SIMPLE SCRIPT / OUTLINE:    

Animal Tracks and Signs

BROADCAST DATE  01/22/02

     CHYRON and SCRIPT

  KEYS (CHYRONS) APPEAR IN BLUE

Set 1:  Mary Ann, Mike and Liz

Segment 1:  Engineering Test

Segment 2:  Opening NC DLS video

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NC DLS video

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Segment 3:  Program Intro with Mary Ann  

Mary Ann introduces program, Mike and Liz, and goals.

 

 

 

Liz:  School Room Mystery

Liz will show shoe print, bitten apple, playing card and match book.

Liz closes with:  "We are going to show you some of the many clues that can be found in the natural world and what you can learn from them."

Mary Ann intros:  The Nature Scene Investigation Team

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Team will use visualizer.

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Mike:  Insect signs [will show several examples, most with visualizer]

Liz:  Goldenrod Ball Gall [will cut open, look for grub, show other galls]

Mary Ann:  Twig Girdlers

Mike:  Mud Daubers

Liz: Cicadas

Mary Ann:  Hornets

Mike: Bagworms

Mary Ann intros:  Mammal signs

Mary Ann:    Gray squirrel chewed pine cones -- pine seeds

                   Gray squirrel chewed hickory nuts (skull?)

                   Mouse chewed hickory nuts (skull?)

                   Flying squirrel chewed hickory nuts

Liz:    LIVE Flying squirrel -- will use flying squirrel mount, too

Mary Ann:  Beaver chews, chips, stump, skulls; Beaver mount to show tail

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Mike will use PowerPoint slides from Control Room computer.

Sort of quiz with slide of photo then slide with photo identified.

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Mike – Antler chews, antler rubs, bear claw marks       

Liz – Scat, another sign. Caterpillar frass (caterpillar photo), show
deer scat (rubber), rabbit scat (rubber)

Mike:  Tracks -- plaster casts; demonstrates how to make track; rubber tracks; photo of tracking box  

Segment 4:  Break

 

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Liz and Mike leave.  Mary Ann remains.  Three students enter.

Mary Ann and students will use visualizer.

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Segment 5:  Mary Ann intros Nature Scene Investigations and Students

Mary Ann:  Woodpecker: pileated mount, downy mount, mantis egg cases, sapsucker holes

 

Segment 6:  Mary Ann intros Ed

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Ed will use visualizer.

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Ed:  Owl pellets -- Ed will direct kids in dissection

Ed intros skulls  (deer, beaver, raccoon)

 

Segment7:  Mike intros animal sounds

 

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Kids will use props to make sound. Mike will need audiotape played. 

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Kids help in making sound items and demonstrating them (White-tailed Deer, Pileated Woodpecker, Canebrake Rattlesnake)

Kids make sounds. Mike plays tape of sounds, kids identify their sounds and repeat.

 

Segment: 8  Wrap with Fillers

          If 10 min. left:  Mike show snake sheds and Liz get black rat or corn snake.

          If there are 5 minutes left, Mary Ann reflects with the kids and Mike show reference books/websites.

          If there are 3 minutes left Mary Ann reflects with the kids.

Segment 9:  Close:  Mary Ann recap goals