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NASA Connect segment explaining ratios and proportions. The segment describes how these math concepts helped the Wright Brothers to invent the first flying machine. NASA CONNECT™ is a series of Emmy®-award-winning, math-focused programs. Each program supports the national math, science, and technology standards and has three components that include (1) a 30-minute television broadcast; (2) a companion educator's guide; and (3) an online activity that further explores topics presented in the broadcast. These programs establish a connection between the math, science, and technology concepts taught in the classroom to those same concepts used everyday by NASA researchers.

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Instructional Media

Ice Age Death Trap

by Gray Miyashiro

Thu, January 26, 2012

Ice Age Death Trap, a one-hour NOVA-National Geographic program about the fossil find, will premiere on WCVE PBS / WHTJ PBS Wednesday, February 1, 2012. The television special follows scientists as they race against time to uncover this unique site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts, opening a vivid window into the vanished world of the Ice Age.

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FIRST Robotics Competition Gives Virginia Teams “Hoop Dreams”

Article by Jim Babb, for VirginiaFIRST Robotics – If you think playing basketball is tough, imagine the challenge of designing and building a robot that can maneuver around a court and shoot baskets while probably bumping into other robots that also are scooting around and shooting hoops. To throw in an extra twist, how about giving your robot the ability to balance on a teetering platform, too?

Instructional Media

The War of 1812

by Debbie Staughton

Tue, January 10, 2012

Bring your students to Colonial Williamsburg without ever leaving the classroom! The Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips allow students to travel through time to experience life in colonial America.

Instructional Media

NOVA: 3D Spies of World War II

by Gray Miyashiro

Fri, January 6, 2012

During World War II, Hitler’s scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors of advanced rockets and missiles, Allied intelligence recruited a team of brilliant minds from British universities and Hollywood studios to a country house near London. Here, they secretly pored over millions of air photos shot at great risk over German territory by specially converted, high-flying Spitfires. Peering at the photos through 3D stereoscopes, the team spotted telltale clues that revealed hidden Nazi rocket bases. The photos led to devas

K-12 Services

Sharpen Your Pencils for the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest

by Debbie Staughton

Mon, January 2, 2012

Thanks to the support of the Virginia College Savings Plan, the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest is now underway. All contest entries must be received by March 23, 2012. Since the only thing better than reading a good story is writing one, the Community Idea Stations are looking for your original stories.

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PBSKIDS Top Tips for Hand-Me-Down Tech Gifts This Holiday Season

In a survey of parents of 2- to 10-year-olds, PBS KIDS found that nearly a quarter of parents will find a second life for their personal tech devices this holiday season, passing their used mobile phones and computers to their kids when they get new ones for themselves. Computers (54 percent) and mobile devices (38 percent) will be the most passed down. Sharing technology can provide great learning opportunities for children through mobile apps and online games and there are simple steps parents can take to make their hand-me-down phones and computers kid-ready.

Early Childhood

Idea Kids . . . Sign Up for the January Edition

by Gray Miyashiro

Tue, December 20, 2011

You may have missed the December edition, but it is not too late to sign up for January!

What a pleasure it is to see children having fun while they are learning. Our monthly early childhood e-newsletter, Idea Kids, offers engaging ways to help children be successful in school. It is designed to meet the developmental needs of children primarily between the ages of 2-8 years old.

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Response to Governor’s Announced Budget Cuts for Public Broadcasting

From Curtis Monk, President and CEO, Commonwealth Public Broadcasting - We are disappointed that the Governor has eliminated the educational telecommunications funding from the state’s 2012/2014 budget. As has been the case in the past, we will work with the system of checks and balances that is inherent in our legislative process and seek to make the case to the General Assembly for restoration of funding for these needed services. Our concern is that this funding directly affects our educational services for parents and teachers.