Monday, December 1st, 2008...6:37 pm
YouTube Videos To Ignite Science
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Having just finished my marking for the evening I thought I would pop into my twitter account.
I saw this from ‘the beeb’ and wasn’t sure what to make of it…
“Screaming Jelly Babies and exploding puddings are being used to attract more recruits into science teaching”
Though Science can be associated with exciting experiments, is this really the best way of attracting potential Teachers of Science?
Is there room for discussion here?
I think that these clips should be on teachertube.com - a better platform for teachers, pupils and companies.
Let me know what you think 
Photo credit: jimillpicit
3 Comments
December 1st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
The screaming jellybabies experiment is on teachers TV as well Tess..
http://www.teachers.tv/video/110/resources
I agree about teachertube though - saves having to convert youtube files for school
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Thanks for that Jaye
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Teaching science through hands on interactive fun experiments is definately the way to go. Kids and teachers both get burned out by textbook only approach. Lets face it text books are no fun. If you can mingle the text book learning with fun experiments that capitvate the mind, then the learning goes way up! Here is a quote:
Confucius: “They told me, and I forgot it. I saw it, and I understood. I did it, and I learned.”
John
http://weirdsciencekids.com
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