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CAS project teaches science education through animation

One alumnus sought a way to explain the basics of entering the science fair through the magic of illustration. IB student Kevin Temmer created a fifteen minute short animated film to present students, at the middle school level, with the fundamentals of creating the perfect fair project. The miniature masterpiece took Temmer over 50 hours to complete.

The video is featured on many websites for educating young scientists, including National Geographic Kids and The National Science Foundation Knowledge Network. For more information on this story and Kevin, please visit the site of the original article, found on NASA’s education page here.

Do you have a CAS project you’d like to have featured on the blog? Share your hard work with us, and we’ll share it with the IB alumni community at large.

 

 

Posted 13 Sep 2011 by Valerie Thomas in Spotlight on IB alumni

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  • M Kumar

    This is amazing to see that a student can really think of something like this. I remember experiencing such fascinating ideas in my older schools like Indus and TISB in Bangalore where i served as CAS coordinator, I will share something equally interesting after speaking with my present school CAS coordinator Jeremy.
     

    • Anonymous

      I’m looking forward to seeing what you have to share! I would think being a CAS coordinator would be a very fulfilling position with a lot of great stories.

  • info

    Cute. The problem is, many public schools no longer run science fairs, at any level. I also would have liked the creator of this video to have referenced the process as The Scientific Method. As a parent who founded and chaired an elementary science fair in my district, I can tell you a tremendous amount of work goes into the organization and production of the fair itself. Union teachers will no longer do this without an additional stipend. 

    • Anonymous

      I think the applications of this video, teaching how to assemble a science project, reach further than specifically a science fair setting, though of course it is the identified focus of the short film. That’s fantastic that you began a fair in your district! I’m sure your hard work did not go unappreciated.

    • Tpctao01

      Not all union teachers…  Most union teachers I know still do lots of things outside the school day for children…