Faced with students home, sick, in bed, flipping through the channels watching mindless and sometimes questionable daytime television?
The National Geographic Channel is offering an alternative.
Starting Nov. 16, and running for the six weeks thereafter — the period that health officials believe will be the peak flu season — the channel will partner with National Geographic School Publishing to provide educational television from 10 a.m. to noon each day, accompanying web content and some programs that will be available on the web any time of day.
All of the programming will be G-rated and culled from the National Geographic network’s award-winning specials and ongoing series, including Explorer, Naked Science and Wild Spaces. The programs will apply to science, social studies and other disciplines. The web content will be organized by grade level — elementary, middle school and high school.
The purpose of the never-before-done project is to provide students who have to be out of school for health reasons a chance to engage in learning despite being absent from class.
“This effort underscores the commitment of National Geographic to partner with educators and parents, and is totally consistent with our mission of inspiring people to care about the planet,” said John Fahey, president and CEO of National Geographic.
Check your local listings to find out where the National Geographic channel is on the dial in your area.
Illinois Education Association is an association of more than 130,000 members composed of Illinois elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty and staff, educational support professionals, retired educators and college students preparing to become teachers.
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