Science of Baseball

What does force and gravity have to do with baseball? Today Tim visits the Coastal Plains Baseball League to find out how pitchers use science from the mound.

NC.6.SP.5 Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context.

7.P.1 Understand motion, the effects of forces on motion and the graphical representations of motion.

NC.7.SP.1 Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population

NC.8.SP.1 Construct a graph or table from given categorical data and compare data categorized in the graph or table.

Schiele Planetarium

How does an Electical Engineer become an astronaut? Join Hailey as she talks to Joan Higginbotham about her experience as an astronaut and some of the benefits of space exploration.

6.E.1.3 Summarize space exploration and the understandings gained from them

Greensboro Science Center

Today Jackson explores robots made with Legos and learns how to program them to move around and pick up items.

68-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data. 68-AP-10 Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases.

68-AP-11 Distribute tasks and maintain a project timeline when collaboratively developing
computational artifacts.

Pirate Museum in Greenville

With more than 3,000 shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina, Tim visits the Pirate Museum in Greenville to learn more about our nickname ” Graveyard of the Atlantic”

8.L.4 Understand the evolution of organisms and landforms based on evidence, theories and
processes that impact the Earth over time.

First Lego League

From robots that deliver payloads to local stores to ball playing robots, Jackson joins First Lego League today to drive the creations of local students.

68-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.

68-AP-10 Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases.

68-AP-11 Distribute tasks and maintain a project timeline when collaboratively developing
computational artifacts.