Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Relationships Between Scientific Ideas in a Text
Provided by: Khan Academy
Videos Grades 3-5, 6-8
Synopsis
- This video lesson shows students how to gather information from a scientific text, connect it to other ideas and events, and tackle vocabulary by evaluating a passage about Professor Mario Molina's discovery of ozone layer depletion by CFCs.
- Students will learn how to interpret transitions, what to do with unknown words, and how to connect ideas in a scientific text with a simple example and then a detailed examination.
Subjects: Chemistry, Earth and Space Sciences, English Language Arts
Authors: Khan Academy
Region: South and Central America, Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The narrator uses humor to engage students.
- The bowl of noodles as an analogy helps illustrate the topic to students in a memorable way.
Prerequisites
- Students should know the purpose of reading scientific texts.
- It may help students to understand what the ozone layer is.
- This video is 7 minutes and 41 seconds long.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Students with low listening comprehension may benefit from having a copy of the transcript to highlight and annotate.
- After watching the video, students can practice the strategies by reading an informational text on a scientific topic.
- Students can create an anchor chart depicting the bowl of noodles and relate the analogy to connecting ideas in an informational text.
- Science teachers can use this video to introduce a unit about how human activities impact the atmosphere.
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