First, before reading the lessons below,
please discover more about our newest
discrepant event lesson, on DVD.
Presentation about Discrepant Event Lesson:
Humanity's Journey
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Models of Teaching, example
Models of Teaching/Instruction
The teaching method used in the DVD movie lesson,
Discrepant Event Lesson: Humanity's Journey,
is based on the work of Bruce Joyce, Marsha Weils,
and Emily Calhoun.
Proceeds from the lesson film,
Discrepant Event Lesson: Humanity's Journey,
will go to The Bruce Cultural Diversity Scholarship.
The scholarship is also funded by a grant from the
Jean and Bill Bruce Foundation for the Empowerment
of Diversity Understanding (FEDU).
Humanity’s Journey
Free Lessons and Resources
Amazon Download Movie:
Edison Effect: Electric Light, The vol 2
Director: The History Channel, Run Time: 70 minutes
Also works with your TiVo DVRs
William C. Bruce
Associate Dean and Professor
College of Education and Psychology
Phone: (903) 566-7048
e-mail: wbruce@uttyler.edu
http://www.hometreemedia.org
Fax: (903) 566-7036
1. Uninhibited, Inquisitive, Adventurous, and Curious.
Kids are natural inventors.
Are kids natural detectives. too?
Kid Inventors Video
FastFocus.TV
3 min 45 sec - Sep 21, 2005
fastfocus.tv
2. Kids Can Invent Video
Help students think creatively
think creatively
NASASciFiles - The Case of the Wright Invention
NASA
58 min 47 sec - Oct 23, 2001
www.open-video.org
To watch it, you will need the Google Video Player.
3. TILT Episode 5 - Problem-based Learning With Technology
Danny Maas - TILT TV
39 min 25 sec - Nov 1, 2005
tilttv.blogspot.com
In this episode, we examine problem-based learning in
the K-12 environment with technology. An overview,
examples, and web resources are included.
Visit TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology http://tilttv.blogspot.com to access links mentioned in this episode.
To watch it, you will need the Google Video Player.
4. TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology
Constructivism, Social Cognition, Brain-based Learning)
and implications for technology
17 min 20 sec - May 29, 2006
tilttv.blogspot.com
5. Smarts
16 min 33 sec - Aug 21, 2006
www.fhponline.org
As the fourth in a series of symposia focusing on the relationship among learning,
creativity and brain function, in 1997, the Foundation for Human Potential,
in conjunction with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, presented a
symposium entitled, Emotional Intelligence, Education and the Brain.
Do your stuents need help with their discrepant events?
1. #1 "The Game's afoot!"
The sleuth diary/map will help your students to
learn details of a discrepant event, such as:
what is a theory?
When you teach using your next discrepant event
give your students a way to manage their
discrepant event lessons.
The sleuth diary/map will also help your students
to learn details, such as:
what is a theory?
Note: All graphics relating to "The game's afoot!"
are free to teachers to use in their classrooms.
Feel free to enlarge graphics into posters
for classroom use.
Please include copyright info.
2.* Look for the movie treat:
A video about Following Clues:
The 3rd World
The first of a planned series of reality adventure programs takes place in Peru.
Join Jerry & Kathy Wills as they trek the incredible Andes mountains and vast
Amazon jungle in search of clues to an ancient worldwide civilization that ceased
to exist about 14,000 years ago.
3. Don't miss the video: NASASciFiles - The Case of the Barking Dogs
How to form hypotheses, collect data, and build data matrices
NASA
56 min 34 sec - Jan 20, 2003
www.open-video.org
NASA Why? Files Video containing nine segments as described below. NASA Why?
Files segment explaining how to form hypotheses, collect data, and build data matrices.
NASA Why? Files segment explaining how bats use high-frequency sound to navigate.
NASA Why
4. Also enjoy the Video: Queen Mary's Garden and Sherlock Holmes Museum.
Discrepant Events
Teaching through Active Learning
Teacher Resources
Note:
Teachers have permission from the authors
and the publishers to use material from the
Bruces discrepant event books, on other Home
Tree Media Web pages.
Teachers also have permission to use graphics
and content from the sleuth pages
for classroom use.
2. A movie about a discrepant event
Victor Zabala
4 min 33 sec - May 19, 2006
3. Video: J. Krishnamurti with Mary Zimbalist, 1984 Conversation
The constant knowing that is learning, not accumulating knowledge, but constant learning, moving, enquiring, exploring, pushing, pushing, pushing. That is not based on knowledge, it is a movement. Like life is a movement.
4. Video: Conversations with History: Science and Politics, with Richard C. Lewontin
UCTV: UC Berkeley
59 min 26 sec - Nov 22, 2004
www.uctv.tv
Conversations with History host Harry Kreisler talks with Richard C.Lewontin about scientific inquiry.
Teaching through Active Learning
Teacher Resources
2. Eight-Year-Old Girl Authors Book
Teaching through Active Learning
Teacher Resources
Expanded Books
3 min 1 sec - Aug 19, 2006
www.expandedbooks.com
Writing prodigy Adora Svitek co-authors her first book
Expanded Books
2. Video: Water Up
Tik L. Liem's Invitations to Science Inquiry
1 min 2 sec - Aug 30, 2006
sciencefix.com
Tik L. Liem's Invitations to Science Inquiry.
3. Profiles in Discovery- S. Jonathan Singer
UCTV: UC San Diego
29 min 7 sec - Mar 19, 2003
www.uctv.tv
To watch it, you will need the Google Video Player.
UCSD's Nick Spitzer hosts eminent biochemist S. Jonathan Singer as they discuss how his long career reflects the interplay of research and teaching in the university,
and discusses the importance that the university's role in education should play in the real world.
Series: "Profiles in Discovery" [Science]
Use the award after your next discrepant event.
Use the sleuth award along with the sleuth
diary/map.
Just click on the link below,
copy the image on the page,
print the image,
and make copies
on a color copier.
Or you can save the page to your desktop,
print, and copy.
Please include our Web address:
www.hometreemedia.org
Amazon Download Movie:
Zone Play 1 Developing Awareness of Space Time
and Orientation
NASA Connect Segment involving students in a classroom activity that...measures shadows and uses geometry to determine sizes of angles. NASA Connect Segmentexplaining questions about Erastothenes, the Earth's circumference, parallel lines, angle relationships,and a transversal. NASA Connect Segment featuring an online activity to show students how to design a planetary observer like the Mars Global Surveyor. NASA Connect Segment explaining surveying and how surveyors use geometry. NASA Connect Segment exploring how the Mars Global Surveyor works and how students survey Mars by using shadows, angles, and geometry. The video also explains how land formations are measured on Mars. NASA Connect Segment explaining how NASA scientists survey Mars with the Mars Global Surveyor. The video also explains aerobraking and how geometry influences this.
2. Video: MILESTONES IN TEACHING - Evaporation
and Condensation
McClochendichter Studios
1 min 35 sec - Aug 27, 2006
Basic Geography lesson using 19th century methods
that really work.
Go to Free Discrepant Event Lesson: Mars & NASA Video about Mars.
Graphic: Optical Illusion.
This graphic plays with your mind something akin to
the way micromanaging plays with the mind.
Micromanaging comes from illusions.
Micromanaging your child,
Parents.
Dr. William C. Bruce writes about,
micromanaging your students,
Teachers.
Also, enjoy a video quiz:
Are you a control freak?
Doris Wild Helmering
2 min 13 sec - Mar 17, 2006
www.DorisWildHelmering.com
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Authors of books:
Mindtronics! and Inquiry Alive!
William C. Bruce
Associate Dean and Professor
College of Education and Psychology
Phone: (903) 566-7048
e-mail: wbruce@uttyler.edu
http://www.hometreemedia.org
Fax: (903) 566-7036
Would you like to know more about our main book authors,
Dr. William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce?
For instance: Dr. Bruce, and his wife Jean,
first authored a discrepant event book entitled: Learning Social Studies Through Discrepant Event Inquiry.
Go to the following URL addresses to learn more about William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce through their blogs,too:
Mindtronics! and Inquiry Alive!
2 books on one CD-Rom
William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce
Discrepant Events take Science and Social Studies to their Highest Level of Meaning
Free Sherlock Sleuth Inquiry Diary
Free Discrepant Event Lesson, Sinking Ships & Video
Do you Micromanage? & Video Quiz
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