Kassy Pointer, B.A., B.Ed
I am a recent graduate of the University of Lethbridge's Education Program.
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During my final teaching internship, my Professional Inquiry Project (PIP) was to incorporate science fiction in order to better illustrate Science 20 curricula and to foster critical thinking skills.
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Click, "Read More" to find out how I undertook this project.
Units at a Glance
Unit D: Biology
(Changes in Living Systems)
In this unit, we thematically focused on the potential side effects of the actions of Thanos, in Marvel's 2018 movie, The Avengers: Infinity War.
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We analyzed how living systems may be affected by apocalyptic-like events, and culminated our learning by completing the performance task, The Apoca Project, where students researched animals that they would like to utilize as a primary food source/secondary resource, in the event of a movie-level apocalypse.
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Unit C: Geology
(The Changing Earth)
In this unit, we embraced the highly popular cinematic topic of earth sciences in order to critically analyze several movie clips, as they relate to geology, as a means of review.
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We examined movies such as: The Core (2003), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Fantasia (1940), Jurassic Park (1993), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Timeline (2003), Deepwater Horizon (2016), Dinosaur (2000), San Andreas (2015), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Ice Age (2002) and Kingsmen: Secret Service (2014).
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Unit A: Chemistry
(Chemical Changes)
In this unit, we took a more thorough approach by critically analyzing the chemistry in only 2 movies: Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and October Sky (1999).
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Each movie was watched more in-depth and was analyzed critically to illustrate accuracy and feasibility of the topic at hand.
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Of greater focus was that of more explicitly teaching on the value of critical consumption of media.
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