ZOOM 8/Hot Spot

WGBH教育基金会正在申请资金，以制作20个新的节目以及新的外展和网络活动，以支持将更名为“热座”的“ZOOM”。《火热座位》是美国公共广播公司每天半小时的电视连续剧，以8至11岁的儿童为对象。该节目为观众提供了探索、实验和分享创意的机会，这是由儿童和儿童独一无二的。该系列节目的影响深远，它为观众提供了一门创新的课程，旨在促进学生获得基本的数学和科学知识，并培养解决问题的技能，这种技能被称为“思维习惯”。预期的影响是：(1)建立一个独特地将电视、网络和宣传结合在一起的项目，作为媒体如何教授科学和数学的典范；(2)吸引儿童，并向他们教授科学和数学内容和处理技能；(3)向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发展项目设计，以增强科学节目的“现实因素”。该项目的外展活动将包括为儿童、家庭和教育工作者提供的印刷材料。与美国图书馆协会正在发展一种新的合作伙伴关系，以帮助向全国各地的图书馆馆员分发新的课外课程。“热座位”将支持现有的“ZOOM”外展伙伴网络，并将博物馆的“ZOOMzones”转变为“热座位点”。《Zoom》目前由269家公共广播电台转播，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.