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Foundations of Science Videos Released

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Over the past few months, the Space Foundation has provided the scripting and talent for video vignettes featured on two Rocky Mountain PBS (RMPBS) educational programs for students - Matchwits and Homework Hotline. The Matchwits segments pose video questions for student competitors and the Homework Hotline pieces explain scientific principles with space examples. Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates and Space Education Specialist Bobby Gagnon (pictured, right, taping a segment that has not yet been released)  wrote and starred in the segments. In addition to being broadcast during children's programming, the segments are posted on the RMPBS and the Space Foundation website (here).

Watch the videos:

Foundations of Science: Density
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates uses balloons to explain density

Foundations of Science: Velocity
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates uses rockets to explain velocity

Foundations of Science: Newton's Third Law of Motion
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates uses rockets to explain Newton's Third Law of Motion: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction

Foundations of Science: Microgravity
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates explains microgravity.

Foundations of Science: GPS
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates explains how the Global Positioning System (GPS) triangulates position.

Foundations of Science: Microgravity and the Human Body
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates talks about how the human body reacts to microgravity.

Foundations of Science: Newton's Laws of Motion
Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates talks about inertia; the relationship between force, mass and acceleration; and actions and reactions.

About Matchwits
Now in its 27th season, Matchwits is a weekly high school academic quiz program produced by Rocky Mountain PBS station KTSC-TV in Pueblo, Colo. It is a single-elimination tournament involving public and private high schools from southern and southeastern Colorado. The on-air tournament is made up of five rounds of competition including the championship game. The game is made up of three rounds including toss-up questions allowing individual players to answer for their school and speed round questions where each school works as a team to answer as many questions as possible in a short period of time. As the rounds progress, the difficulty of the questions increases. Questions include, but are not limited to, English, history, geography, science, current events and math.

About Homework Hotline
Homework Hotline is a call-in program on KTSC Channel 8 in Pueblo, which airs live each weekday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. during the school year. Designed to help students with their math and science homework, the program is hosted by two Pueblo School District 60 teachers.

About Rocky Mountain PBS
Rocky Mountain PBS is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member non-commercial educational public television station in Colorado. Headquartered in downtown Denver, the station reaches one million viewers in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico each week with provocative and inspiring local, national and international programming.

Founded in 1956 as Colorado's first public television station, Rocky Mountain PBS is now Colorado's only statewide television network, with stations in Denver (KRMA), Pueblo/Colorado Springs (KTSC), Steamboat Springs (KRMZ), Grand Junction (KRMJ) and Durango (KRMU). RMPBS is also a Space Foundation Certified Educational Product.

This article is part of Space Watch: March 2012 (Volume: 11, Issue: 3).


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