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| Catch the Science Bug Grade
Level: 1-4 Curriculum Area: Science/Environmental Science Catch the Science Bug is a new science program for children ages 7-10. The intent of this program is to show children that it is a big wide world to wander full of mystery and surprise. The show will feature a variety and diversity of guest scientists to show that anyone can be a scientist. Each episode of Catch the Science Bug starts with a question to be investigated. Two students called "Science Bug Investigators" attempt to answer the question. Kim Bent, the program's host, and the Science Bug, the program's mascot, set out on an adventure to meet up with a guest scientist and other children to learn the answer to the question in the first segment called, Exploring Science in Our World. The guest scientists will use demonstrations, activities, experiments, and share experiences to make science concepts engaging. The sharing of experiences will also help to illustrate the personal challenges and successes inherit to all scientific investigations. In the second segment, The Science Bug Investigator's Club, the host leads two children in a related science activity that the viewers can perform at home or teachers could use in the classroom. The third segment is the playing of the Science Bug Challenge, a quiz game based on the content presented during the episode. This quiz game is designed for the viewer at home to participate. The last segment is called Science Bug Mail and will feature kids completing pages from the Catch the Science Bug Environmental Science Journal. The purpose of this segment is to raise environmental consciousness and further involve the viewer at home. The Catch the Science Bug series will be broadcast on RIPBS in southeastern MA during the 2007-2008 school year. The mission of the television series is to get children, especially girls and minorities, excited about science and to empower them to use science to create a better world. At the same time the series debuts, hands-on science programs will be presented at libraries in the viewing area. A website will also be launched at the time of the debut to support and supplement the content of each episode.
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Island PBS Education Services Department.
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