You and Your Students!
Vicki Cobb, Education World Science Editor
Announcing a new video project! Kids prove that science can be fun by performing science experiments on video.
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Here's an opportunity for your students to be in Show-Biz Science big time! (Families can participate too.) I'm launching a video project that will include "You Tube"-like videos of kids doing science tricks from my books. I'm looking for teachers and/or parents to make short (1 minute to 2 minutes) digital video clips of kids doing those tricks.
With the help of teachers or families, students/children will produce a video based a science trick from one of five books co-authored by Vicki Cobb and Kathy Darling.
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Act I
Here is the challenge!
With the help of teachers or families, students/children will produce a video based on one of the science tricks included in any of these five books co-authored by Vicki Cobb and Kathy Darling:
--- Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You
--- Bet You Can't! Science Impossibilities to Fool You
--- Wanna Bet? More Science Challenges to Amaze and Astound
--- Don't Try This at Home! Science Fun for Kids on the Go
--- You Gotta Try This! Absolutely Irresistible Science
Students/children will create videos of them performing science tricks found in those books. Vicki Cobb will select some of the videos for posting on her Web site, vickicobb.com. She plans to create a kind of "You Tube" of videos of elementary-grade children doing the tricks. Students/children might work on their own, in pairs, or in small groups to present one of the science tricks. Different students/pairs/groups might perform the same or different tricks.
Production Tips
Videos will likely be edited before posting. Editing might be, but will not be limited to, the addition of graphics and music.
Even though the five books above are currently out of print, they are widely available in school and community libraries. (The books are set to be reissued as a single volume in the spring of 2008. The new book, We Dare You! A Giant Collection of Amazing Science Challenges, will be released by Skyhorse Publishing.)
For additional information about this project, including a release form that must be submitted with each video, go to Vicki Cobb's Web site, vickicobb.com.
Article By Vicki Cobb
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03/22/2007