This TED talk was thoroughly beautiful, amazing, spectacular, unbelievable, puzzling, and more! When I viewed this my mind immediately thought of educational uses.
Fact:The person doing the thinking, is doing the learning.
Fact:The brain is lazy, and needs to be inspired to work.
Fact:Students need a reason to read or research.
Fact:There are soooooo many opportunities to inspire curiousity, that teachers have no excuse for putting kids to sleep. Let's wake up the class and get them: THINKING, READING, AND RESEARCHING.
Who knows? Perhaps someday they'll be studying "Blazars."
Quick CCSS-aligned lesson to encourage "short term research assignments:"
- Show this TED talk and amass a list of questions.
- Essential Question: How does space science (astrophysics) puzzle us?
- Ask students to describe what they saw. Tell them you "value vocabulary" and ask for expensive adjectives. (model this)
- Brainstorm a list of questions students might have, after watching the video.
- Have each student pick a question or two.
- Research the answers - a "mini-Inquiry"
- Hold a "meeting of the minds" and share new knowledge.
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