Indiana Expeditions
with Rick Crosslin Season 2: Fridays, February 6-27, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Don your adventurer's boots once again as award-winning science teacher Rick
Crosslin whisks you off to experience science in ways you never imagined. The
man who went from the Diet-Coke suit to coal mines in the first Indiana Expeditions
series has a new lineup of fascinating ways to bring the fun of science home to kids
and adults alike. See how the grossest insects are cool, what ties music and water
together and why, even in the 1600's, Sir Isaac Newton must have been a huge
sports fan!
Rick Crosslin is on leave from the Metropolitan
School District of Wayne Township in Indianapolis,
serving as school liaison for science learning
at the world renowned Children’s
Museum of Indianapolis. After earning an Emmy award for his production “Tale
of a Bone," created with WFYI, Crosslin and WFYI join forces once
again to bring Indiana Expeditions to Public Television. “Science
is for everybody and demands that we get involved," says Crosslin. “Indiana
Expeditions is about science that is accessible
for all of us to try ourselves."
In addition to the multi-part, multi-adventure
series, Crosslin and the Indiana Expeditions
team have created a companion DVD designed to
help teachers’ grades
3-8 take their students even deeper into the fascinating world of
science.
Rick follows real dinosaur bones from a dig site in South Dakota as they come out of the earth and ultimately make their way to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Other adventures delve below the earth's surface into Indiana caves and a real coal mine.
A nighttime crawdad hunt highlights the amazing array of creatures found in Indiana's natural waterways. But the fun doesn’t stop there as viewers see how to build their own water habitat, plus learn ways of conserving this precious natural resource. Water, the currency of life.
Bring out the amazing Diet Coke suit! What can the soft drink show us about our physical world? You have to see this to believe it! Viewers will watch the real process of creating steel – a solid, then a liquid, then a solid again. And what happens when a hospital lets Rick in to investigate its Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine? Density, Magnetism and Science Methods all designed for viewers to "try it yourself!"
Indiana is home to some very creepy, and sometimes very dangerous, creatures. You may not see them, but our state harbors poisonous snakes and other critters with a bite that can do some serious damage. Host Rick Crosslin explains why even the lowly mosquito can have a large impact on life. Best of all, you'll learn how science teaches us to live in harmony and safety with the creepy-crawlies. Imagine a critter that can grow back an arm! Many of these strange animals have great benefits for people.
Dig down deep enough in Indiana and you'll find the elements that make our world rock-solid, from simple gypsum to the sedimentary rocks that makes the Hoosier state famous around the world. Where does it all come from, what is the force behind it all, and just as importantly, where does it all go? Science teacher and host Rick Crosslin takes you around the state to show you how Indiana has been sculpted by natural forces over thousands of years. No matter how you cut it, Indiana rocks!
Do you like making music or making noise – or both? Host Rick Crosslin takes a trip into the amazing world of sound, the energy that helps us communicate, keeps us entertained and even provides life-saving warnings. But have you ever seen sound? How can you hear under water? And if you put your ear to the ground, will you get more than earful of dirt? No matter how you hear it, after these exciting experiments, you'll never look at sound the same way again!
So which came first, the chicken or the egg? Award-winning science teacher and host Rick Crosslin shows you how life, whether it's plants or creatures, is really one endless, fascinating circle! Imagine a seed that grows so fast, it's a full plant in just over a week – and dead less than a month later, right here in Indiana. From insects to people, from seeds to DNA – learn how we are part of the cycles that keep turning 'round and 'round in the world around us.
Indiana experiences some of the most brutal weather found anywhere in the United States, and then, it really gets weird! Host Rick Crosslin introduces you to people who LIVE for weather and finds out what's really the most dangerous to Hoosiers. Is it tornadoes, floods, maybe blizzards? The answer will surprise you. And what's with those crazy people who actually chase (and catch) potentially deadly storms? Learn why the bizarre weather patterns Indiana's experienced in recent years may be a true sign of the times.
Once upon a time an apple fell from Sir Isaac Newton's tree, and ever since we've heard about Newton's Laws. But did you know that if you just look, you can see Newton's Laws in action everywhere around you? Science teacher and host Rick Crosslin goes to bat to show how the laws of motion are the foundation of your favorite sports and what kind of cool stuff happens when you drop things from tall buildings. You'll be amazed at the science in motion, right before your eyes.
Indiana Expeditions is made possible with the generous support of the Dr. Laura Hare Charitable Trust, Center for Earth and Environmental Science, IUPUI, The Center for School Improvement and Performance – Indiana Department of Education and Veolia Water Indianapolis, Indianapolis Water.
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Don your adventurer's boots once again as award-winning science teacher Rick
Crosslin whisks you off to experience science in ways you never imagined. The
man who went from the Diet-Coke suit to coal mines in the first Indiana Expeditions
series has a new lineup of fascinating ways to bring the fun of science home to kids
and adults alike. See how the grossest insects are cool, what ties music and water
together and why, even in the 1600's, Sir Isaac Newton must have been a huge
sports fan!
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