The Kid Should See This  • January 21, 2025

👂 WHAT TO WATCH (AND HEAR) THIS WEEK:

The haunting Madagascar calls of the world’s largest lemurs ➜

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For video viewing in education, I like flipped learning expert Jon Bergmann’s idea of using the verb "interact" instead of "watch"—it emphasizes active engagement over passive consumption and sets up effective teaching strategies for critical thinking: See-Think-Wonder to build observation and analytical reasoning, Think-Pair-Share to explore multiple perspectives, video-adapted Text Connections to deepen personal relevance, "I Used to Think... Now I Think..." to reveal thinking shifts, and more.

Links from my week include:

🧰 FacingHistory.org’s curated collection of teaching strategies

🧰 Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox

🌍 Cultivating a Culture of Active Hope from seeding-action.org, ASTC’s climate initiative for science and technology centers. It also includes links and perspectives relevant to the classroom and parenting at home.

🎧 From Brains On: Understanding big fires and big feelings. Scroll for their recommended links and resources.

🎧 On a different note, I’m very excited about the Vera Rubin Observatory, a new telescope in Chile that’s turning on this year. It has the largest camera ever built and should “completely transform our catalog of outer solar system objects.” This includes potentially finding Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet that some scientists think might be influencing the orbits of distant objects through its gravitational pull. SciAm’s Science Quickly podcast has a new episode about it.

— Rion

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