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PBS STEM related Video Series
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Design Squad | DragonflyTV
SciGirls a new PBS KIDS GO! series and Web site out to change how tween girls think about science, technology, engineering and math. Grab your lab coats and head over to http://www.pbskids.org/scigirls today and check it out!
Our nation faces a daunting challenge: college-bound students' interest in engineering majors and careers is on the decline and statistics point
to an even greater decline in interest among minority and female students. How do we develop a larger, more diverse talent pool of engineers today to devise the technological innovations of tomorrow? Design Squad, a new reality television series that starts airing on PBS during National Engineers Week (EWeek), Feb.18-24, 2007, address this critical situation. Targeted to 9- to 12-year-old viewers, Design Squad's premise is: getting kids excited about engineering can be accomplished when you have the right ingredients--energy, enthusiasm, humor and teamwork.
Visit the Website: http://pbskids.org/designsquad/
"DragonflyTV," produced by Twin Cities Public Television, is a PBS science series that promotes authentic science inquiry by presenting "real kids doing real science." Each week, "DragonflyTV" introduces a new group of middle school students who investigate science in the world around them, from soccer-kicking experiments to studies of malformed frogs in students' back yards. Each episode includes several hands-on activities, and also features enthusiastic adult scientists who share their research, their love of science and pictures of themselves when they were kids. The program is seen on PBS stations nationwide, and streaming versions of the children's investigations are available on the Web site.
Visit the "DragonflyTV" Web site -
For kids: http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/
For parents and educators: http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/parentsteachers/index.html