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Science Teaching Series

• The Sourcebook for Teaching Science
• Hands-On Physics Activities
• Hands-On Chemistry Activities

Internet Resources

I. Developing Scientific Literacy

• 1 - Building a Scientific Vocabulary
• 2 - Developing Science Reading Skills
• 3 - Developing Science Writing Skills
• 4 - Science, Technology & Society

II. Developing Scientific Reasoning

• 5 - Employing Scientific Methods
• 6 - Developing Scientific Reasoning
• 7 - Thinking Critically & Misconceptions

III. Developing Scientific Understanding

• 8 - Organizing Science Information
• 9 - Graphic Oganizers for Science
• 10 - Learning Science with Analogies
• 11 - Improving Memory in Science
• 12 - Structure and Function in Science
• 13 - Games for Learning Science

IV. Developing Scientific Problem Solving

• 14 - Science Word Problems
• 15 - Geometric Principles in Science
• 16 - Visualizing Problems in Science
• 17 - Dimensional Analysis
• 18 - Stoichiometry

V. Developing Scientific Research Skills

• 19 - Scientific Databases
• 20 - Graphing & Data Analysis
• 21 - Mapping & Visualizing Data
• 22 - Science Inquiry & Research
• 23 - Science Projects & Fairs

VI. Resources for Teaching Science

• 24 - Science Curriculum & Instruction
• 25 - Planning Science Instruction
• 26 - The Science Laboratory
• 27 - Science Reference Information

Making your own videos

Acquiring Source Material

• Camera - Digital cameras are equipped with a video mode and a still photograph mode
• Scanner - Scan old slides, negatives, prints, documents.
• Phone - Smart phones have still and video capabilities.
• Internet - Many sources of free public domain images
• Webcam - webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi.
• Document Camera - a document camera is able to magnify and project the images of actual, three-dimensional objects, as well as transparencies.
• Screen Capture - A screenshot o, screen capture is an image taken by a computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device.
• Screen Casting - A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration.
• Video microscope

Movie Editing

• Acquiring source material
• Tips for Making good Movies
• There are a variety of movie formats that work on the web.
• Sample files for editing
  • Sierras - introduction
  • Sierras

Examples from videomicroscopy (Quicktime)

• Stentor, Paramecium, Amoeba
• Cell Division: Caenorhabditis elegans embryo undergoing the first two cell divisions.

Tools to locate video clips

• AltaVista Video Search: Perform video search.
• Quicktime VR: "QuickTime VR moves the photographic image from the flat, 2D world into a more immersive experience, complete with 3D imagery and interactive components."

Extracting video / Making video work on your machine

• Handbrake - extract video sections from DVDs
• Perian - open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
• Flip-4-Mac - Digital media tools for the Mac

Controlling videos

• Sample of embeded movie
• Imbedding movies from YouTube
• Comparison of embedded movie and linked movie

<EMBED src="reaction.mov" width="500" height="300" autoplay="true"
CONTROLLER="false" </EMBED>

html tags for embedding video

 

Sample homemade movies.

Movies made from other sources

• Vidoemicroscopy
• Graphing calculator
• Interactive Physics

 

 

 

• Norman Herr, Ph.D.
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