HEC-TV Live! - Explore

How do businesses get started? Where do the ideas for new products and services come from and how do entrepreneurs take their idea and make it a business reality? How do those new businesses affect our country’s economy? Want to find out? Then view this archived program to explore those economic questions and more with our friends at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and local entrepreneurs. To obtain more details about the program including related curriculum standards, program objectives and agenda, pre and post program learning activities, and additional video and web resources related to the program, click on Educational Material.

Maps are amazing sources of information that help us better understand all sorts of fascinating aspects of our world. For this episode of Explore! we investigate maps and map making and ask the big picture question, “How can maps help us solve problems?” To obtain more details about the program including related curriculum standards, program objectives and agenda, pre and post program learning activities, and additional video and web resources related to the program, click on Educational Material.

A bicycle can pedal 25 miles per hour, cars zoom by at 55 miles per hour, a cheetah can exceed speeds of 75 miles per hour. Ever wonder what makes different things go different speeds? Want to find out? Then view this program and Explore! To find a more detailed program description, program objectives, related national curriculum standards, post-program learning activities, and a time-coded agenda for the archived program, click on the Educational Materials tab. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six.

Learning about fossils begins with discovery and continues with meticulous investigation until the conditions are just right to safely remove the specimen from its natural environment. Then the real exploration begins. . . in the laboratory. Where can fossils be found? How can they be successfully extracted? What do they tell us about life on our planet before our time? Want to find out? Then view this program archive. To find a more detailed program description, program objectives, related national curriculum standards, 90-post program learning activities, and a time-coded program agenda, click on the Program Materials link on the right side of this page. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six.

Have you ever thought how cool it would be if you could fly? Wondered what keeps birds, planes and bumblebees up in the air? Been intrigued by piloting acrobatic planes or a supersonic jet? Want to find out? Then view this program to explore flying. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six. NOTE: At 16:11 minutes into the program, Mr. Meshach of the Wild Bird Sanctuary misspoke. This is the correct information he provided to us: "Birds have posterior and anterior air sacs. The posterior sacs are toward the tail, and these air sacs take in the first inhale." During the live program, he said the anterior sacs take in the first inhale.

For this episode of Explore! we focus on two specific parts of the human body, our eyes and ears, and ask the big picture question, “How can we better understand our senses of sight and hearing and the impact they make on our lives?” Learn fascinating facts about your eyes and ears. Experience what it’s like to explore the world with different levels of sight and hearing. To find a more detailed program description, program objectives, a time-coded program agenda, related national curriculum standards, pre-viewing learning activities, and post-viewing learning activities, click on the Program Materials link on the right side of this page. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six.

For this episode of Explore! we focus on two specific parts of the human body, our eyes and ears, and ask the big picture question, “How can we better understand our senses of sight and hearing and the impact they make on our lives?” Learn fascinating facts about your eyes and ears. Experience what it’s like to explore the world with different levels of sight and hearing. To find a more detailed program description, program objectives, a time-coded program agenda, related national curriculum standards, pre-viewing learning activities, and post-viewing learning activities, click on the Program Materials link on the right side of this page. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six.

What is it like to live life as a dog? How can we better understand our own senses by comparing them to those of our four legged friends? Investigate these questions and more as you meet a dog named Radar, interact with a veterinarian, and explore the world as a dog experiences it. To find a more detailed program description, program objectives, a time-coded program agenda, related national curriculum standards, pre-viewing learning activities, and post-viewing learning activities, click on the Program Materials link on the right side of this page. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six.

What is it like to live life as a dog? How can we better understand our own senses by comparing them to those of our four legged friends? Investigate these questions and more as you meet a dog named Radar, interact with a veterinarian, and explore the world as a dog experiences it. To find a more detailed program description, program objectives, a time-coded program agenda, related national curriculum standards, pre-viewing learning activities, and post-viewing learning activities, click on the Program Materials link on the right side of this page. This program is targeted to students in grades three through six.

How can I better understand the food I eat? To find out, view this archived program and meet a health coach and a fruit and vegetable farmer, explore a small farm, shop at a farmer’s market, learn about organic farming practices, and discover what it’s like to be an urban chicken farmer

Why explore? Students will get a chance to answer that question for themselves and listen to the answers of others as they meet a mountain climber, go back in time to the world of Daniel Boone, and discover cool places in an exploration scavenger hunt.