DOCUMENT RESUME ED 448 058 SE 064 358 AUTHOR Colombo, Luann TITLE NOVA Fall 1998 Teacher's Guide. INSTITUTION WGBH-TV, Boston, MA. PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 55p. AVAILABLE FROM NOVA Teacher's Guide, WGBH, 125 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02134. E-mail: wgbh materials [email protected] PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Earthquakes; Elementary Secondary Education; Geometry; Microbiology; *Science Activities; *Science Instruction; Scientific Literacy; Space Sciences; Volcanoes IDENTIFIERS El Nino (Ocean Current); Longitude; National Science Education Standards; NOVA (Television Series) ABSTRACT This teacher's guide is designed to accompany the PBS television program "NOVA." Six science activities correspond to: (1) "Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude which researches and charts the shortest course to circumnavigate the globe;(2) "Chasing El Nino," which formulates a question and designs an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of weather folklore; (3) "Terror in Space," which explores the concept of center of mass and experiments with how altering the location of an object's center of mass can affect its motion;(4) "Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond," which investigates how geometry plays a role in perspective;(5) "Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius," which collects data and create maps to observe the relationship between volcanoes, earthquakes, and lithospheric plates; and (6)"Ice Mummies," which investigates the rate of microbial growth at different temperatures, and analyzes and interprets information in order to locate an archaeological site. All activities include a list of the National Science Education Standards addressed. 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Activity 6 Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude* Week of October 6 fil 'el 11 Chasing El Niiio!* Week of October 13 The Day the Earth Shook* (R) Week of October 20 16 Terror in Space* Week of October 27 Ili ii 21 Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond* , Week of November 3 26 Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius* Week of November 10 Flood!* (R) . Week of November 17 30 Ice Mummies* (3-Hour Special) , , Frozen in Heaven . Siberian Ice Maiden Return of the Iceman =. Week of November 24 Leopards of the Night* ... Week of December 1 ,, , .,, Plague Fighters* (R) Week of December 8 7 Supersonic Spies* (R) ,:. e Week of December 15 , Venus Unveiled** (R) Week of December 22 The Perfect Pearl* : > Week of December 29 40 NOVA Video Catalog Because of schedule changes and space * one-year off-air taping nghts Lesson within Lesson online at: constraints, some NOVA programs do not ** seven-day off-air taping nghts this grade. http://www.pbs.org/ have lessons. nova /teachers/ (R) indicates a repeat program teachersguide.html from a previous NOVA season. A Word About the Standards Increasingly, schools are moving toward teaching with standards-based curricula NOVA exemplifies the philos- ophy of such teaching by illustrating 25 Years andStill Going the realities of science and sci- SCIENCE Dear Educators, ence process EDUCATION through topical "4464'.74" This season marks NOVA's25th anniversary in science programming and issues To help education. As the highest-rated year-round series on the PBSprime-time you identify lineup, NOVA has defined science television for the United Statesand the where NOVA and world. Each program is watchedby an average of 30 million its Teacher's people a month. Guide activities fit NOVA's films are seen by viewers in more than 50 countries, fromAustralia to into such a cur- Zimbabwe. This guide issent to more than 80,000 teachers.We are grateful riculum, we have for everything you do added a section to help students discover therewards of science. to each lesson detailing how its activi- Since our birth 25 years ago, NOVA has evolved to meet theever-changing, ty aligns with the National Research rapidly-expanding needs of Council's National Science Education our viewers. Never before have our lives beenso intimately linked with science Standards (our lessons also align with and technology nor has knowledgeheld so much many of Project 2061's Benchmarks for power. Our goal is to bolster and promote science literacy in the bestway we Science Literacy) Additionally, where know how through a variety of mediums: television, NOVAOnline, and print, appropriate, we have provided connec- most notably the Teacher's Guide. tions to the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics We have taken the opportunity (published by the National Council of of this anniveraryseason to revise the NOVA Teachers of Mathematics) Teacher's Guide to help bringyou and your students into next century's world Because this guide is designed to of science education. For eachprogram, you'll find an expanded lesson that now includes: help facilitate use of NOVA programs in the classroom and is not meant to a video overview that more closely definesprogram content; be an entire curriculum, we provide alignment to the NationalScience Education Standards; lessons that allow you entry points into addressing fundamental understandings ideas for before and afterwatching to help you understand prior student from the standards and the flexibility knowledge, reacquaint you with the program's geographical locations, to customize each lesson to best meet and prepare students for theprogram's content; the needs of your students activity setup instructions foryou, including a materials list and extension ideas; reproducible student activitypages to guide students through each activity; explanations of each activity's Teaching Tips outcome, with information to helpyou answer student questions; and When using these lessons, keep in annotated resources, including mind the following books, articles and Web sites. Explain activity concept within your To accommodate the added larger unit material, we have more than doubledthe space for our lesson plans. We hope Consider students' prior knowledge that you like the changes we'vemade. We look and possible misconceptions about forward to bringing you NOVA for the next 25 years and beyond. the science concept you're teaching Provide students with several first- hand experiences of the science con- cept before introducing terminology am& apdt. Work with students to develop a Paula S. Apsell rubric within which their work will be NOVA Executive Producer measured JOva I I This Week on NOVA Check Out This section features a listing Lesson Ideas of the science articles, features In this section, you'll find and activities on the Web site ideas from your colleagues and rTeachers Site that accompany the most Previous Sites lesson plans from this teacher's recent NOVA program Bnef This section provides access guide to help you integrate descriptions and grade-level by program title or subject area current and past NOVA programs -ittp://iivviv.pils erg/noa/teachers designations are provided for to Web content for previous and NOVA Online Web sites into everything on the site NOVA programs your curnculum Sign Up for Weekly Updates Would you like to know what's coming up on NOVA each week, both on television and the Web site? Join a our mailing list and find out. Each week well send you a reminder of the date and title of the following week's broadcast, and what you'll find online to help you integrate the Web into your curriculum.