Lives In Science

APSELLWGBH正在制作四个两小时的关于科学家生活的节目。这些节目将是一系列关于杰出科学家的电视肖像中的第一个节目，这些节目将作为黄金时段科学系列节目Nova的常规特写播出。前四期节目涉及的科学家包括伽利略·伽利莱、查尔斯·达尔文、玛丽·居里和珀西·朱利安。通过阐明这些重要人物的生活和科学生涯，这些节目将增进公众对进化、太阳系、化学键和原子结构等基本科学概念的理解。最终，这些节目将为观众提供一个关于科学发现过程的新视角。对这些计划的辅助教育支持将包括Nova Online网站上增强的内容和Nova教师指南中的课堂支持材料，该材料将邮寄给全国60,000名教师。WGBH还与美国图书馆协会建立了外联伙伴关系，以创建供家庭、青年和成年人使用的非正式教育资源。这一特别外联计划的核心是一套图书馆资料包，将向所有16,000家公共图书馆提供。Nova的执行制片人Paula Apsell将担任该项目的PI。咨询委员会成员包括：麻省理工学院历史和科学哲学教授Evelyn Fox Keller、麻省理工学院修辞和科学史Thomas Meloy教授Kenneth R.Manning、加州大学圣地亚哥分校历史系副教授Noami Oreskes、普林斯顿大学生态和进化生物学系主任Daniel I.Rubenstein和海登天文馆主任Frederick P.Rose的Neil D.Tyson。

9901978APSELLWGBH is producing four, two-hour programs on the lives of scientists. These programs will be the initial programs in a continuing series of television portraits of distinguished scientists to be broadcast as regular features in the prime-time science series NOVA. The scientists to be covered in the first four programs are Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, and Percy Julian. By illuminating the lives and scientific careers of these important figures, the programs will enhance public understanding of such basic scientific concepts as evolution, the solar system, the chemical bond and the structure of the atom. Ultimately, the programs will give viewers a new perspective on the process of scientific discovery. Ancillary educational support for the programs will include enhanced content on the web site at NOVA Online and classroom support material in the NOVA Teacher's Guide that is mailed to 60,000 teachers nationwide. WGBH also has formed an outreach partnership with the American Library Association to create informal educational resources for use by families, youths, and adults. The core of this special outreach plan is a set of Library Resource Kits that will be available to all 16,000 public libraries. Paula Apsell, Executive Producer for NOVA, will serve as PI for the project. Members of the advisory committee include: Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, MIT; Kenneth R. Manning, Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and of the History of Science, MIT; Noami Oreskes, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego; Daniel I. Rubenstein, Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University; and Neil D. Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium.