Dear all
I work for the Earthwatch Institute - an international environmental charity. We support a wide variety of environmental research projects around the world and champion the concept of citizen science - enabling people to join these research projects as research assistants and get involved with real, ongoing environmental science in the field.
One of the groups of people we are constantly trying to get involved in our projects is UK secondary school science/geography/citizenship teachers. Earthwatch provides teachers with fully-funded places on our UK-based projects. These are not only fantastic opportunities for CPD, but also the educational outcomes are plenty in terms of resources produced in conjunction with teachers - e.g. these films produced on two teacher teams during the summer of 2007 and meant as a 'spring-board' for discussions in the classroom based on the project science focuses http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/involved_learning/learning_resources/resources_videos/ (which forms the link with Alom's original email below); and also in terms of what the teachers do with the experience on their return to the classroom - i.e. draw on it to inspire their students and illustrate specific areas of the curriculum etc.
So, in short, I would like to flag up the films above to any teachers interested in taking a look at/using them, and also I would like to draw to your attention the fact that there are still places available on our Educator Programme this summer for those interested in getting involved in this fantastic, free opportunity to contribute to real conservation science, and that application materials can be found on our website here: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/educators#opportunity (ignore deadline given on this webpage - the extended deadline is actually Friday May 22nd, 2009).
Thanks for your time and I hope to be seeing some of you in the field this summer!
Best regards, Caroline
Caroline Rodgers
Programme Manager ~ Engagement
Earthwatch Institute,
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Tel: +(0) 44 1865 318826
Fax: +(0) 44 1865 318869
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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alom Shaha
Sent: 28 April 2009 15:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PSCI-COM] Web videos for teaching
Hello all,
I am a science teacher at a secondary school.
I am trying to compile a list of freely available web based videos that could be used to help
teach science at KS3 and KS4. I am looking for short videos that could be used to teach
particular aspects of the curriculum, for example an animation of nuclear fission or an
explanation of why current is conserved in a circuit. Additionally, I am looking for videos
that could be used to initiate discussion or debate around a KS3 / KS4 science topic. I'd be
grateful for any links you can send me.
If you are a science teacher, I'd like to talk to you about your experiences of using the web
to find videos for use in the classroom, so please get in touch.
Thanks,
Alom Shaha
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