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<p>What could you possibly have in common with a mushroom, or a dinosaur, or even a bacterium? More than you might think.</p>

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<p>NOVA&#x27;s <i>Hunting the Elements</i> media resources allow educators to explore the periodic table in detail with their students—from its basic structure and properties to the sometimes volatile behavior of specific elements.</p>

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<p>Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and <i>What the Physics!?</i> to introduce quantum concepts to your classroom.</p>

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      <div class="rich-text"><p>“I want to become a doctor when I grow up,” stated Razan Mohammed, a rising high school sophomore from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. “I don’t know what kind of doctor. My little brother was almost diagnosed with autism and I wanted to talk about the brain, so I was interested in that [for my project]. I might become an autism doctor in the future.” Like Razan, many of the students in the inaugural cohort of the NOVA Science Studio chose to explore topics that reflected their personal lives and curiosity about issues in their communities. The pilot of the new program, which concluded in June 2019 and was funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, featured an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on science communication, digital media literacy, and video production. With a goal to empower youth to tell stories about the world in new ways, the NOVA Science Studio was able to give students exposure to a wide range of careers in STEM, journalism, and media production.</p></div>
  

  
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      <div class="rich-text"><p>The NOVA Science Studio marks NOVA’s first foray into youth programming and our first attempt to create educational resources to teach science communication to teens. To do this, NOVA Science Studio tapped in-house talent working across several teams at NOVA including the editorial, broadcast, and digital teams to work with students and support them as they explored best practices for science storytelling over the course of 6 months. With students varying in age and skill set, it was no easy feat to address the needs of nearly thirty students across three pilot sites in Greater Boston, but according to NOVA Digital Producer Emily Zendt, “It was amazing to witness the tenacity these young talents brought to the big questions they tackled. It gives me so much hope for the future of the field to watch them tell these important stories.”</p></div>
  

  
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      <div class="rich-text"><p>These stories were so important because they explored topics at the intersection of science and social issues. For example, several students investigated whether or not exposure to trauma as a child predisposes people to crime, as well as the impact of medical racism on Black mothers’ mortality rates. Another topic that interested many students was artificial intelligence and its growing presence in everyday life. High school seniors Kendrick Echeverri and DuWayne Gary, the latter of whom will start a degree in mechanical engineering this fall, focused on AI and the future of the workforce. They wanted to educate themselves and their peers about the reality of the job prospects that await them in the next few years as the use of AI in the workforce increases. Inspired by the young climate change activist Greta Thunberg, eighth graders Shianne Henry and Derian Peña interviewed professors from Harvard for their project about the role that teens can play in mitigating climate change.</p><p></p>
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            <p>On June 20th, the pilot of the NOVA Science Studio culminated with a showcase event celebrating the hard work of all the participants. In attendance were members from across the WGBH Educational Foundation including NOVA Co-Executive Producers Julia Cort and Chris Schmidt, VP Of National Programming John Bredar, and most importantly the families and friends of the students. Guests were treated to a gallery walk featuring the research articles penned by students in the cohort, a sight which made NOVA Digital Editor Katherine J. Wu especially proud as she reflected on workshopping topics with students stating “All of them were able to refine their musings about the world around them into researchable questions—many of which blended science and social justice. Seeing that transformation over just a few short months was pretty incredible, and it was wonderful to see the students come away with something tangible and scientific that they’d produced all on their own,” said Wu. “And it was fun.”</p><p>After screening a highlight reel of the student produced videos, a small panel of students and the adults who worked at the NOVA Science Studio sites shared their experiences and insights from the pilot, noting that the synthesis of science and media set the program apart from others. “Having the opportunity to work with and learn from professional practitioners of science journalism was extremely valuable,” remarked Andrew Chi Keong Yim, Program Assistant at 826 Boston, one of the three pilot sites. “The times when NOVA/WGBH staff were able to come in to sessions, or when students were able to go to WGBH for a workshop, were the most effective.&quot;</p><p></p>
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<p>With a goal to empower youth to tell stories about the world in new ways, NOVA Science Studio was able to give students exposure to a wide range of careers in STEM, journalism, and media production.</p>

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      <div class="rich-text"><p>Imagine you have a pair of quantum dice. You put the dice in your cup, throw them, and they are both a “six.” You do it again, and they’re both a “three.” You do it again, and they’re both a “one.” No matter how many times you throw the dice, they are always the same number. This is a seemingly random process, but quantum entanglement ensures that these dice will always act in unison.</p><p>The thought of tackling quantum entanglement in your classroom can be intimidating. Even Albert Einstein was skeptical of the concept, calling it “spooky action at a distance,” and didn’t think it was possible. If this was a tough sell for Einstein, how can you teach this idea to middle and high school students?</p><p></p></div>
  

  
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      <div class="rich-text"><p>Quantum physics are the laws that govern subatomic particles. It can help explain the movements, interactions, and behaviors of very small things like photons and electrons. How small are particles in the subatomic world? Imagine something a million times smaller than the width of a human hair, or making a soccer ball into the size of the Earth and moving inside. This is how we can understand the scale of the world of atoms and subatomic particles.</p><p>Quantum physics is rooted in probability. An electron doesn’t have a specific location in space until it is looked for or detected. When we picture an atom, we often imagine its electrons orbiting the atom’s nucleus in clear defined paths. However, electrons are not the ever-present tiny spheres we imagine them to be. They are really a “fuzzy wave of probability,” ready to be in an infinite amount of locations around the nucleus of an atom until we look at it. The simple act of observing an electron changes the electron’s location.</p></div>
  

  
      <div class="rich-text"><p>Quantum entanglement takes this idea one step further, and is a phenomenon where two particles act in unison, no matter the distances between them. Unlike a row of dominoes that rely on the actions of each previous domino to be knocked down over time, entangled particles change instantly once one is detected, no matter how far apart they may be. For example, if a particle on Earth is entangled with a particle in the Andromeda galaxy, they will change at the exact same time once a change is made to one of the particles.</p><p></p><p>While quantum physics pertains to the smallest units in the universe, the ways in which it impacts our daily lives are immense. Quantum theory played a role in the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb and in the development of lasers and transistors. Our increasingly digital world relies on quantum entanglement to send encrypted messages and quantum computers with massive processing power to solve problems a normal computer could never accomplish.</p><p>Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and <i>What the Physics!?</i> to introduce quantum concepts to your students.</p></div>
  

  
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