Friday Videos

Today I have been in a bit of a panic. It is Thursday and in my class on Fridays I try to bring in a video usually having something to do with what we have been studying in class. It isn't a "movie" as the kids would like but a documentary or some sort of TV show corresponding to our subject. For the past two weeks we have been doing Africa. Last week we watched the Biography of the Wright Brothers (nothing to do with Africa). So this week I wanted to find something on Africa. The kids have been asking about the Egyptian pyramids and I was hoping to find something interesting on TV but to no avail. So this evening I went to the local library to see what videos they had that I could show.

They had a series called "Pole to Pole" it is an A and E series that showed in the early 1990's on PBS. One man (and his camera crew) take off at the North Pole and travel to the South Pole. They go through all kinds of countries and the cover much of the continent of Africa. At one point at the equator he shows the spin of the Earth affecting water draining out of a bucket. On one side of the equator it goes clockwise and on the other side it goes counter clockwise. Pretty cool.

I also got a video (National Geographic) on Egyptian pyramids. Now the panic has changed from can I find a video to which one do I show. Oh, the dilemmas.