Topic: The Rock Cycle
Activity:
This activity would follow the lesson in activity 2, where students watch a video and classify a number of rocks.
The video I would create would have me in various locations around Campbell River, looking at different rock outcroppings. I would show the students the location, and then a close view of the rock I was examining. I would look at examples from all 3 categories of rocks (sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous).
Before watching the video, I would give the students (in pairs) samples of the various rocks that I show on the video. Students would be engaged with looking at the rocks and matching them during viewing of the video.
According to Woolfit (2015), the affordance of this video is as a “virtual field trip.” Students would also be motivated, as it is their teacher making the video, and there would be recognizable areas from their local community.
In addition, according to Mayer (2020) the video would include the design principle of being “generative.” The students will have samples in front of them with a partner, and will be engaged with summarizing during learning.
References:
Mayer, R. E., Fiorella, L., & Stull, A. (2020). Five ways to increase the effectiveness of instructional video. Educational Technology Research & Development, 68(3), 837–852.
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Woolfit, Z. (2015). The effective use of video in higher education (Rep.). Retrieved October 2, 2018, from https://www.inholland.nl/media/10230/the-effective-use-of-video-in-higher-education-woolfitt-october-2015.pdf
