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Terra: The Nature of Our World

Terra Logo Terra: The Nature of Our World has become one of the world’s premiere science websites. The website features science films that are available to anyone through webcasting. Currently averaging 3.5M downloads of programming (after only its first year), Terra is getting ready to launch TerraPod,
a fully interactive science website for children between the ages of ten and fifteen. TerraPod is very different in its conception and design than Terra, because it involves kids with science through filmmaking. As an online social community based around science, TerraPod hopes to use free choice learning as a basis for encouraging children to get involved with both art and science. TerraPod is not going to be an entirely virtual community either; the producers have plans to have on-the-ground activities as well, including a summer science film camp. With support from Montana NSF EPSCoR, TerraPod is currently conducting a pilot project with 4H of Montana.


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