| Videos are a dynamic tools to reflect on one's teaching. Video use in the science methods course is used for student and instructor reflection, vignette and case development, and video capture for research. You have to download a free Quicktime Player in order to view these videos. Choose your operating system and download.
Biology: This first video clip shows how to setup a lab station and how teachers progressed through the elodea lab. This is an example of presrvice teachers working with microscopes and preparing a lside of elodea. Chemistry: In chemistry many teachers use CBLs to increase the experience of collecting and analyzing data. This first clip shows presrvice teachers setting up an acid/base titration lab in which they will collect data with CBLs. The preparation for this lab involves the preparation of solutions. Many preservice teachers do not know how to prepare solutions because the solutions were always prepared for them for labs in college. Dr. Veal stresses the importance of solution preparation by demonstrating how it is done. He calls on volunteers to show how its done. Inquiry is often a new teaching methods that many people, students and preservice tachers, have never experienced. In this candle activity these preservice teachers are trying to understand the specific, yet limited directions for a particular phenomenon. When lighted candles are on puddy in a tin pan with water in it, water rises up in the inverted jar after the candles are extinguished. Why does this happen? Are detailed observations made? | | | Teaching and learning chemistry in an inqiury manner.
The following video clip shows how some preservice science teachers approached an inquiry problem of designing a methods to dtermine what pH worked best with a specfici antacid.
Antacid Is it magic, or what does it tell us about the nature of science.
Science sometimes seems mysterious or magical, when in fact it is due to to lack of observation skills. This video shows the instructor using a simple tube with strings to introduce the idea of the nature of science.
Magic Tube | |
