Digital Video in Science Education

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Candles
Speed of Sound I
Speed of Sound II
Dissolving Sugar Cubes
Sugar in Hot Water
Sugar Cubes Stirred
Speed of Sound at 210 Meters
Measuring Time Differences Using iMovie6
Fireworks Burst 1
Fireworks Burst 2
SR-71 Blackbird
Motion Analysis Using Logger Pro
Modeling the Solar Eclipse

From “Digital Video in Science Education” by John Park
(in Teaching with Digital Video: Watch, Analyze, Create, ISTE)

Ten Ways Digital Video Can Enhance Science Learning:

- Video demonstrations for those that don’t always work or involve potential hazard.
- Stop-motion animations to increase understanding of scientific processes.
- Video demonstrations of proper laboratory skills.
- Interactive object movies to provide a 3D aspect to models and specimens.
- Interactive panoramas to enable a 3D view of a location.
- Engaging context for taking motion and time measurements of recorded events.
- Synchronized with related data for in-depth analysis.
- Scenes from popular Hollywood movies as a context for analysis.
- Hard-to-see desktop demonstrations enlarged for full classroom viewing.
- Real-world contexts for assessments.