FETCH With Ruff Ruffman, Season Two

由WGBH制作的《FETCH》是美国公共广播公司（PBS）推出的一个新的电视系列节目，附带了针对6至10岁儿童的网络和外展活动。该节目以独特的方式将真人秀与动画、游戏节目与现实节目、幽默与学术结合在一起，为幼儿带来科学学习。预期的影响是：1)培养儿童的“科学素养”——对科学的欣赏和享受，成为独立研究者所需的技能和对科学概念的广泛理解；2)为项目合作者提供内容丰富的非正式科学教育活动；3)展示如何利用媒体来教授实体科学。申请的资金将允许该项目扩充科学课程，增加20集半小时的新剧集，并扩充网站，重点关注三个新的科学主题：人体、力与运动、地球与环境。此外，资金将支持为课后合作伙伴提供新的教育资源，并为FETCH展览提供工具包，这将与博物馆合作伙伴协调开发。古德曼研究小组将对电视节目和博物馆工具包进行总结性评估。

FETCH, produced by WGBH, is a new PBS television series with accompanying Web and outreach activities targeted to 6- to 10-year olds. The program brings science learning to young children by uniquely blending live-action with animation, game show convention with reality programming, and humor with academics. The intended impacts are to 1) cultivate in children "scientific literacy" -- an appreciation for and enjoyment of science, the skills necessary to become independent investigators and a broad understanding of scientific concepts; 2) provide project collaborators with content-rich activities for informal science education in a range of settings; and 3) demonstrate how media can be used to teach substantive science. The requested funds will allow the project to expand the science curriculum with 20 new half-hour episodes and expand the Web site, focusing on three new science themes: human body, force and motion, and earth and the environment. In addition, funds will support new educational resources for afterschool partners and a toolkit for FETCH exhibits, which will be developed in coordination with museum partners. Goodman Research Group will conduct summative evaluation of both the television show and the museum toolkit.