Science; Gr. 7-12.
NATURE is now in its 26th season on PBS. Over a quarter-century, NATURE has traveled the globe working with the world's foremost natural history filmmakers, becoming the benchmark of natural history programs on television. The series has won more than 400 honors from the television industry, the international wildlife film community, parent groups, and environmental organizations - including 10 Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and the first honor ever given to a program by the Sierra Club.

NATURE Online, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/, is the award-winning Web companion to the broadcast series and is spearheading NATURE's distribution to new media platforms. At NATURE Online, visitors can download behind-the-scenes video podcasts with filmmakers and producers, view program excerpts, and find fun interactive content, teacher lesson plans, and more. Online social networkers can join the NATURE group at Facebook and keep up with the latest videos, photos, program alerts and more.

Recognizing NATURE's vast potential as a learning resource, educational materials are available free of charge to every elementary and middle school teacher in America, online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/for-educators/. A NATURE comic book for children ages 10 to 12, also free, is distributed through your local public television station, retail outlets, education centers and museums nationwide, including the American Museum of Natural History.