ZOOM 8/Hot Spot

WGBH教育基金会正在申请资金，为“ZOOM”制作20个新节目、新的宣传和网络活动，该节目将更名为“Hot Seat”。《热座位》是美国公共广播公司每天播出半小时的电视连续剧，目标受众是8到11岁的孩子。这个节目为孩子们提供了独特的机会，让观众有机会探索、实验和分享他们的创造力。这个系列，随着其深远的延伸，为观众提供了一个创新的课程，促进获得基本的数学和科学知识，并发展解决问题的能力，被称为“思维习惯”。预期的影响是：(1)建立一个独特的整合电视、网络和外展的项目，作为媒体如何教授科学和数学的典范；(2)吸引孩子，教他们科学和数学的内容和处理技巧；(3)为组织合作伙伴提供课程和专业发展。创新包括为该系列开发三个新的内容领域——发明、空间科学和地球科学——并通过采用新的制作技术来改进项目设计，从而增强科学节目的“现实因素”。该项目的推广将包括为儿童、家庭和教育工作者提供印刷材料。一个新的合作伙伴关系正在与美国图书馆协会发展，以帮助分发新的课后课程给全国各地的图书馆员。“热点座位”将支持现有的“ZOOM”外展合作伙伴网络，并将博物馆的“ZOOMzones”转变为“热点座位”。“ZOOM”目前在269家公共广播电台播出，每周有400万儿童观看。

WGBH Educational Foundation is requesting funds to produce 20 new shows and new outreach and Web activities for "ZOOM," which will be renamed "Hot Seat." "Hot Seat" is a daily half-hour PBS television series targeted to kids ages 8 to 11. Uniquely by and for kids, the program gives its viewers a chance to explore, to experiment and to share their creativity. The series, along with its far-reaching outreach, offers its audience an innovative curriculum that promotes the acquisition of basic math and science knowledge and the development of problem solving skills called "Habits of Mind." The intended impacts are to: (1) establish a project that uniquely integrates television, the Web and outreach as a model for how media can teach science and math; (2) engage kids and teach them science and math content and process skills; (3) provide curriculum and professional development to organizational partners. Innovation includes developing three new content areas for the series -- Invention, Space Science and Earth Science -- and evolving the project design by incorporating new production techniques that enhance the "reality factor" of the science programming. Outreach for the project will include printed materials for kids, families and educators. A new collaborative partnership is being developed with the American Library Association to help distribute the new afterschool curricula to librarians across the country. "Hot Seat" will support the existing network of "ZOOM" outreach partners and convert the museum "ZOOMzones" to "Hot Seat Spots." "ZOOM" currently is carried by 269 public broadcasting stations and is viewed by 4 million children each week.