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STV: Water.
Interactive Videodiscs. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1994.
Recommended grade level:
6-8+.
STV: Water is an interactive videodisc program that helps students learn about where freshwater comes from, how it is used, and what must be done to conserve it. The disc includes 28 minutes of video featuring a National Geographic film, Freshwater: Resource at Risk, and more than 100 still photographs. Viewers travel to the Great Lakes, the Ogallala aquifer, the Colorado River watershed, and south Florida to learn about challenges to water supplies.
The HyperCard diskette that accompanies the program provides supporting text drawn from National Geographic publications, a glossary, and a feature that allows users to create customized visual presentations from the materials. Students can use the software, for example, to arrange video segments and photographs from the videodisc and type in their own narration.
The teacher's guide--Water--includes information on key concepts, preview questions that introduce concepts in the video, and bar codes to allow access to the videodisc with a bar-code reader. The teacher's guide also provides directions for several short activities--such as building a model of a wetland or an aquifer, investigating the source of their tap water, or using maps to locate dams on the Colorado River watershed. The videodisc includes a Spanish-language track, and the teacher's guide includes the video script in both English and Spanish.
Prices:
Level I kit (including videodisc), $225. Level III kit (including videodisc and HyperCard diskette), $325.
Publisher/supplier:
National Geographic Society.
Materials:
Available in kit.
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