Association of Children's Museums

Media Opportunity with PBS KIDS Sprout: "Let's Go Show" Discoveries

Note: All ACM open museum members received an email about this opportunity on Friday, March 7, 2008.
Members, please refer to that email for additional background and information.

WHAT:

Work with ACM to create scientific explanations for preschoolers on a variety of "Let's Go Show" Season Two topics.

WHO: All ACM open museum members are welcome to apply.

WHEN: Respond by March 17, 2008

WHY:

This is a great media and branding opportunity. If selected, your museum will be featured on the Sprout site, which averages 20,000 visitors per month. Your museum's scientific explanation will be credited and your museum's logo, exhibit/activity images and Web hyperlink will be included on the" Let's Go Show" microsite.

WHEN:
Click here and here to see ACM museums featured on Season One of the "Let's Go Show."

HOW:

If your museum would like apply as a "Let's Go Show" Discovery Expert, please complete the form below. ACM will notify all members about the selected museums.

Museums selection will be based on the following:

Museum/museum staff member has expertise to answer the topic question.

Museum staff has the capacity to work within the project timeline. (Draft explanation need to be written between March 17 and April 7).

Museum submitted a "Let's Go Show" Discovery Expert Application in a timely manner.

" Let's Go Show" Discovery Expert Application Form

Contact person completing this form (name, title):
Museum name:
Museum location:
Contact phone:
Contact email:
Staff member who will provide scientific explanation (name, title).	Note: Staff member needs to be an education or exhibit staff member.
My museum staff member can provide a scientific explanation, appropriate for preschool age children, on the following topic (s).	Topics: Check up to three topics only. 1) Desert plants; cacti 2) Water floatation 3) Body mechanics; how the body works to throw a ball, do a cartwheel 4) Music vibrations and sound travel 5) Paper production 6) Shadows 7) Curating museum collections 8) Phonics; pre-reading and building words 9) Telling time and different types of clocks 10) Wheels and locomotion (focus on trains) 11) Liquids to solids (focus on food, ice cream, Jell-O)	12) Veterinarian science (focus on differences in animal heartbeats) 13) Gravity; differences between gravity on the moon and on Earth 14) Wind power 15) Clouds 16) Coins (focus on various metals and tarnishing) 17) Phases of the moon 18) Building with shapes; columns and strength 19) Nocturnal animals/insect sounds 20) Metamorphosis (focus on caterpillar to butterfly) 21) Music and pitch
Please indicate that the museum expert/writer can work within the time constraints of this project.	I verify my museum can provide a scientifically accurate explanation about the topic(s) selected above to ACM between March 17 and April 7.
Extra: My museum has B-roll related to topic(s) that PBS Sprout may be able to use on the television broadcast of the" Let's Go Show." Please provide a description of the B-roll. (Limit 150 words)
		(**Please only press the Submit button once and wait for the Thank You page to appear to confirm that your email has been sent.)