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Teaching Resource: Why Satellites don't fall back to EARTH?

Subject taught
- Physics

Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbXUjeYMx_I

Type of Product
- Videos

Language Skills Developed
- Interaction
- Listening
- Speaking

Transferable/Scientific Skills Developed
To observe the world around us with curiosity to understand at least in part the technology that we use every day.

Description
• The general aims are to develop the observation skills and to stimulate the curiosity of the students, so that they wish to understand and don’t study in a mnemonic way. They must learn to study: to organize their learning, identifying, choosing and using various sources and information. To acquire and to interpret the information in a critical way to form their own opinions. To estimate the scientific credibility of the source and to discern the difference between facts and opinions. To communicate and to understand different languages (daily, technical, literary, scientific) and to use them in different contexts. • The linguistic aims are to teach students a correct scientific language. They will have to read or to watch and to understand a scientific article or video. They will have to use a correct language when they have to explain a scientific topic. • The specific aims are to know different types of satellites and where they orbit, to understand how they work and how they are helping us the our daily life. • The target group age is 16 /18 • Level of competence in English is B1/B2. • The time required to use the resources with the students depends on how much the teacher wants to develop the topic, but it cannot be less than three hours. • The first hour is dedicated to watch the video and to open a discussion with the students to understand how much they know about the satellites and if they are aware that whenever they use for example the cell phone, the television or the internet they exploit the work of the satellites. The teacher will help the students to get to know other types of satellites and how they are used . It is important for the teacher to focus the discussion about the very use that men can make of the satellites. • The students usually have no problem, on the contrary they show a great interest.

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