Word: chen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite some pre-meet doubts, the score was never even close. In fact, after, the team of Janie Smith, Karen Chen Barton and Terri Frick copped a victory in the 200-yd. medley relay with a 1:56.42 to give the team a 7-0 lead, the Crimson never led by less than eight points, and at one point, the squad was ahead...
...Crimson's Chen bolstered the team's sagging lead with a 33.4 second victory in the 50-yd. breaststroke, and Barton followed that triumph with a 59.8 win in the 100-yd. butterfly...
...million, using grants from the U.S. Office of Education and National Science Foundation, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the United Technologies Corp. The sponsors hope that the show can help close a gap in science education in the early grades. Says CTW Research Director Milton Chen: "In surveys of science achievement, you see a pattern of declining interest in science around junior high. We're trying to intervene earlier to try to encourage kids to stay tuned in to science." Another goal: stimulating interest in scientific careers among minorities, who now make up only...
...each week of the 13-week series, the shows stick to a general theme, such as hot and cold, near and far, big and little. "These are dimensions that eight-to twelve-year-olds use themselves in organizing their own experience," says Chen. For example, to demonstrate that sound consists of vibrations, Marc and Lisa play with a toy telephone made by stretching a string between two tin cans. Then the scene shifts to two cartoon characters who joke about dialing wrong numbers. To introduce gravity, 3-2-1 Contact skips the traditional account of Sir Isaac Newton...
...gyroscope, but fails to explain what a gyroscope is, or how it works. The show rushes on to a glider sailing through the Colorado skies. It is all pleasant viewing, but does it really teach science? Probably not, in any systematic sense, as CTW admits. Says Research Director Chen: "This is a show focused on attitudes, on encouraging positive feelings toward science." Adds Joan Duea, past president of the Council for Elementary Science International: "The show doesn't replace teaching. The teacher still...