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"Journey to Planet Earth" Receives Major Educational Endorsement

Produced by Marilyn and Hal Weiner, the first three episodes of the new PBS series Journey To Planet Earth were just evaluated and endorsed by the California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse. The series was rated "high quality" by a team of curriculum experts and found to "stimulate critical thinking, facilitate the integration of biology. botany, economics, environmental studies, ecology and sociology." They also described the series as providing "an important contribution towards improving the quality of classroom instruction."

Journey To Planet Earth has already received the endorsement of three major educational publications: The School Library Journal, Booklist and The Journal Of Academic Librarianship.

Shot on location around the world and featuring three one-hour specials each year, Journey To Planet Earth is the first continuing television series to deal exclusively with important environmental and sustainable development issues. The first three episodes focused on rivers, agriculture and mega-cities.

Journey To Planet Earth's underwriters include the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Kellogg Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Continental Airlines, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Honda Foundation and the Department of Agriculture.

Journey To Planet Earth's educational outreach partners include: the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the Girl scouts of America, the North American Association for Environmental Education, the U.S. Geological Survey, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the National 4-H, the GLOBE Program, NASA's Earth Science Enterprise and the Department of Agriculture's Classroom Program.