Did you know you could borrow standards aligned documentaries from PBS? Included in their vast library are lesson plans. Since October is Health Literacy Awareness, check out their list of documentaries related to health topics.
Hosting a screening event of a high quality documentary can benefit your program by creating student engagement, fostering community awareness of your program, and provide students with an opportunity to connect learning with real world experiences.
I invite you to explore this list and share an idea of how you can use it with your students. Which documentary appeals to you? And which lesson plans will help you teach media literacy?
Sincerely,
Kathy Tracey
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As you consider hosting a screening for a meaningful documentary at your program, also consider showing Resistance. From the documentary description, "Antibiotics were first massed-produced in the 1940s and their ability to fight and kill bacteria revolutionized medicine and profoundly impacted everything from agriculture to war. After less than 80 years, however, these miracle drugs are failing. Resistant infections kill hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year and there are now dozens of so-called Superbugs each with its own challenges and costs. How did this happen? Using microscopic footage, harrowing personal stories, and expert insights RESISTANCE clarifies the problem of antibiotic resistance, how we got to this point, and what we can do to turn the tide."
How would you use this in your classroom? Do you think documentary screenings are possible for your program?
Sincerely,
Kathy Tracey
Thanks, Kathy, for calling our attention to this documentary.
As you may know, in 2014 a group of adult education science teachers from the LINCS Science CoP produced this list of science instruction videos organized by: 1) science video collection sites, and by 2) science topic: Animals, Astronomy, Botony (Plants), Chemistry, Earth Science, Human body, health and disease, Microscopic view of the world, Nature, Nutrition, Physics, Science history, and Zoology. A 20-page version of science video reviews, a few of the videos from this science videos list, will be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6715575/Science%20Video%20Reviews%208.17.14.docx .
David J. Rosen
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Friends, I came across this article about hosting video screenings. I am in the process of hosting a screening for the movie 13th so I thought I would share tips from the article for that might help anyone who is new to this strategy as an instructional resource.
1. Identify the purpose of the screening. Why are you having it? What is the message? Who is the target audience and what do you want to teach them? For example, in adult ed and science, you could use movies like an Inconvenient Truth and talk about climate change.
2. How will you know you reached your academic (or other) goal after the screening?
3. Who will be a part of the screening? Beyond the target audience, are there any community partners who can help?
4. How will you encourage people to attend? Use a strategic marketing plan to promote the event. While the main purpose is to educate your students, you can also connect students to community resources or even recruit new students to your program.
We would love to hear about any screenings you might be hosting in your community.
Kathy