzheimer's disease and dementia in the elderly. two scorers battle for the Grand Prize-a $10,000 college scholarship from the Intel Foundation. Hosted by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, THERE IS For more information or for teacher resources: A BRIDGE profiles the individuals and programs that are reaching out to elders suffering with Alzheimer's and COMPLETE EDUCATORS GUIDE: gives new, meaningful insight into these conditions. http://wvia.org/vmedia/newsletter/ds_pe_ed_guide_complete.pdf

Home: http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/getting_started.html

ACTIVITIES: http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/activities.html

A New Season of Contests to Air! The Chicago Memory Bridge Initiative educates junior high and high school students about Alzheimer's We are finished taping our Scholastic Scrimmage competition and our Artists have been to our disease and related issues, pairing each student with a studio to demonstrate their talents, but we can't tell you what happened - you will have to person living with Alzheimer's disease. watch!

To take advantage of this educational opportunity, go to: http://www.memorybridge.org/ resources.php

Tune in to WVIA TV Sundays @7pm to watch area students compete for a chance to win $4,000 for their school.

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On NOVA: The Bible's Buried Secrets Tune in throughout the week and on wvia.org to see our region's talented student artists! On November 18th, NOVA's The Bible's Buried Secrets will air it's 2 hour premiere. Looking for Lincoln Looking for Lincoln will broadcast in February 2009 for the Bicentennial Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birth. It explores how the American perception of Lincoln has been shaped between his assassination and the present day. It is a two-hour show hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Coming February 2009 to PBS

The Bible's Buried Secrets explores the intersection of archeology, history, and religion, and brings together more than a century of archeological excavation and biblical scholarship. The Bible's Buried Secrets follows a distinguished line of PBS programs focused n the origins of world religions.

For more information or teacher resources: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/

Lioness

Despite a Department of Defense policy banning women from direct ground combat, U.S. military commanders have been using women as an essential part of their ground operations in Iraq since 2003. The female soldiers who accompany male troops on patrols and house-to-house searches are known as Team Lioness, and have proved to be invaluable. Their presence not only helps calm women and children, but Lioness troops are also able to conduct searches of the women, without violating cultural strictures. Against official policy, without the training given to their male counterparts, and with a firm commitment to serve as needed, these dedicated young women have been drawn into the fighting in some of the most violent counterinsurgency battles in Iraq. Yet they are rarely, if ever, mentioned in news accounts of those battles. LIONESS profiles five women who saw action in Iraq's Sunni Triangle during 2003 and 2004. As members of the U.S. Army's 1st Engineer Battalion, Shannon Morgan, Rebecca Nava, Kate Pendry Guttormsen, Anastasia Breslow and Ranie Ruthig were sent to Iraq to provide supplies and logistical support to their male colleagues. Not trained for combat duty, the women unexpectedly became involved with fighting in the streets of Ramadi. Told through interviews, journal excerpts and archival footage, LIONESS offers a portrait of five soldiers who are also wives, mothers and daughters, and who have long coped with the demands of military life, especially the sacrifices involved in leaving behind spouses and young children. These combat-tested women exemplify what it means to be a good soldier, and illustrate the complicated role that women play in direct war combat. Reflecting on their recent deployment, the Lionesses display strength and candor, bridging the gap between the perception and the reality of the essential role women are playing in Iraq.

Teacher discussion guids and handouts available at wvia.org http://wvia.org/vmedia/newsletter/lioness_discussion.pdf http://wvia.org/vmedia/newsletter/lioness_facilitator.pdf

Department of Veteran's Affairs Factsheet: http://wvia.org/vmedia/newsletter/returning_vets.pdf or the Lioness website: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lioness/getinvolved.html

Take your students on a field trip without every leaving the classroom! Free Colonial Williamsburg Field Trips for your students! WVIA is giving away Electronic Field trips from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation A $120.00 value! FREE for our member school districts!

Field Trips include: -Interactive, multi-disciplanary lessons -web-based, standards-aligned teacher resources -primary sources and taping rights -technical assistance and streaming -online resources - use when they fit your curriculum

Available Trips: December 11: Making History Live Take a behind the scenes look at how historical characters are created and see how museum interpreters bring the past to life. January 15: In Pursuit of Science Follow a young colonial boy in his exploration of science and the world around him. Discover the important Scientific exploration in early America. February 19: Freedom Bound Examine the options for slaves willing to risk their lives for freedom. Learn how these answers changed over time from the American Colonies' first slave laws file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Calesta Schmitt.WVIAFMTV/Local Settings/Temp/fcctemp/Attach0 13.html (3 of 4)11/24/2008 10:59:43 AM file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Calesta Schmitt.WVIAFMTV/Local Settings/Temp/fcctemp/Attach0 13.html to the Underground Railroad. March 26: Remember the Ladies Ini 1776, Abigail Adams requested that her husband "remember the ladies" when establishign the government and laws of the new nation. Examine the roles, responsibilities, and daily activities of early American women. April 23: Soldier of Liberty Experience the everyday life of a soldier during the American Revolution. March into battle as Nathaniel Hutcheson encounters for the fist time the noise, confusion and horrors of war.

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