DragonflyTV's Science Center Showcase

双城公共电视台正在为DragonflyTV制作一个新的全国性节目“科学中心展示”（SCS），这是一个针对9-12岁儿童的每周科学电视系列节目。该计划将包括六集新节目，展示儿童在美国各地的科学中心进行基于探究的调查。该系列呈现真实的探究式调查，由儿童创造并为儿童创造。这些节目的重点是让孩子们自己进行科学调查，并分享他们自己发现的兴奋。每项调查都将展示在科学中心的学习经历与这些课程在日常经验中的应用之间的直接联系。SCS将涉及10个或更多的科学中心合作伙伴，并在牵头合作伙伴、ASTC和明尼苏达科学博物馆的协助下进行协调。多媒体研究和RMC研究将分别进行形成性和总结性评估。SCS模式结合了蜻蜓卫视在媒体方面的独特优势和国家科学中心的丰富资源。对于非正式的科学专业人员，SCS将定义媒体和博物馆专业人员合作和相互学习的新方式。它还将为全国各地的公共电视台和科学中心之间的伙伴关系和合作提供新的机会。对于电视观众来说，这些节目将为科学中心和其他地方的孩子们展示丰富多样的科学体验。通过与ASTC、明尼苏达科学博物馆和其他科学中心的新的合作努力，DragonflyTV的“科学中心展示”项目有可能向全国电视观众传达丰富多样的真实STEM探究机会，这些机会可供全国各地科学中心的年轻人使用。该项目还具有以下潜力：a)有助于研究如何将知识从科学中心转化为自然世界的经验；b)向展览开发人员和电视专业人员传授非正式科学教育的新方法。

Twin Cities Public Television is producing a new national initiative, the "Science Center Showcase" (SCS) for DragonflyTV, the weekly science television series targeted at children ages 9-12. The initiative will entail six new episodes presenting children engaged in inquiry-based investigations, on-location in science centers across America. The series presents authentic inquiry-based investigations, created by and for children. The programs focus on children doing their own scientific investigations and sharing the excitement that comes from making their own discoveries. Each investigation will demonstrate the direct connection between learning experiences in science centers and the application of those lessons in everyday experience. The SCS will involve ten or more science center partners, and be coordinated with the assistance of lead partners, ASTC and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Multimedia Research and RMC Research will conduct formative and summative evaluations, respectively. The SCS model combines DragonflyTV's unique strengths in media with the rich resources of the nation's science centers. For informal science professionals, the SCS will define new ways media and museum professionals can work together and learn from each other. It will also provide new opportunities for partnerships and collaboration between public television stations and science centers across the country. For the television audience, the programs will demonstrate the richness and variety of sciences experiences for kids in science centers and beyond. Through new collaborative efforts with ASTC, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and other science centers, the DragonflyTV's "Science Center Showcase" project has the potential to communicate to a national television audience the richness and variety of engaging opportunities for authentic STEM inquiry that are available for young people at science centers across the country. The project also has the potential to a) contribute to research into how knowledge is transferred from science centers to experiences in the natural world, and b) educate exhibit developers and television professionals in new approaches to informal science education.