Video clips on the hop
Dreaming stories, Early Stage 1, Stage 1 Tagged kangaroos, Youtube September 7th, 2009We are really enjoying the ease of finding short video clips via Encarta for Kids CD-ROM, and online at Youtube.
As a followup to last week’s Dreaming story, “How the kangaroos got their tails”, Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are investigating facts about kangaroos.
A trained(?) boxing kangaroo on TV – not so natural?
Compared to this version, where the opponents seem to finish their bout with no hard feelings:
And this amazing footage of newborn joeys in their mothers’ pouches:
September 12th, 2009 at 5:25 am
I am fascinated by the high quality of students’ talking and listening as they experience short, punchy (pun intended) video clips in an environment where such discussion is nutured. Stage 1 students can be very opinionated about the sometimes-stupidity of human beings vs the animal kingdom.