Grades 5-12: Program Flyer: Bridge Construction 1: Superstructure **FREE**

Program Flyer: Bridge Construction 1: Superstructure
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RoundTrips

Tim Gore
roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us
School District of Clayton
#2 Mark Twain Circle
Clayton, MO 63105
United States
Phone: (314) 773-6934

Program Series
This program is the sixth of a ten part series of programs dealing with the Missouri Department of Transportation building a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Schools may sign up for one program or any combination thereof.

More information about the entire series of programs, including archived versions of previous programs in the series can be found at: http://mobridge.more.net.

Education: Grade(s): 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

The bridge has been designed, public hearings have been held, and funding has been arranged. Now the construction begins in earnest. Join us live from the construction site of the new bridge going over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Interact with construction personnel as they share how they are bringing the design plans to life. How is the superstructure for the bridge connected to the bridge piers? What kind of materials are used? How is the structure welded together? How are the supports put in place for the road surface to come? What items are pre-fabricated and what is created on site? How does the installation occur? What are the careers involved in building a bridge? For the answers to these and other questions, join us for our sixth program in our continuing series of programs produced with the Missouri Department of Transportation as they build a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri.

50 minutes

Program Date Program Time
All times below are displayed in Eastern Daylight Time, as specified in your profile.
4/3/2009 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
4/3/2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Interactive Cost: $0.00
View Only Cost: $0.00
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Grades 2-12: FREE Programs from HEC-TV

Program Flyer: The Black Rep Presents: Porch Lies
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HEC-TV 2007-08 Honorable Mention

Helen Headrick
utilization@hectv.org
8390 Delmar Blvd
Suite 211
St Louis, MO 63124
United States
Phone: (314) 432-3476

Education: Grade(s): 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Join us live from the rehearsal space of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company to enjoy excerpts from their touring performance of Porch Lies, adapted by Linda Kennedy from Patricia McKissick’s endearing book. Meet the actors and director who bring the story to life. View a performance of scenes from the show. Ask your questions of what it means to “act a part.” How do the actors prepare? How do they create a character? What does the director do? What’s it like to stage a touring production in a variety of different places? Participants will meet actors, director, and designers to discuss how the show came to life from the first phase of design to the final phase of implementation. Ask your questions of actors, directors and designers who are part of America’s largest professional African-American theatre company.

About the Play

Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this sequel to a Newberry Honor-winning anthology is filled with bad characters who know how to charm. It takes us back to McKissick’s own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch. . . to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows. . . to the ten entertaining tales. In “The Best Lie Ever Told,” meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar’s Contest. In “Aunt Gran and the Outlaws,” watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in “Cake Norris Lives On,” meet a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!
60 minutes
Program Date Program Time Network Time Registration Deadline
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4/14/2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4/14/2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Program Flyer: The Black Rep Presents: The Strong Men
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Education: Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Join us live from the rehearsal space of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company to enjoy excerpts from their touring performance of The Strong Men, a choreo-poem adapted by Ron Himes from Sterling A. Brown’s poem and other poems by African-American authors. Meet the actors and director who bring the story to life. View a performance of scenes from the show. Ask your questions of what it means to “act a part.” How do the actors prepare? How do they create a character? What does the director do? What’s it like to stage a touring production in a variety of different places? Participants will meet actors, director, and designers to discuss how the show came to life from the first phase of design to the final phase of implementation. Ask your questions of actors, directors and designers who are part of America’s largest professional African-American theatre company.

About the Production

This choreo-poem displays the powerful voices and delicate humor of African-Americans who have made major contributions to American history. The Black Rep brings to vivid life some of the verses, which show how poetry can be spoken, sung and danced, and how poetry can be a window to the self and to our world. Selected poems include “The Creation,” “We Wear the Mask,” “Dedication to Fathers,” “A Cry from a Black Man,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Strong Men.”
60 minutes
Program Date Program Time Network Time Registration Deadline
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4/21/2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4/21/2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Grades 7-12: Crime Scene Analysis

Program Flyer: Crime Scene Analysis with Author Barri Bumgarner
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Cooperating School Districts New Links to New Learning

Rebecca Morrison
rmorrison@csd.org
Cooperating School Districts
1460 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146
United States
Phone: (314) 692-1274
Fax: (314) 872-9128
Education: Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Author Barri Bumgarner inspires young writers to create stories brought about from forensic investigations. By opening the door to the imagination, Bumgarner offers a setting that allows students to play forensic detective and then solve the crime!
Students will view a brief excerpt from an episode of CSI. After viewing the initial crime scene footage, each writer will be introduced to the various suspects and other people associated with both the victim and the suspects.

Upon hearing and seeing this information, students will choose which 3 people they will “interview” (they will pull those people’s “jackets” and read about their specific details). Once they conducted each of their interviews, students will write their version of what happened.
60 minutes
Program Date Program Time Network Time Registration Deadline
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5/1/2009 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
5/1/2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

There are two sessions available: 8:30 a.m. for 9-12th graders and 10 a.m. CDT for 7-8th graders (each session lasts about 1 hour).

Interactive Cost: $175.00

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New Links to New Learning members get this videoconference for $125.
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Grades 7-12: China: Windows on the World

"CHINA" in the Windows on the World series WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2009
from Vanderbilt Virtual School

Please see the complete schedule of all videoconference series plus complete lesson plans for each topic on the Virtual School website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/


WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2009- “Windows on the World : "CHINA”

REGISTER: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm

Grades 7-12: Talk About a Dirty Job!

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) presents
Talk about a Dirty Job: Be a Research Scientist! Friday, April 24th 1:30 - 2:10 PM CST

FREE

All sites will be view only!

Come face to face with Dr. John Janovec, botanist, teacher, and co-director of the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program, an in-depth research program currently being conducted in southeastern Peru. Dr. Janovec will share his mission and the purpose of this program along with anecdotes from the field that share the “dirt” from this dirty job. From hunting and collecting elegant and beautiful orchids to dissecting tapir poop, Dr. Janovec’s team contributes invaluable support to the efforts of conserving one of our planet’s most pristine and diverse ecosystems, the Amazon rainforest. This is a free view only event. However, if you send student questions at least one week ahead of time, Dr. Janovec can address as many questions as time allows.
Email your students questions to Pam Chamberlain (pchamberlain@brit.org ) .

Interactive FollowupTalk About a Dirty Job: Be a Research Scientist! Friday, April 24th2:20 - 3:00 PM CST

$60.00 per site

**You must register for BOTH sessions to participate in the followup**

For this session you will stay connected for an additional 40 minutes with Dr. Janovec to talk with him live about the first session from 1:30-2:10 PM CST and ask questions about his in-depth research program currently being conducted in southeastern Peru. This also will include a teacher packet to extend the videoconference experience.
Click here to register for view only session
Click here to register for the interactive followup session

To register go to http://www.connect2texas.net/ .

Grades K-12: April Programs from the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum

Fact or Fiction in History
Spend April Fool’s Day deciding what is Fact or Fiction. Many stories of the past are handed down from generation to generation. Learn some little known facts that helped keep the Western lifestyle alive.

Date: April 1, 2009
Grades 6-12
Cost: $100
Registration Deadline: 3/25/09

The Arts
Many women of the West shared their experience and knowledge in pictures and art. Discover the world of these women as they see it, through photography, pottery and paintings.
Date: April 9, 2009
Grades K-12, Adult
Cost: $100
Registration Deadline – April 3

How to Measure a Horse
What does a horse's height have to do with hands? During this program students will learn how to measure a horse using tools that horsemen and women use. Then they will learn how to convert their measurement into "hands." At the end of the program, students will use "hands" as a form of measurement.
Date: April 15, 2009
Grades 3-5
Cost: $100
Registration Deadline – April 10

Community Planners
Join us in learning about how the contributions of Clara Brown, Henrietta King and others helped shape the West.
Date: April 21, 2009
Grades K - 4th grades
Cost: $100
Registration Deadline – April 15

A Walk Through Time - A Walking Tour of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
Discover fascinating information about the National Cowgirl Museum to use in your classroom as a learning tool.
Date: April 23, 2009
Grades K-12, Adult
Cost: $100
Registration Deadline – April 18

Life on the Prairie with Sarah Plain and Tall
Join us in learning about how the contributions of Clara Brown, Henrietta King and others helped shape the West.
Date: April 27, 2009
Grade 1-7, Adults
Cost: $100
Registration Deadline – April 22

REMEMBER: The programs listed are only the "scheduled" sessions already on the Connect2Texas calendar. Keep in mind other programs are available and can be scheduled on a "as needed" basis.

If you see a program listed that you would like to find out more information about or register go to www.Connect2Texas.net and click on the "Calendar of Programs and Register" button.

Questions?
Contact Cindi Collins at 817-509-8697 or ccollins@cowgirl.net

Grades 9-12: Nanotechnology: What Is It & What Does it Mean for US? **FREE**

Join The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History's annual nationwide celebration of nanotechnology education and outreach.
Nanotechnology…what is it and what does it mean for us?

Friday April 3rd 1:30 - 2:00 PM CST
Grades 9th - 12th

The first 4 sites to register will be interactive sites which can send questions. All other sites will be view only.

Click here to register now!
Deadline for registration: Friday, March 27

We invite you to join Dr. Aaron Pan, the Museum’s Science Curator and other classrooms across the state to learn more about this growing field in science. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter-almost too small to fully comprehend-and objects on this scale are being considered in the medical, technology and consumer markets. You'll learn more about these amazing advances and students in the first 4 classes to register will be able to send specific questions to Dr. Pan to answer during the program.

To register go to http://www.connect2texas.net/ .

Laurie Hogle lhogle@esc11.net or Lori Hamm lhamm@esc11.net . Connect2Texas is a service offered by Education Service Center Region XI
3001 North Freeway
Fort Worth, TX 76106
(817) 740-3625