I watched the educational tv show called the Magic School Bus. This show involves a teacher (Ms. Frizzle) and her students going on virtual bus rides. The bus can magically transform into a plane, submarine, spaceship or surfboard. Ms. Frizzle and her students go on fun field trips that teaches them about science. The episode I watched involved Ms. Frizzle and her students having a field trip down the digestive tract of one her students. This episode teaches children the processes of the digestive system and what happens during each stage of the digestive system. The overall purpose of this show is to encourage children to get involve in exploring different topics of science. The characters of this show are always eager to learn about new science topics that their teacher proposes. They seem excited to get messy with whatever they are exploring. Another hidden aspect of the show is that the students in Ms. …show more content…
The show makes exploring science fun. In other words, I believe if children see how much fun the characters are having exploring different science topics then it would be fun for them as viewers. As a result, children can learn from this show. I personally, got a better grasp of how the digestive system works due to the simple explanations. Seeing repeated visuals of digestive system helped with grasping the concept. Something that I like about the Magic school bus show is the idea that characters physically would explore whatever system they were talking about and do a recap of what system they just explored. In addition, to what their feelings and response were. To add value to this show, the show encourages children to get involve in science. For example, the characters of the show illustrate that science can be messy by wearing protective gear to do their exploring. Another take away is not be afraid of making mistakes because others can help you
The article briefly goes over The Wizard of Oz, both the film and the book, and discusses how they fit into Campbell’s hero’s journey. Emerson summarizes Campbell’s idea of the hero’s journey for the reader, then splits Dorothy’s journey into three phases. The first phase is her travels on the yellow brick road where in the film she meets the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, and in the book Dorothy and her companions overcome natural obstacles. The second phase begins when they meet the Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City, who sets them on a trial before they can receive their respective gifts. The pinnacle of this trial is the face off with the Wicked Witch of the West, where she is defeated when Dorothy throws a bucket of water on her
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is a story about a football town. The name of the town is Odessa. It is a small town on the west side of Texas and football is the only thing that matters. Bissinger gives the reader a glimpse of what life is like at an area high school called Permian. Very few towns are obsessed with sports like Permian and Ringgold when it comes to sports programs. In this essay, Permian and Ringgold sports will be compared by their programs and values that they place on sports.
In the short story “The Lesson”, Toni Bambara wrote about how school relates to the world, and Miss Moore teaches the students that anything can relate back to school subjects. Miss Moore takes the students to a toy story where she then teaches the
The material a child is exposed to influences the way they learn. Many smart and educated students get bullied for wanting to stay in and study instead of going out to party. Because of the social environment the “nerds” and “geeks” become social outcasts and could begin to lose interest in education. Today’s society does not promote the importance of education. While standing in line at the grocery store, many magazines are headlining about another wild stunt from a famous person such as the Kardashians. The other handful of magazines is about food. “Because of television, by the age of six, a child will have learned how to pick a lock, elaborate a fairy tale bank robbery, prevent wetness all day, to keep laundry white, and kill people with a variety of armaments.” (Baker
John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost and Mark Water’s movie Mean Girls display how different parental styles affect children. Parents are important characters in all works, whether it be a novel, play, movie, epic, or television show. As a result of the many mediums in which parents are portrayed, often different representations of parents can appear. This is the case with Paradise Lost and Mean Girls. Not only do these works showcase the different ways parental figures govern over children, but they also show how the reactions children have to these controls can be very similar even in different situations. As is apparent with the parent and/or divine leader roles of God the Father and Satan in Paradise Lost and Mrs. George and Mr. and Mrs. Heron in Mean Girls. An analysis of both Paradise Lost and Mean Girls
There is no such thing as the ‘perfect family.’ No one grows up with a flawless mother and faultless father in picture perfect house. For Will, from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, had an absent father and moved across the country to live with his wealthy uncle in one of the richest neighborhoods in Los Angeles to help straighten out his life. One day his father, Lou, decided to show up 14 years later, who was a little inept in expressing his feelings. While Lou demonstrates poor, ineffective communication skills, Uncle Phil has been nothing but a tower of support and strength for Will with competent communication.
Rachael Hawson (3416) Module 3 – Design in Historical Context A Study into the History of Albion Road Boys School Torpoint (Penntorr), by comparison to the surrounding villages, is a relatively new town development, furthermore it's development did not begin until during the late 18th century 'commissioned by Reginald Pole Cerew in the Parish of Antony in 1774. ' (Wikipedia. n.d.) and remained relatively unchanged until the late 1800's when further developments were planned. This study is intended to highlight the historical importance of the Albion Road School and the education system at the time of its erection to date, therefore it would be beneficial to look at the education system within England as a whole at this time. During the latter half of the 18th century there were very few educational facilities available, most of them being run by the
RISKA NURINSANI 1401691 Movie review SEASON OF THE WITCH Season of the Witch was released on January 7, 2011 in the United State, Canada and other territories and directed by Dominic Sena with extensive incredited reshoots by Brett Ratner. He illustrates the inspiration from The Seventh Seal (1957). He used classic tale of knight who returns from the Crusades and encounters Death on the road. This movie is an American fantasy and adventure, starred by Nicolas Cage as Behmen and Ron Perlmen as Felson. Season of the Witch starred by some popular actors and actreeses such as Claire Foy, Stephen Campbell, Robert Sheehan, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham, Christopher Lee and many more.
Bewitched is important by the way in which it establishes and explores a discourse of modern, suburban life. This discourse however, directly explores tensions of the era in which it was produced. Its discourse - fantasy and its fantastical set ups are key towards unmasking "the conventionality of the everyday" (Spigel, 2001:123).
...o listen carefully to ensure that kids are discussing scientific ideas, not socializing. The teacher's role is to ensure that students achieve their primary goal: meaningful understanding of scientific concepts. The practices described in this article help bring this about in several ways. When instruction centers on students and focuses on hands-on experience with scientific phenomena, science class becomes an exciting place. When instruction concentrates on the investigation of current problems and issues through scientific inquiry, science class becomes a relevant and meaningful place. When instruction emphasizes the development of communication skills, science class becomes an invaluable place for preparing children to tackle the challenges of adulthood. And the education community owes it to its students to assess their academic progress fairly and accurately.
Children in grades 3 through 5 are moving from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" and from "learning to write" to "writing to communicate". Students learn to work independently. They learn to read words and make mental pictures. Third through fifth graders also learn to write paragraphs, short essays and stories that make a point. The curriculum becomes more integrated. "Reading to learn" helps third through fifth graders better understand the scientific method and how to test hypotheses about the physical world. Additionally, "reading to learn" aids students in graphing and calculating scientific observations and then writing up their conclusions. Third grade science class will open new worlds of wonder and invite curious mind to explore (Williams, 2012).
When we sit in a science class, most of the time we are bored as bored can get. We really do not get a chance to explore on our own to find out what’s really out there. Teachers sometimes are not able to get in depth outside the textbook because they are required to teach that all throughout the year. That is why a lot of kids do not really get into science because they are stuck in the book all the time. Some kids love science and do not really care about the work they have to do.
Teachers must catch the children’s interest and once they get it they cannot lose it. A teacher can motivate their children to love science in many ways. They can motivate their children by giving them a prize or a gift to reward them for doing their work or by participating in class activity. For example, in the science class if a child answers a question correctly then the teacher will give that child a prize or a gift as a reward. This will motivate not only that child but also other children in the class to take part more in classroom activity thus, it will help them to improve and perform better in class. Another way of motivating children to love science is to bring science to life where the teacher takes the children on a field trip so that they can not only hear about some of the science topic but they can also see or even touch. Doing this will help to explore and develop a love for science. Teachers can also have the children doing experiment in class which will also excite them and help them to love science since it is fun. Children can also be motivated through school science fair where they are given an opportunity to participate in it. Thus, this will encourage the children more as they will see how fun science can truly be and also be exposed to new opportunities. Another ways is by connection science with the children’s life and show them how everything they do is related to science since nothing happens without
One of the widest used methods is learning through discovery. Discovery is finding out information using hands on experiments. The children can discover what happens in science and why. They answer the problems for themselves. They use their schema, prior knowledge of science, to search for information. The cycle of scientific discovery is first a question or series of questions are raised. Second, through a discussion a problem is identified and narrowed so that the kids can solve the problem. Third, with the assistance of the teacher, the children propose a way of looking at the problem and then collect the...