Show #6
Initial Air Dates:
Monday, November 20 at 6:30 pm
Saturday, November 25 at 9 am

Poetry Festival – Nearly 20,000 people attend the 11th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival this year at Waterloo Village in Stanhope. Many of the attendees are New Jersey teachers and students. The festival takes place among the restored 19th-century canal-lock and riverside village.

Floating Classroom – Students from Explore 2000 Middle School in North Bergen catch, identify, tag and release various marine species in the Hackensack and Hudson River watersheds. The fish tagging program called Hooked on Knowledge has been incorporated into the school curriculum. The information is recorded by the children then sent to the American Littoral Society in Sandy Hook, and finally, forwarded to the Woods Hole Oceanic Research Center in Mass. Explore 2000 is part of the Hudson County Schools of Technology.

Project EGG – Everything Grows through Growing is a multi-curriculum project designed by teachers at Old Farmers Road Elementary School in Washington Township. The project will expand learning beyond the classroom and into a working farm environment. Children learn how language, math, and science are used on a farm. This program is funded through the NJEA Frederick L. Hipp Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Physics Institute – Borislaw Bilash II, a teacher from Pascack Valley Regional High School, will be presenting at the Liberty Science Center’s Summer Physics Teachers Institute. His program will consist of Essential Demonstrations, Physics on the Cheap, and Make and Take, which gives participants materials they can take back into the classroom.