A Superior Adventure. It consists of a hands-on, interdisciplinary curriculum, Internet components, and a live, interactive satellite broadcast. The curriculum is available every summer and the live broadcast occurs mid-October every year. For the past 125 years, the Bell Museum has been dedicated to exploring the diversity of life in the natural world, and to promoting an understanding and appreciation of nature through excellence in collection, education and research. Schools or districts with satellite receivers can downlink the program or request that their local cable company downlink the show and send it to the school via cable.
Some schools receive the program through a local college or service cooperative.
Students studied the shipping industry and the resources that are transported to and from faraway and how they affect the world in which we live. 2000 subjects included the dynamic processes of lakes including food webs, lake turnover, and large lakes influence on climate. Participating schools received the Great Lakes curriculum at the start of the 2000-2001 school year and the live broadcast occurred on October 12, 2000. The fee includes one curriculum, Internet activities and access to the live broadcast. Registered schools may also tape the program for future educational use.