Using video segments to clarify concepts

This topic submitted by Maureen Davis ( maureen_davis@wgte.pbs.org ) at 10:19 on 2/28/99. Additions were last made on Monday, April 3, 2000.

I have had the opportunity to hear and suggest several different methods of using the Flight: Live Broadcast in the classrooms. It was designed to introduce several concepts and ideas about flight. Another idea was to have the students start with discussing and recording what they knew about how thing fly, what flys, etc. and then use segments of the flight broadcast or another video to compare the concepts. One teacher had an idea of using the video to refocus her students attention. She was allowing the students to replay sections of the video to double check their group work.
I have found that the 'Eyewitness: DK Media' videos are useful for being used in that manner. I think pausing the video and asking for predictions and question/answers add to students comprhension. Viewing the concepts in action by watching a video immediately gives a mental picture for sudents who are visual learners, allows those who are auditory learners to reinfore what they might have already heard, and videos could help stimulate the imaginations and interest of our kinesthetic learners - sometimes the hardest to reach in a traditional classroom. It also keeps them from falling asleep!

You can often reinforce multiple concepts visually by making use of segments of several videos. For example, the Eyewitness Flight video hhas beautifully explains flight in the human, animal and insect worlds; Eyewitness Bird has segments that explains the different types of bird wings are ment for different needs for bird flight and survival methods; and there are a couple of NOVA videos that deal aviation, Stunt flyers and Daredevils.

I also suggest making use of the classroom computer for small group/individual inquiry and curiousity. CD-ROM programs like SchoolNet's "Bald Eagle" and "Aviation Adventure " are searchable and easily used program that students could use to extend their individual knowledge.

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