Lesson Objective: Students should be able to: 1. Define race. 2. Explain what makes human populations different. 3. Analyze the effectiveness of "race" in categorizing human populations.
Instructional videos would be extremely useful in the classroom especially for teaching material that has more emotion involved. For example, the use of music, photos and text in this video presents the concept of "race" in a much more effective way than just lecturing would. Also, since students today are immersed in a world of technology, showing instructional videos is something they would be more familiar with and they would be able to relate to. Instructional videos would also be good for student projects. I've always been an advocate of giving options for final projects such as posters, powerpoints, book reports or an instructional video. Students could use them in a social studies setting for book reports, videos about certain wars or battles, or biographies of famous people. It would be a creative way for students to present the knowledge they have learned. Students could do mini "documentaries" as well for a history class, or for a psychology class they could video-tape themselves doing social experiments or interviewing people. I had a teacher that had a project for a psychology class where we had to break a social-norm and write about our reaction and others' reaction. It could be a good idea to tell students they could get extra credit if they made an instructional video of their project.
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteVery well done! Your point was very clear. I thought the stats you shared were particularly powerful. The mention of culture threw me a little since I thought it was a topic change, but I really liked your conclusion. Excellent job!