I found a catchy (aka irritating) song which goes through the first ten elements, and one of my Year 9 classes has started to join in (and even ask for it as a "treat" at the end of lessons!) However, I think that the following video trumps the lot, if only because of the animations. I'm tempted to try and learn it myself...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Having Fun...
I'm still incredibly busy, but I do like to try and liven up my Science lessons with a little light entertainment. A few years ago - in the era before YouTube - Tom Lehrer's Periodic Table Song was a rarity, because very few teachers could sing it right through (I did have one colleague who went from class to class as a favour to all of us!) Now everyone knows it, and it's rather dated, not least because 15 new elements have been disc-aaar-vared (and details duly sent to Haaar-vard.)
I found a catchy (aka irritating) song which goes through the first ten elements, and one of my Year 9 classes has started to join in (and even ask for it as a "treat" at the end of lessons!) However, I think that the following video trumps the lot, if only because of the animations. I'm tempted to try and learn it myself...
I found a catchy (aka irritating) song which goes through the first ten elements, and one of my Year 9 classes has started to join in (and even ask for it as a "treat" at the end of lessons!) However, I think that the following video trumps the lot, if only because of the animations. I'm tempted to try and learn it myself...
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Oh, How wonderful !!!
Had me singing along.
I'm now up to Oxygen. . .
Wonderful!! And I'd imagine the teenage boys in the class would get a bit of a snigger when it comes to Silicon :)
Well, I would have too, but then they didn't have fab videos like that in 1974. Or indeed, in my school, many modern teaching methods, where the science lab had been built pre-WWI and the lower part of the windows had the school crest in stained glass which gave the place a chapel-like gloom, unrelieved by the bunsen burners which worked intermittently, if at all.
I'm afraid that I also sniggered at silicon - basically because it's the first thing that comes to mind when discussing uses of the element... silicon chips are so passé!
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