Oobleck Podcast

I decided to do my podcast on a science lesson that I taught when student teaching related to states of matter.

F- podcast

A- teachers

T- science experiment

P- to share Oobleck lesson and recipe with teachers

Script outline

Introduction to podcast
Materials needed
Goals of lesson
Discus before hand properties of liquid and solid
Let children experiment and observe Oobleck
Introduce new term suspension
Wrap up

I created a podcast video for my presentation that I am unable to download off my camera at this time.

http://www.wellesley.edu/ChildStudy/pages/oobleck.html (materials needed)
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical_Sciences/PHY0205.html (goals)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anothercodemonkey/2955870522/(picture kid experimenting with oobleck)

The overall experience of creating a podcast was actually fun once I had decided on the topic of the podcast. I am late in gettingn the assignment turned in and still it isn't complete. Not to excuse my tardiness but to explain that things have been out of my control to an extent with my computer crashing and trying to save everything on it that I need (the entire four years of my sons life in pictures and video, assignments) and multiple family members that have been hospitalized over the last week and a half. My mind hasn't exactly been honed in to classes.
I think that podcast are a great way for teachers to share their lesson ideas. If a podcast was thorough enough it could take the place of students actually doing an experiment hands on. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this but science is a subject that is weened out of classroom time due to teachers needing to meet the requirement of standardized test, in these instances podcast could be beneficial.

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I subscribed to an Itunes podcast titled YERT:your environmental road trip. The episode that I viewed was the feature film trailer 1. I chose this episode as I was intrigued by the concept of the podcast. Here's what it was about, 3 people, 50 states, 1 year, and 1 planet to save. The video was informative, creatively shot in my opinion, facts and statistics were used, the idea ot travel the 50 states over the course of a year and document how various folks are approaching environmental sustainability. I was intrigued enough by the trailer that I want to see more podcast and the entire film. I felt that this was one of those videos that presented the issue of protecting our earth because it is the only one we have in a down to earth way that is educational. They use interviews with average people to help explain environmental issues.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=55843071&id=217704203

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I found the creation of the slideshare relatively easy provided I did it right. The subject matter was interesting and easy to get caught up in. I was also impressed with the Yahoo image search that sifted out the images that had creative common copyrights.
I apologize for having to submit my thoughts on the assignment separately my computer is having difficulties that have it shutting down whenever it feels like.

Sea Turtle Slideshare and Xmind

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