Links to Age of the Earth Debate Dramatization
Links to Age of the Earth Debate dramatization
To engage students, especially those less inclined toward science, I included story telling. Having a storyline that includes a beginning, middle, and end helps structure content presentation and engage students in developing coherent understandings. For this course, it included a student-acted dramatization of a debate concerning the age of the earth (Stinner et al., 2003), and a couple of science fiction short stories (Harrison, 1992; Preuss, 1992). These various story forms are both novel additions to most science classes and offer a more human context to the science content and process, garnering student interest and critical thinking when students are asked to reflect on the science as part of the whole story.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/217090549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZfh2cFsMI&t=428s&ab_channel=GlennDolphin
References
Harrison, H. (1992). Dawn of the endless night. In The ultimate dinosaur (pp. 264–273). Bantam Books.
Preuss, P. (1992). Rhea's time. In The ultimate dinosaur (pp. 88–99). Bantam Books.
Stinner, A., & Teichmann, J. Â. r. (2003). Lord Kelvin and the age-of-the-earth debate: A dramatization. Science education, 12(2), 213–228.
