My 12th grade Physical Science class has been restructured. Basically, about half of my students had Physical Science in 9th grade at other schools and they all had Chemistry last year. While it’s still Physical Science, we are spending a great deal of time on astronomy and the basic physics they need to understand the universe. The kids are very excited about their astronomy course, as am I. I am thinking about showing them the entire series of “From the Earth to the Moon.” It’s long, real long. There are 12, one-hour episodes. I also plan on showing them Apollo 13. I’m just not sure I want to show twelve days of shows, but I don’t think there are any episodes I would leave out. Showing one, or even two a week will take too long, we’ll be done astronomy before I finish. So I’m looking for the opinions of other teachers. What do you think? What would you do?
November 20, 2008
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I just found your blog…thanks for putting it up!
You probably already figured out an answer to the question you posed…but just in case. I would pick segments that are relevent to what you are discussing. You might even show 10 minutes a day and then spend the rest of the lecture talking and discussing from there. You could treat it like a warm up activity. Hopefully there is a chapter index so you wouldn’t have to spend time figuring out which segment is what. 12 hours is a lot of footage for students to watch. While kids like watching videos…they aren’t engaged like the would be during a discussion. Hope that helps or you figured out somehithing that works even better.
Comment by Courtney — January 5, 2009 @ 4:13 pm |
So far, I’ve done nothing about this. The astronomy project turned into a marathon. Maybe next year.
Comment by Scott — January 7, 2009 @ 8:18 pm |