Our classroom and school are in desperate need of an exciting science video library. We need 16 videos such as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "National Geographic: Restless Earth".
$551 goal
This project expired on October 18, 2009.
This project expired on October 18, 2009.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
I am a sixth grade Earth science teacher in an inner city, low income school in Illinois.
As my students live in an urban area of Illinois, a lot of the interesting Earth science topics are out of reach for field trips. We do not have mountains, volcanoes, hurricanes (thank goodness) and not much in the way of nature.
My one hook is video! Really cool science videos engage my students and give them a window into a world they do not often see. The video visual aids helps my English Language Learners also make a connection to what we have been learning in class.
I have found that the topics that we have seen on a big screen have had a higher rate of retention.
The problem is we do not have money for quality videos. I already do spend a bunch of time arranging video clips from the Internet but our computers are so old and slow that the clips loose much of their excitement as the computer stalls and loads.
It would be such an advantage for our classroom and science lab to build this
science video library. You can open my students eyes and excite their love for science.
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