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Title of Planned Core Program #1
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Origin
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PREHISTORIC PLANET
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 9:00-9:30am
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6
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Prehistoric Planet is based on the award winning BBC/Discovery series "Walking with Dinosaurs". It begins over 200 million years ago with the Triassac Period. Over several weeks, the audience travels trough time to the Jurassic, Early Cretaceous and Mid-Cretaceous Periods, which ended 65 million years ago. The dawn of the mamals is then covered, with the series ending just a few million years ago. The dawn of mamals is then covered, with the series ending just a few million years ago. The objectives of this show are to: 1) expose the audience to a re-creation of the prehistoric world and explain how the animal kingdom might have lived day by day, 2) expose learners to content that will enable them to differentiate and match species to ereas, to habitat, and to their respective behavior patterns, 3) expose the audience to information on how and why certain prehistoric beasts were the precursors of species alive today, 4) expose the audience to basic concepts of the life cycle, the food chain, and the process of species survival vs extinction, 5) expose the audience to content on the development of the Earth's geography and the relationship of weather, geography, and natural events to the development of different animal species.
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Title of Planned Core Program #2
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Origin
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ADVENTURE CAMP
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 9:00-9:30am
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7
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Adventure Camp takes eight kids to a wild animal complex in Florida where they get to combine competition, relationship-building, and science into a program of learning and fun. In each episode, the kids are given exposure to lots of new information about animals, ecology and the environment. IF they demonstrate their knowledge and fulfill certain responsibilities in caring for an animal, the campers earn beads for an opportunity to have different adventures with the animals (e.g., releasing an injured manatee into the wild or swimming with dolphins). Over several weeks, the group gains lots of important knowledge about animal habitats, different animal behaviors, animal care, and ecological balance. They also increase their self-knowledge, while forming close friendships and teams with kids they had not known before.
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Title of Planned Core Program #3
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Origin
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CROC FILES
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 9:30-10:00am
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Croc Files takes the audience on world-wide travels with naturalist, adventurer and story-teller Steve Irwin of the Australian Zoo. In humorous and adventuresome episodes, Steve with his wife Terri and a small crew, travel to different locales to film a wide variety of animal species. The objectives of this show are: 1) expose the audience to the habitat, behavior patterns, and in most cases, the dangers of most types of non-domesticated animals, 2) demonstrate to the audience how to be safe around wild animals, particularly dangerous preditors and poisonous snakes, 3) inform the audience about the life cycle, eating habits and social behavior of different animals, 4) inform the audience about conservation issues and the relationships and importance of different animals to specific ecosystems.
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Title of Planned Core Program #4
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Origin
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OPERATION JUNKYARD
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 10:00-10:30am
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6
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Operation Junkyard is a reality show that creates teams of kids who are interested in building and inventing, and puts the team in competitive engineering challenges. The over-arching goal of the program is to show how the basic principles of engineering are accessible to anyone who wants to know "how thinks work". Specific objectives are to communicate to the audience how teams can work successfully under pressure to create working machines and to demonstrate the use of recyclable objects to create something completely different from the object's original purpose. In each episode, two groups of four kids form teams that actually work under defined time pressures and information limitations. They have to create, from the junk on an "operation junkyard" bus, working machines that spray water, float on water, catapult balls, scoop mud, lift objects or even fill pies. The engineering is diagrammed for the audience to track each team's progress, and the underlying concepts of the project are explained in everyday terms. After each machine is built, a rousing and sometimes hilarious competition is held to see which contraption succeeds in fulfilling its purpose.
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Title of Planned Core Program #5
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Origin
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TRADING SPACES: BOYS VS GIRLS
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 10:00-10:30am
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7
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Boys and girls get to show how well they know each other, how effectively they can manage a budget, and how skillfully they can execute a design plan in Trading Spaces: Boys vs Girls. Each week a boy or girl will be given two days and $5,000 dollars to complete a renovation of their partner's "room". The space might be a bedroom, a recreation room, or a club house, but the "designer" has to show his or her knowledge of the other person's preferences, hobbies, and lifestyle to come up with a good design. Then, the challenge of balancing the budget and figuring out the renovation process begins. Participants will learn measurement, spatial reasoning, and principles of aesthetic design as they go through the experience. In the end, they will find out if their knowledge and perception of their partner was on or off the base.
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Title of Planned Core Program #6
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Origin
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ENDURANCE
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 10:30-11:00am
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Endurance is an engrossing program that shows the target audience, with typical kids ages 12-16, succeeding at several different physical, intellectual, and strategic challenges in order to win a fabulous travel prize. The audience will be exposed to historial information about great feats of endurance, from Houdini's escape artisty to Sir Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everst. Each of the 12 competitive challenges is a metaphor for one of these feats of endurance. In addition, ther eare strategic probabilities and beat the odds. Overall, the competition balances luck of fate against personal effort so that the contestants learn to balance intellect with intuition in developing their winning strategy. Narration and interviews during each episode trace the growth and insights of the contestants, with an emphasis on how the experience of protracted competition and teamwork teaches both social skills and life skills for achieving success with the goals.
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Title of Planned Core Program #7
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Origin
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STRANGE DAYS AT BLAKE HOLSEY HIGH
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 11:00-11:30am
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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To
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Strange Days at Blake Holsey High focuses on a group of five young teens who are students at a very unusual boarding school. Strange phenomena happens at the school, and our kids are members of a science club that decides, with the help of their professor, to figure it all out. The initator of many of their investigative processes is the newest student of the school, Josie Trent. In exploring the larger mystery of why the phenomena occur, our kids also deal with issues relating to their socio-emotional development messages. The educational goal of the program is to embed scientific content in a narrative story with strong socio-emotional messages. In each episode, one of the main characters models a learning process that relates to their social competence. Each episode also explores science content that relates to resolving an immediate problem or some aspect of the larger mystery. Specific objectives are to expose the audience to content that the physical sciences, such as black hoes, worm holes, vortexes, gravity, electricity, satellite transmissions and radio frequences. Through the characters experiments, the audience is exposed to the scientific method, hypothsis testing analysis of data. Other objectives are to model the development of the group cohesion, teamwork, social competence with the group and between the group and other significant people in their lives.
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Title of Planned Core Program #8
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Origin
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SCOUT'S SAFARI
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NETWORK
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Regular Schedule
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Total Times to be Aired
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SA 11:30am-12:00nn
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13
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Length of Program
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Age of Target Audience
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30 minutes
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From
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9 years
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14 years
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming
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Scout's Safari follows the development of 14-year-old Scout Lauer, whose divorced parents have to quickly move Scout from her father's home in New York City to her mother's home on a game reserve in South Africa. The over-arching goal of the series is for our main character, Scout, to model a learning process for the audience that charts her socio-emotional growth as she adjusts to a completely new life in South Africa. By the end of each episode, Scout will have moved from one level of knowledge to a higher level of knowledge or insight. Specific objectives are to show how Scout makes a good transition into her blended family with a stepfather and new brother, makes new friends in a completely different system, understands different religious and cultural belief systems, and defines a place for herself where she feels secure and confident about her future. As the first children's show actually filmed on location in an African animal reserve, "Scout's Safari" will expose the audience to factually accurate account about threats to the natual environment and preserving animal species in their natual habitats.
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