Retro Educational Technology

Vintage education technology. In the VocabularySpellingCity office, we appreciate the history of educational technology & enjoy viewing previous "revolutions" in edtech. Visitors get to visit the museum. Have retired film strips, educ'l records, or whatever? We might give them a home. Did you use these technologies, were they revolutionary? Comment on the site or tweet to me: @VSpellCityMayor PS. I'm looking for a classic old teacher gradebook, have one?

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Kinetic Potential Energy Song

Here is a fantastic old song about kinetic and potential energy. Enjoy. It's appropriate for elementary school science class. I think it pretty much teaches the lesson. But of course, teaching the lesson is not enough, students must also learn it. Many teachers enjoy showing examples of potential energy such as:

A rubber band pulled taught and ready to shoot
A chair held over a student's head (NOT RECOMMENDED!!!!)