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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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 Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: teaching about space exploration |
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in case you haven't heard - the Phoenix has landed - that's the unmanned probe Nasa sent to Mars
the first pictures are back and they are absolutely fantastic!
if you are in a public school or uni, you have a monitor and can share with your class; hakwon, please at least share the website with your advanced students - this is very historical and now with Korea having finally entered the space age more students are aware
Nasa's website is one of the most exciting for teachers, there is just SO much info there -
here: www.nasa.gov
and for the latest pics:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/index.html
share the joy!  |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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VirginIslander
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Penguin Readers has an abridged version of Apollo 13, which is good for higher level elementary and intermediate middle/ high school students.
Buy the book for 5,000 won, make copies for students and have them read a little in class and at home; write an essay on the background and perhaps watch some clips of Tom Hanks in the class. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
See my own blog about this, |
do you just sit around and wait for me to post something so you can post about your website?
do you honestly believe whatever you have can in any conceivable way shape or form possibly compare to NASA's website??? are you for real? 
why don't you stop trolling my posts and get a life - if you want to talk about your stuff, pay for advertising like everyone else.
if you have something original to add to the discussion, then by all means say it and be done with it. but all this about "on my website" is just a bit much, I mean honestly. so what?  |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
| ddeubel wrote: |
See my own blog about this, |
do you just sit around and wait for me to post something so you can post about your website?
do you honestly believe whatever you have can in any conceivable way shape or form possibly compare to NASA's website??? are you for real?
why don't you stop trolling my posts and get a life - if you want to talk about your stuff, pay for advertising like everyone else.
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if you have something original to add to the discussion, then by all means say it and be done with it. but all this about "on my website" is just a bit much, I mean honestly. so what? |
So the guy agrees with you that all this mars stuff is cool and you jump all over him for attempting to help out fellow teachers in the classroom. Nice. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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It's interesting that this week my very, very boring grade 2 HS textbook chapter is about rocketships and space. It's called 'Here come the Rocketplanes' and looks about 15-20 years out of date. I'd love to do a more interesting lesson on the same topic, but just showing pictures and me talking about them eliciting the usual one-word answers doesn't seem like it would be the most productive use of time. I wonder what sort of TEFL activities one could draw from this that would get the kids using some English?
As it is I'm staying only tangentally on topic and doing a lesson on Big Bang - the singers, not the (alleged) beginning of the universe, that is. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Moosehead,
Thanks for sharing the joy!
I posted about some nice EFL friendly, downloadable worksheets/activities I wrote about on my blog, specifically about Mars and the Mission. That's what this messageboard is about -- teaching.
You started this thread but you don't own it -- sorry but that's the fact. (if you don't like others posting on a thread, don't start the thread - make a webpage where people can only read what you write.)
I'll keep talking about my stuff if I feel it helps teachers out there. I also talk about a lot of other "stuff" too and have been around the block both on this board and many other educational sites....
Here's a cool site of a teacher in the Phillipines showing us around his Mars habitat.....I'd love to sit in on one of his lessons!
http://siyensya.com/?p=44
DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com |
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Gamecock
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, wtf Moosehead?
Ddeubel is one of the most helpful posters on this site when it comes to sharing teaching materials and tips...hardly a troll. I was going to award my douchebag of the week award to EDITOR, but now it seems we have another contender!!! |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
It's interesting that this week my very, very boring grade 2 HS textbook chapter is about rocketships and space. It's called 'Here come the Rocketplanes' and looks about 15-20 years out of date. I'd love to do a more interesting lesson on the same topic, but just showing pictures and me talking about them eliciting the usual one-word answers doesn't seem like it would be the most productive use of time. I wonder what sort of TEFL activities one could draw from this that would get the kids using some English?
As it is I'm staying only tangentally on topic and doing a lesson on Big Bang - the singers, not the (alleged) beginning of the universe, that is. |
you don't say what level they are at - I've done word problems focusing on space flight and cargo weight - there's a number of things you could do like that.
you can get there interest started by browsing the many galleries on Nasa's site - the photos are fantastic and never cease to catch the attention of students. usually they start talking on their own after that.
there's also some videos on there, various ones. I've used so much on there. One class a few years back we talked about all the astronauts (their bios are on the website) and I made it clear there weren't any K astronauts.
I've been pushing Nasa's website ever since I've arrived here and shared it in many schools - I was very pleased to see K finally enter the space program.
feel them out with photos first - see how they react - then take it from there.
good luck! |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| So the guy agrees with you that all this mars stuff is cool and you jump all over him for attempting to help out fellow teachers in the classroom. Nice. |
he only agrees as far as posting his own website. I don't appreciate people piggybacking on my posts to promote their own agenda.
if he has something to say fine I don't care - I have a problem with someone putting their weblink on here for free advertising - that's not what this is for.
it's a crock. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
he only agrees as far as posting his own website. I don't appreciate people piggybacking on my posts to promote their own agenda.
if he has something to say fine I don't care - I have a problem with someone putting their weblink on here for free advertising - that's not what this is for.
it's a crock. |
BS. The guy is entitled to refer to his website if he wants. The mods certainly haven't had a problem with it. I don't think the guy was 'piggybacking' on your post either. If anything, he offered more useful information to other posters on this topic. |
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Quack Addict
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| You started this thread but you don't own it |
ha ha ha nice.
By the by...$420 million to look at red dirt upclose...what a freakin' waste of tax dollars. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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That's cool. I wanted an overhead video projector or large TV for visual aids and hope my new job has such equipment.
I had a poster of a NASA astranaut doing a spacewalk above the Earth and they just loved it. Even the Korean teachers had never seen such a thing and were facinated by it. While Korea is one of the most technilogically advanced nations on Earth, space travel and exploration is still a little known fact.
I used American books and they always asked what those pictures are such as space shuttles, moon, Earth, and other things like that. Science is the coolest subject to teach. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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Wow... space exploration!
I guess I'm just a bad teacher, but I'm still working on getting the students to form sentences and use the correct possessive adjective for the pronoun 'you'.
Q: "Have you ever been to another country?"
A: "Jeju-do!"
Q: "Have you ever been to Mars?"
A: "Jeju-do... him Korea crazy cow."
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
Wow... space exploration!
I guess I'm just a bad teacher, but I'm still working on getting the students to form sentences and use the correct possessive adjective for the pronoun 'you'.
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Me too, I'm real boring, I'm working on sentences, 'how do astronauts shit in space?' Yeah, what's that? "Astronauts in the spacesuit dong make'. Nah, that's backwards. You're backwards. This whole country is backwards.
I'd like it if certain students were abducted by aliens. Suddenly a bright light like a thermonuclear elevator shaft appears over the litte bastard's desk and ZIIIIIPPPPPP he's gone for good. Next month he comes back and does a class presentation about all the experiments they did on him. Gross everybody out. |
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