Grades 10-12: A Hall of Fame Career: Stephen Light

Program Flyer: A Hall of Fame Career: Stephen Light
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Content Provider

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 2007-08
Contact Information
Katie Morris

kmorris@baseballhalloffame.org

25 Main Street

Cooperstown, NY 13326

United States

Phone: (607) 547-0347

Fax: (607) 547-4094

Program Type
Program SeriesThis is a self-contained part of a series.

Program Rating
This program has not yet been evaluated.

Target Audience
Education: Grade(s): 10, 11, 12

Primary Disciplines
Career Education

Secondary Disciplines
Character Education

Program Description
Stephen Light is the Manager of Museum Programs at the Baseball Hall of Fame.He received his undergraduate degree in History, with a minor in Civil Ware Era Studies from Gettysburg College, as well as a graduate degree in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. He was a Special Collections Archive Intern at Gettysburg College, a Museum Educator at the Columbia County Historical Society and a Steele Education Intern at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Program Format
1. The program will begin with an introduction to the Baseball Hall of Fame.2. The presenter will then talk briefly about their educational background (subjects they enjoyed, their major/focus in college and beyond).3. The presenter will discuss their professional background and how they ended up at the Hall of Fame.4. Students will be able to ask questions of the presenter.

Objectives
The participant will:-explore the backgrounds of Hall of Fame employees to show the diversity of the job market.-engage in a discussion with professionals of a variety of backgrounds, who will then be able to answer questions based on students' educational interests.

National Standards to which this program aligns
Life Work standard 5: Makes general preparation for entering the work forceLevel IV [Grade 9-12]Benchmark 2. Determines the types of preparation and training needed for entry-level jobs1. Determines the types of preparation needed for entry-level jobs2. Determines the types of training needed for entry-level jobsBenchmark 3. Understands occupational apprenticeships and other training opportunities2. Understands job training opportunities3. Understands job shadowingBenchmark 4. Understands available educational opportunities1. Understands educational opportunities at colleges2. Understands educational opportunities at junior colleges3. Understands educational opportunities from job training programsBenchmark 10. Establishes an explicit career action plan, including short- and long-term goals1. Establishes an explicit career action plan that includes short-term goals2. Establishes an explicit career action plan that includes long-term goalsBenchmark 11. Makes an accurate appraisal of available work options, prior work experience, career goals, personal character, job references, and personal aptitudes1. Makes an accurate appraisal of available work options2. Makes an accurate appraisal of available prior work experience3. Makes an accurate appraisal of available career goals4. Makes an accurate appraisal of available personal character5. Makes an accurate appraisal of available job references6. Makes an accurate appraisal of available personal aptitudesBenchmark 13. Evaluates the chances of getting a job now and in the future in fields of work that are of interest1. Evaluates the chances of getting a job now in the fields of work that are of interest2. Evaluates the chances of getting a job in the future in the fields of work that are of interestBenchmark 17. Understands how academic knowledge and skills are related to specific careers or occupational groups1. Understands how academic knowledge and skills are related to specific careers2. Understands how academic knowledge and skills are related to occupational groupsBenchmark 18. Evaluate potential career choices in relation to personal interests, strengths, and values1. Evaluates potential career choices in relation to personal interests2. Evaluates potential career choices in relation to personal strengths3. Evaluates potential career choices in relation to personal values

Program Length
45-60 minutes

10/10/08 1pm - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time

This a special event and will be offered at this time only.
Connection Type(s) Available and Program Fees

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Cancellation Policy
As this is a free, first come / first served program, there will be no cancellation policy. However, please respect that these staff members are taking time out of their day to talk to students about their educational careers.

Is video taping allowed?
No

Video Taping Notes
If circulating, please keep video within the school/school district.

The Provider broadcasts over
ISDN Minimum Broadcast Speed: 128 K Maximum Broadcast Speed: 768 KIP

Minimum Technology Specifications for sites connecting to this provider
Schools must dial into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Connection may be made over IP or ISDN. We prefer to have a test date prior to the videoconference to check on system compatibility.
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Grades 4-6: Impact Craters: An Investigation Using the Scientific Method

CILC

Program Flyer: Impact Craters: An Investigation Using the Scientific Method
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Content Provider
NASA Digital Learning Network (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Contact Information
Dr. Marci Delaney

marci.delaney@nasa.gov

Goddard Space Flight Center/ DLN

Mail Code 130.3

Greenbelt, MD 20771

United States

Phone: (301) 286-7992

Program Type
Individual Program

Program Rating
This program has not yet been evaluated.

Target Audience
Education: Grade(s): 4, 5, 6

Primary Disciplines
Career Education, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Sciences, Technology/Information Science

Program Description
The Impact Craters DLN event provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of the scientific method. They will investigate the factors that determine the appearance of impact craters and ejecta on surfaces found in space. Students will be guided to follow the scientific method and formulate a hypothesis about various aspects of projectiles that may strike a surface, causing impact craters and ejecta. Each step of the scientific method is explored and discussed as a visually demonstrated experiment unfolds.

Program Format
Students will formulate a hypothesis on a cratering experiment described to them by the host. The students will then watch a series of video clips of the experiment and record the data. They will analyze the data collected and create a conclusion verifying or voiding their hypothesis.

Objectives
Students will be able to:-identify examples of impact craters by describing impact craters found around the Earth-define selected vocabulary words by inferring meaning using context clues in given sentences-formulate predictions and compose a hypothesis for a scientific experiment by conceiving possible factors that will affect the appearance of impact craters on a surface-apply critical thinking skills by analyzing data obtained from an experiment to develop a conclusion statement-generate a research plan by evaluating self-generated data to describe an impact crater and the impactor

National Standards to which this program aligns
Unifying Concepts and ProcessesSystems, order, and organizationEvidence, models, and explanationChange, constancy, and measurementForm and functionScience as InquiryAbilities necessary to do scientific inquiryUnderstandings about scientific inquiryPhysical ScienceProperties of objects and materialsPosition, motions, and forces of objectsInteractions of energy and matterEarth and Space ScienceProperties of earth materialsObjects in the sky

Program Length
50 Minutes

By Request
This program is available by request/on demand ONLY
Connection Type(s) Available and Program Fees

By Request/On Demand Cost: $0.00By Request/On Demand Cost with Premium Service: $0.00 What's this?

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Cancellation Policy
Contact us as soon as the cancellation is made.

Is video taping allowed?
No

The Provider broadcasts over
IPInternet 2

Minimum Technology Specifications for sites connecting to this provider
The NASA DLN prefers schools to dial into us at a baud rate no lower than 384. Once your event is confirmed, we will provide you with the IP address to call.
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Grades 6-12: The Art of "Cool:" Art and Architecture of 1950s California

Program Flyer: The Art of "Cool:" Art and Architecture of 1950s California
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Content Provider

HEC-TV 2007-08 Honorable Mention

Contact Information
Tim Gore

live@hectv.org

8390 Delmar Blvd

Suite 211

St Louis, MO 63124

United States

Phone: (314) 432-3476

Program Type
Individual Program

Program Rating
This program has not yet been evaluated.

Target Audience
Education: Grade(s): 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Primary Disciplines
Fine Arts, Visual Arts

Program Description
Engaging directly with works of art on display in the Birth of the Cool exhibition, participating students will be invited to experience the cultural realm of the “cool” through painting, graphic design, animation, architecture, photography, and jazz music. Students will learn about the central themes of the exhibition, and also have a chance to consider challenging and relevant questions about what makes a style “cool,” the timelessness of “cool,” and how that connects to what we consider “cool” today.These “virtual” visits to the Museum support interdisciplinary learning by connecting Visual Art, Music, Language Arts, and Social Studies content areas, and addresses a range of National Content Standards in these diverse curricular areas. Each student participant will receive a 16-page color Education Guide prior to their participation in this program, and teachers will receive lesson plans and materials that can be used to integrate the content of this program into their classroom activities.Connecting exhibitions at the Kemper Art Museum to school curricula and classroom learning, these distance learning programs challenge students, teachers, schools, and museums to rethink ideas and art and learning in the digital age. Engaging not only with artworks that explore media literacy and visual communication but also with the computer-based interface of distance learning, students will be challenged to consider how the arts connect to contemporary life.EXHIBITION SUMMARY:On display at the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University from September 19, 2008, to January 5, 2009.Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury takes a retrospective look at the broad cultural climate of cool that informed the architecture, painting, photography, furniture, graphic arts, film, and music produced in Southern California during the 1950s. The exhibition includes more than 200 objects as well as a jazz lounge, interactive timeline, and a media bar with film, animation, and television programming.As referred to in the title of the exhibition, Birth of the Cool explores multiple aspects of the “cool” attitude that pervaded mid-century modern art and design. From the pure and rational sensibility of modernist design to the mellow and laid-back sound of West Coast jazz, the essence of cool as defined in the 1950s echoes throughout this exhibition.The resurgent interest in this aesthetic of cool evidences how many aspects of midcentury culture are still recognized as hallmarks of style and sophistication. Birth of the Cool looks back to this progressive time and place in order to better understand the interrelationships among the arts and artists, acknowledging their innovations and exploring a unique aesthetic and attitude that were nurtured by the culture and remain relevant today.Organized by the Orange County Museum of Art in Los Angeles and curated by Elizabeth Armstrong.

Program Format
The program will focus on specific works of painting, photography and architecture in the exhibition. Once you have enrolled for the program, you will receive an agenda that lists the works so your students can learn more about them and the artists in the exhibition guide that you will also receive. You and your students will also receive copies of the exhibit’s exhibition guide.The program will proceed as a tour through the exhibition. Students will have many opportunities to interact with the works and ask questions of the curators as we go through the exhibition. Discussion will include aesthetic response to the works, the concept of “cool” that they display, the influences apparent in the works, the influences of the works, processes used to create the works, information about the artists, and interaction between student groups as they share their views of the works they see.

Objectives
1. Visual literacy: Students will examine works of art in-depth and talk about what they see through the use of some basic terms and principles of design.2. Cross-disciplinary connections: Students will make connections between works of different artistic media, such as film, music, painting, and furniture, and consider how these different art forms could be considered “cool” in the period of the 1950s.3. Historical and cultural context: Students will consider and discuss the time period of the 1950s in the United States and California, linking the design and “style” of these works to that historical period.4. Contemporary relevance: Students will begin to think about connections between these works of art, their relevance to today’s society, and what we

now define as “cool.”

National Standards to which this program aligns
Featured National Standards--Visual Arts and MusicNA-VA.9-12.3 Choosing and Evaluating a Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, & IdeasStudents reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture.NA-VA.9-12.5 Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of the Work of OthersStudents correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.NA-VA.9-12.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other DisciplinesStudents compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis.NA.M.9-12.6 Listening to, Analyzing, and Describing MusicStudents analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive.NA-M.9-12.8 Understanding Relationships between Music & the Other ArtsStudents explain how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

State Standards to which this program aligns
Schools from across the country are invited to join in the program. Missouri state standards are provided for Missouri schools since funding for this program comes from The Missouri Arts Council.Featured Missouri Grade Level Expectations (GLE):GLE: FA 3: 1.A Aesthetics - Investigate the nature of art and discuss responses to artworks.GLE: FA 3: 2.A Art Criticism - Analyze and evaluate art using art vocabulary.GLE: CA 5: 1.5, 1.7, 2.7 Media Messages - Develop and apply effective skills and strategies to analyze and evaluate visual media. (e.g., videos, pictures, websites, and artwork)GLE: MU 8:1.A Connections Between Music and Related Arts - Develop and apply knowledge and skills to understand the relationships between music, the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.

Program Length
60 minutes

10/14/08 10 - 11 am or 1 - 2 pm Central Daylight Time

Connection Type(s) Available and Program Fees

Interactive Cost: $0.00View Only Cost: $0.00
Premium Service provices additional benefits. Learn more!Receiving Site is responsible for own line charge

Program Fee Notes
There is NO CHARGE>/b> for this program.

Cancellation Policy
Please contact us to cancel as soon as you know it is necessary.

Is video taping allowed?
No

The Provider broadcasts over
IPInternet 2

Minimum Technology Specifications for sites connecting to this provider
All connections are made via IP through our bridge organization, MOREnet. Once you have enrolled for the program, we will put you in contact with MOREnet so you can complete a test call prior to the program. The test call must be conducted to ensure your participation in the program.

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Grades 6-12: Cool Art Meets Cool Music: Interdisciplinary Connections in a Culture of "Cool"

CILC

Program Flyer: Cool Art Meets Cool Music: Interdisciplinary Connections in a Culture of "Cool"

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Content Provider

HEC-TV 2007-08 Honorable Mention
Contact Information

Tim Gore

live@hectv.org

8390 Delmar Blvd

Suite 211

St Louis, MO 63124

United States

Phone: (314) 432-3476

Program Type
Individual Program

Program Rating
This program has not yet been evaluated.

Target Audience
Education: Grade(s): 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Primary Disciplines
Fine Arts, Performing Arts

Program Description
Engaging directly with works of art on display in the Birth of the Cool exhibition, participating students will be invited to experience the cultural realm of the “cool” through painting, graphic design, animation, architecture, photography, and jazz music. This program will focus on the role of West Coast jazz music in the larger cultural context of “cool” that formed in 1950s California. We’ll make critical connections with the visual arts to draw out links among these artistic forms and creative processes. Students will learn about the central themes of the exhibition, and also have a chance to consider challenging and relevant questions about what makes a style “cool,” the timelessness of “cool,” and how that connects to what we consider “cool” today.These “virtual” visits to the Museum support interdisciplinary learning by connecting Visual Art, Music, Language Arts, and Social Studies content areas, and addresses a range of National Content Standards in these diverse curricular areas. Each student participant will receive a 16-page color Education Guide prior to their participation in this program, and teachers will receive lesson plans and materials that can be used to integrate the content of this program into their classroom activities.Connecting exhibitions at the Kemper Art Museum to school curricula and classroom learning, these distance learning programs challenge students, teachers, schools, and museums to rethink ideas and art and learning in the digital age. Engaging not only with artworks that explore media literacy and visual communication but also with the computer-based interface of distance learning, students will be challenged to consider how the arts connect to contemporary life.EXHIBITION SUMMARY:On display at the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University from September 19, 2008, to January 5, 2009.Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury takes a retrospective look at the broad cultural climate of cool that informed the architecture, painting, photography, furniture, graphic arts, film, and music produced in Southern California during the 1950s. The exhibition includes more than 200 objects as well as a jazz lounge, interactive timeline, and a media bar with film, animation, and television programming.As referred to in the title of the exhibition, Birth of the Cool explores multiple aspects of the “cool” attitude that pervaded mid-century modern art and design. From the pure and rational sensibility of modernist design to the mellow and laid-back sound of West Coast jazz, the essence of cool as defined in the 1950s echoes throughout this exhibition.The resurgent interest in this aesthetic of cool evidences how many aspects of midcentury culture are still recognized as hallmarks of style and sophistication. Birth of the Cool looks back to this progressive time and place in order to better understand the interrelationships among the arts and artists, acknowledging their innovations and exploring a unique aesthetic and attitude that were nurtured by the culture and remain relevant today.Organized by the Orange County Museum of Art in Los Angeles and curated by Elizabeth Armstrong.

Program Format
The program will focus on specific works of jazz music, painting, photography and architecture included in the exhibition. Once you have enrolled for the program, you will receive an agenda that lists the works so your students can learn more about them and the artists in the exhibition guide that you will also receive. The program will proceed as a tour through the exhibition. Students will have many opportunities to interact with the works, listen to the music, and ask questions of the curators as we go through the exhibition. Discussion will include aesthetic response to the works, the concept of “cool” that they display, the influences apparent in the works, the influences of the works, reaction to the jazz music and how it complements or fails to complement the artistic works, information about the jazz artists and visual artists, and interaction between student groups as they share their views of the works they see and music they hear.

Objectives
1. Visual literacy: Students will examine works of art in-depth and talk about what they see through the use of some basic terms and principles of design.2. Cross-disciplinary connections: Students will make connections between works of different artistic media, such as film, music, painting, and furniture, and consider how these different art forms could be considered “cool” in the period of the 1950s.3. Historical and cultural context: Students will consider and discuss the time period of the 1950s in the United States and California, linking the design and “style” of these works to that historical period.4. Contemporary relevance: Students will begin to think about connections between these works of art, their relevance to today’s society, and what we now define as “cool.”

National Standards to which this program aligns
Featured National Standards--Visual Arts and MusicNA-VA.9-12.3 Choosing and Evaluating a Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, & IdeasStudents reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture.NA-VA.9-12.5 Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of the Work of OthersStudents correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.NA-VA.9-12.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other DisciplinesStudents compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis.NA.M.9-12.6 Listening to, Analyzing, and Describing MusicStudents analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive.NA-M.9-12.8 Understanding Relationships between Music & the Other ArtsStudents explain how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

State Standards to which this program aligns
Schools from across the country are invited to join in the program. Missouri state standards are provided for Missouri schools since funding for this program comes from The Missouri Arts Council.Featured Missouri Grade Level Expectations (GLE):GLE: FA 3: 1.A Aesthetics - Investigate the nature of art and discuss responses to artworks.GLE: FA 3: 2.A Art Criticism - Analyze and evaluate art using art vocabulary.GLE: CA 5: 1.5, 1.7, 2.7 Media Messages - Develop and apply effective skills and strategies to analyze and evaluate visual media. (e.g., videos, pictures, websites, and artwork) GLE: MU 8:1.A Connections Between Music and Related Arts - Develop and apply knowledge and skills to understand the relationships between music, the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.

Program Length
60 minutes

Dates/Times
10/21/08 10 - 11 AM; 1 - 2 PM Central Daylight Time

Connection Type(s) Available and Program Fees
Interactive Cost: $0.00View Only Cost: $0.00

Premium Service provices additional benefits. Learn more!Receiving Site is responsible for own line charge

Program Fee Notes
There is NO CHARGE for this program.

Cancellation Policy
Please notify us of any need to cancel as soon as you know about it.

Is video taping allowed?
No

The Provider broadcasts over
IPInternet 2

Minimum Technology Specifications for sites connecting to this provider
All connections are made via IP through our bridge organization, MOREnet. Once you have enrolled for the program, we will put you in contact with MOREnet so you can complete a test call prior to the program. The test call must be conducted to ensure your participation in the program.

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Author Barri Bumgarner: Peer Pressure - In & Outside of School

New Links News(NEW DATE) Friday, October 10, 2008: Peer Pressure discussion lead by author Barri Bumgarner
Cost: $175 Times: 8:30 am CDT: High School & 10 am: 7 & 8th grade; each v/c lasts 1 hour

* Join us for an interactive discussion over videoconference on peer pressure— in and outside of school
* We suggest (though it is not required) that students have read part or all of author Barri Bumgarner’s acclaimed book, Dregs- the powerful story of what happens when adolescent emotions boil over into violence.
* Dregs was the recipient of the Walter Williams Major Work Award, runner-up 2008

More about the author: Barri L. Bumgarner is a full-time author, freelancing for Family and School & Community magazines. She her third book is Dregs, a young adult novel about the brutal reality of cliques in schools. Bumgarner’s second novel, Slipping, won Missouri Writers’ Guild Best Fiction runner-up in 2005. Her first novel, 8 Days, is in its second print-run. She received multiple awards from the Missouri Writers Guild for her articles in 2005, and also received Writer’s Digest 72nd Annual Writing Competition honors in 2004 for her article “Inspire Magic.” Ms. Bumgarner divides her time between attending graduate school and writing. She lives in Columbia, Missouri.

Show-Me Standards for this videoconference include: Communication Arts: 5. comprehending and evaluating the content and artistic aspects of oral and visual presentations (such as story-telling, debates, lectures, multi-media productions); 6. participating in formal and informal presentations and discussions of issues and ideas

Rebecca MorrisonCooperating School DistrictsVirtual Learning Center1460 Craig Road St. Louis, MO 63146desk: 314.692.1274 fax: 314.872.9128blog: www.csdtechpd.wordpress.comSAVE THE DATE: METC is January 26-28, 2009