Category: Ruff Ruffman

NASA: Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms, Ruff Ruffman

Ruff Meets NASA

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Ruff Ruffman’s Ring of Fire Travel Guide: A Classroom Activity for Grades 3-5

Learn about volcanoes in the Ring of Fire and their relationship to earthquakes and mountain ranges with this game featuring PBS Kids character Ruff Ruffman produced by WGBH. Students help Ruff verify information about volcanoes that he has presented in a travel guide for his grandmother’s vacation. The game includes visual and text-based reference materials that students use as they progress through the game and learn about the relationships between volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain ranges.

This activity is funded by NASA under cooperative agreement award No. NNX16AD71A. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Jobs, Ruff Ruffman

We’re Hiring a Production Coordinator!

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We are looking for a Digital Production Coordinator to join our Children’s Media team at WGBH. This position will primarily support WGBH’s digital development of a new STEM-focused Ready to Learn project for PBS that includes mobile games, app, web content, and learning adaptivity tools.

The Digital Production Coordinator will take on a key support role, working hand-in-hand with senior producers to help ensure the project is completed on time, within budget, and at an industry-leading level of quality. Responsibilities will include managing the day-to-day production schedule and deliverables, creating and managing task lists, fostering communication across the team, writing requirements and other content, managing user testing, and coordinating QA.

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For more about us and our team: https://wgbhkids.com/process/

Apply to Position: P-02827