{"id":1665,"date":"2013-04-19T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:06:48","slug":"fun-friday-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/fun-friday-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday Films!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2013\/04\/hadfieldInSpace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1669\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2013\/04\/hadfieldInSpace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>The school holidays are upon us and while you students are busy with work, fun and hopefully some study, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;ll be times when you think to yourself &#8220;boy, I could sure do with a serving of Science right now!&#8221;. Well you are in luck because someone recently suggested one of these 3 minute films to me and I found myself watching more and more of them. And for teachers, I showed a couple to my class yesterday at the end of the period and they really enjoyed it. They are interesting little snippets that can serve as a good starting point for discussion and only 3 minutes long so not a huge investment of time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/\">http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/<\/a> is the website<br \/>\nThis one<a href=\"http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/films\/78\/you-don-t-know-jack\"> http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/films\/78\/you-don-t-know-jack<\/a> appealed to the students as it is about a 14 year old boy who makes a breakthrough in cancer testing.<br \/>\nMy 10 year old son was particularly fascinated with this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/films\/30\/solar-roadways\">http:\/\/focusforwardfilms.com\/films\/30\/solar-roadways <\/a>where they talk about a new way to &#8220;pave&#8221; the road with solar cells!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;ve managed to watch maybe 1\/2 dozen of the films on here and haven&#8217;t yet found one that I didn&#8217;t think was cool on some level.<\/p>\n<p>Another film site that I&#8217;ve been sent at least 3 times in the last little while is one by astronaut Chris Hadfield on the ISS.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/canadianspaceagency?feature=watch\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/canadianspaceagency?feature=watch<\/a><br \/>\nHe has videos on all kinds of things from making a sandwich in space, to sleeping in space, toothbrushing in space to wringing out a washcloth in space!! Again cool Science of everyday objects and good starting point for discussion! I really hate flying but Chris Hadfield makes me want to be an astronaut it looks like the most amazing &#8220;job&#8221; ever!!<\/p>\n<p>Have a happy safe holiday to all the students and teachers!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school holidays are upon us and while you students are busy with work, fun and hopefully some study, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;ll be times when you think to yourself &#8220;boy, I could sure do with a serving of Science right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/fun-friday-films\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,15,343],"tags":[46391,46392,19288,19290,19287,309,12254,19289,6848],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-teachers","category-general","category-resources","tag-biology-resources","tag-chemistry-resources","tag-clips","tag-discussion-topics","tag-films","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}