This weekend, over 100 students tuned in from the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center thanks to TEDxBirmingham! The TEDxBirmingham team of organizers, volunteers, and Educator Fellows made this a truly memorable event. In addition to all the volunteers who were there, local organizations were set up in the lobby to engage students in fun activities. Ed Fellow Javacia Bowser from See Jane Write & ASFA, and her husband Edward Bowser from Al.com helped students learn how to cover a TED-Ed event. Jan Mattingly, from Dynamic Education Adventures brought her pet snake. Red Mountain Park conducted interviews with students. Trent Knighton, yo-yo artist wowed students with his unique talent. And the list goes on of folks to thank for making the event so awesome.
Students from Birmingham City Schools, particularly a great turnout from Ramsay High (thank you Jessica Stephenson!) were in attendance. This was a unique opportunity for students from all over the city to gather and learn together. Most exciting was that students got to tune in to Sarah Parcak, local Egyptologist and Professor of Archaeology at University of Alabama-Birmingham. Sarah was the recent winner of the TEDPrize and will be speaking at TED 2016 where she will share her wish and her plans for the $1 million she was awarded to carry out her vision. Last year, some of our GATE students wrote about Dr. Parcak in their archaeology units! Last week's TED-Ed Tuesday was dedicated to a lesson about Sarah and her work. Check it out Here. For the first TEDxYouth@Birmingham event it was a great time. We can't wait for all of the videos from TEDYouth to get published so we can share those with the world and for those who didn't have a chance to tune in. My personal favorite, a ten-year-old girl named Ishita Katyal from India. She challenges us to think about asking students what they want to be when they grow up, because what if they get started on what they want to be... right now? I hope students who attended TEDYouth and TEDxYouth@Birmingham are excited to get started living their dreams today.
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Stone bird bath Open to the public Understanding of recycling The museum is built over a pool Has a cafeteria on campus Ecoscape Resourceful Nature Educational Nine planets and one comet Voluptuous atmosphere Interaction Rings made from wire Observed the garden kNowledgeable tour guide Mosaic on the ground Excellent food New things out the old Tours are appropriate for ages 4 and up Arts and crafts activity Located at Birmingham Southern College Creative exhibits Eradicate using so much water Nutrients Tall treehouse Educates you about trash Rode on a slide that sounds like a toilet Last year some students in Mrs. Waine's class wrote papers during their Archaeology unit about Dr. Sarah Parcak. I brought the papers to Dr. Parcak and she signed them- in hieroglyphics! This week, TED announced that Dr. Parcak is the winner of the TED Prize, a $1 million grant that gives Dr. Parcak a global stage for her work. Dr. Parcak is a space archaeologist, meaning she uses satellite imagery to view ancient civilizations from space. She is often called a modern day Indiana Jones. She is an Egyptologist, but also does work all over the world. And guess what? She works right here at the University of Alabama-Birmingham as a professor of archaeology. She will be speaking at TED Youth in New York City while over 100 students in Birmingham tune in from the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center where TEDxYouth@Birmingham will be held. In honor of Dr. Parcak's recent accomplishment, I've put together this TED-Ed Lesson so that students in Birmingham and beyond can learn more about Dr. Parcak and her work. I hope that all the kids out there in Birmingham City Schools who are interested in science & archaeology take a glance at this lesson and some time to learn more about this exciting field of work! Do you have an iPhone or iPod? Be amazed by this TED Talk by Marco Tempest "The Magic of Truth and Lies (and iPods). Gone are the rabbits and the doves when we have the power of a personal device! "So the type of magic I like, and I'm a magician, is magic that uses technology to create illusions. So I would like to show you something I've been working on. It's an application that I think will be useful for artists -- multimedia artists in particular. It synchronizes videos across multiple screens of mobile devices. I borrowed these three iPods from people here in the audience to show you what I mean.And I'm going to use them to tell you a little bit about my favorite subject: deception." -Marco Tempest Watch as Tempest creates magic with three iPods at TEDGlobal 2011-- Just think of what he could do with an iPhone 6! Malala Yousafzai is the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace prize. As an activitist for girl's education in Pakistan, she was targeted and shot by the Taliban. She survived, and came back stronger than ever to begin a crusade for human rights and global justice. Here, Malala introduces the United Nations' Global Goals program, an ambitious program to combat the world's most pressing problems. This lesson allows students to think about which goals they are inspired by and what they can do about it! Visit the lesson Here.
Thinking of moving to Mars? This TED-Ed Lesson provides a tour of the planet and what makes it a challenging landscape for humans. Mars actually has some elements that are similar to planet Earth, for instance the sand dunes are like those in our deserts, but can be twice the size! NASA is currently working on getting people to the planet Mars, not to live but to explore. Some shots of Mars look like the Grand Canyon, and scientists estimate there was once water running across the planet. What do you think life was like on Mars 4 billion years ago? Learn about what Mars would like if it had water on it. This lesson helps illustrate the Mars environment and how hospitable (or not) it will be for our first human visitors! Explore the lesson Here! GATE students at Green Acres Middle, Jones Valley Middle, Arrington Middle, and Ossie Ware Middle Schools began a Project-Based Learning journey with Cardboard2Code. Cardboard2Code is an innovative process produced by CBiS Education to teach students all about Innovation, Engineering & Computing. These pictures capture students engaged during the INNOVATION (students to collaborate with their partner(s) to generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, and annotated sketches of a cardboard arm) and ENGINEERING (emphasized realizing their ideas through the use of cardboard, scissors, a tape measure, various types of tape, and split pins) components. Cardboard2Code in these middle schools fits in with our STEAM themes for this school year! Students are communicating, collaborating, critical thinking and creating using all of the 21st century skills in this project. Mrs. Green has brought learning to life with Cardboard2Code. Can't wait to see the finished projects!
What happens when you get a bunch of gifted & talented education teachers doing science experiments and science-related art projects with Dynamic Education Adventures' Jan Mattingly? Lots of fun! On Friday afternoon October 9 Jan Mattingly conducted a workshop on doing STEAM in the classroom with inexpensive materials. Jan Mattingly, aka "The Science Lady" does lots of shows for out kids but we wanted to equip her strategies to engage students and light them up for learning! Here the GATE teachers are competing to see who ca build the tallest tower out of marshmallows and toothpicks. They are using critical and creative thinking skills and collaborating. Try this with your students! At the end, measure to see who has the tallest marshmallow structure. Can you guess who won? The afternoon was filled with interesting experiments. We made catapults, UV sensitive bracelets, magnetized artwork, and a scribbling robot. Each activity dealt with a discrete scientific topic that we use in K-8 standards and were fun and engaging. Professional learning should be fun and engaging, and should equip teachers with tools they can use in the classroom. Dynamic Education Adventures has allowed GATE teachers many ways to incorporate hands-on learning in to the classroom. The Science Lady will continue to visit and amaze GATE classrooms and schools throughout the remainder of the year. THANK YOU so much! To learn more about Dynamic Education Adventures, visit their site Here! Today's TED-Ed lesson was created by TED-Ed Innovative Educator Shannon Brake! Shannon has been experimenting with class maker spaces so it is only fitting that she would create this wonderful lesson, which combines poetry, design, art, and creativity! You'll recognize this as the iconic illustration for the cover of Shel Silverstein's famous book of poems. In Shannon's TED-Ed Lesson she allows students to analyze the poem. When asked to dig deeper, Shannon invites students to illustrate their own poem in LEGO and create a video similar to the one highlighted in this TED-Ed Lesson! Check out Shannon's TED-Ed Lesson Here! The lesson is based on the following video by JK Brickworks: |
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