Final Assignment: Evaluating Media for Classroom Use
Reflect on Rachel Connolly’s opening video on how to conceptualize light. You may watch it again here.
After watching, you’ll evaluate some of the media you’ve seen in the lesson in addition to two new ones you might consider using in your teaching. Complete both parts of the Final Assignment.
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
Final Assignment: Part 1
Review the media used in this lesson.
- Choose two examples that you would use in your own classroom and explain why each can be particularly effective in engaging students or demonstrating a concept related to light.
- Choose one example that you consider less useful than the others and explain why you think this.
Use the Menu button to jump back in the module and replay the media.
- Video: Light | Crash Course Astronomy (Excerpts)—Pages 6, 7, 13
- Interactive: Aspire Lab | Wavelength—Page 7
- Interactive: Aspire Lab | Frequency—Page 7
- Video: Pushing a Spacecraft with Light? | Physics Girl—Page 8
- Video: The Electromagnetic Spectrum—Page 9
- Video: Art Under a New Wavelength—Page 10
- Video: How Does the Kepler Telescope Work?—Page 11
- Video: Treasures of the Earth | Golden Telescope Mirrors—Page 12
- Interactive: Spectrometry Explained—Page 13
- Video: NOVA scienceNOW: Hunt for Alien Earths | Detecting Life on Other Planets—Page 14
