Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it. Well, Fast Forward does! We interview multiple on-air and off-air Weather Channel employees, showing a variety of opportunities: meteorologists, radio personalities, designers, and IT personnel.
This unit third grade unit integrates engineering, ELA, mathematics, and social studies to teach students about the components of a country and robotics. In the first half of the unit, students delve into writing by conducting research on a country to create an informational booklet.
In this project-based learning unit that integrates, science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics, students investigate how meteorologists measure and forecast the weather by engineering weather instruments, collecting and analyzing weather data, and producing a weather forecast.
During this three-week, flipped classroom unit, students investigate how constructive and destructive forces constantly change the Earth’s surface, and how scientists attempt to control these forces’ effects through tools and human intervention.
In this project-based learning unit that integrates engineering applications, physical science, and visual arts, students assume the role of engineer to build a safe, stable, and fun roller coaster.
This project-based unit guides students in analyzing the cost of a college education through the use of algebraic and statistical skills. Students first research college investment options and make decisions based on longitudinal data and trends from a scatter plot.
The Sports Broadcast Institute (SBI) at Rockdale College and Career Academy allows students to master Audio, Video, Technology, and Film (AVTF) standards as well as work in an environment that resembles a real life production company.
Famous for her classic novel Gone with the Wind, Peggy Mitchell had been rebellious in her youth, choosing not to finish college and acting less than modestly in Atlanta society. While working as a reporter, she spent three years writing her novel.
University of Georgia historian Emory Thomas, reenactor J.C. Nobles, and Marty Willett, a historic interpreter at the Jarrell Plantation in Jones County explain Gen. William T.
World War II played a big part in the baby boom. Two World War II veterans, Cdr. Tyler Gresham and Lt. Col. Charles Dryden, recall the loneliness of WWII while June Duncan, wife of Gen. L.C. Duncan, describes what it was like when the soldiers did return home.
Using Stately Oaks mansion in Jonesboro as a setting, a group of men and women recreate a typical after-dinner discussion on whether or not the colony of Georgia should take sides in the impending fight to separate from Great Britain.
Coca-Cola archivist Phil Mooney and Rick Allen, author of Secret Formula, a history of Coke, comment on Coca-Cola's early history and its rise to become a seminal part of American culture.
