Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

Do you watch science videos in class? Of course you do. But, what do you do after watching the video? How do you get students to respond to it? In this post (and video – see above), I share three activities I use to get my students to connect and respond to the video they just watched.

Episode Notes

Here are a couple of big ideas from the episode:

1. Strategy #1. I use this for longer videos and documentaries – for example, Planet Earth or Bill Nye videos. On a separate sheet of paper, students draw a t-chart with the heading on one side, “what I know” and on the other side, “what I learned”. During the video, students take down 10-20 notes from the video in total on either side. At the end of the video, students tally up their points and hand it in. I’ll take a few minutes to look over what students wrote down. I find this strategy good for having students connect the video with their previous knowledge.
2. Strategy #2 – I use this with my classes after watching a science news video – for example, I used this with one class after watching a video on how crispr is being used to cure sickle cell disease. After the video, I show students a list of top tens – for example, top ten topics where science is being used to solve the problem. And then I ask students to rank these topics and also include the topic from the video – for example, sickle cell research – on that list. Where would sickle cell research place on that list? Students write down the rankings on a separate half sheet of paper and we discuss their rankings. I find this strategy good for having students connect the video with other science concepts.
3. Strategy #3 – I have students write out statements to 1 to 3 prompts that I post – and these 3 prompts are always the same. Prompt 1 – “what I watched reminds me of something I learned in….because…”. Prompt 2 – “what I watched reminds me of the time I…because…”. Prompt 3 – “what I watched reminds me about the future because…” I’ll collect these responses and share a few – anonymously, of course. I find this strategy a good way to connect the video with something else in their lives.

Resources

Handout(s): Ep90 Handouts – Three Activities for Students After Watching a Science Video

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