New Trek Movie in the classroom

[Nimthim]

I haven't seen this mentioned, but if I missed it I apologze.

In the classrooms where I work (emotional support & autism), we just got the Scholastic Science World News for May 11 and the new Trek movie is featured on the cover. The 4 page article discusses the science of Trek and if the technology is, or ever will, be possible - transporters, warp drive, tricorders, and the sickbay. Great photos from the movie - Kirk & Spock in the transporter, Spock operating controls, Pike on the bridge, sickbay, the Enterprise, and a tricorder, I think. I didn't have time yesterday to read the article completely. The premiere date of the movie is mentioned and this looks placed to capture the attention of the grade 3-6 crowd.

 

[indranee]

very nice! is this available anywhere else?

 

[section9]

I haven't seen this mentioned, but if I missed it I apologze.

In the classrooms where I work (emotional support & autism), we just got the Scholastic Science World News for May 11 and the new Trek movie is featured on the cover. The 4 page article discusses the science of Trek and if the technology is, or ever will, be possible - transporters, warp drive, tricorders, and the sickbay. Great photos from the movie - Kirk & Spock in the transporter, Spock operating controls, Pike on the bridge, sickbay, the Enterprise, and a tricorder, I think. I didn't have time yesterday to read the article completely. The premiere date of the movie is mentioned and this looks placed to capture the attention of the grade 3-6 crowd.

Wow. That's called brutally effective product placement. Right in front of the kids. Bet Paramount paid a pretty penny to Scholastic for that article. Whoever thought that up earned his Christmas bonus.

 

[Nimthim]

This is pretty typical of Scholastic - they try to tie into kid's interests, so I am sure they are open to many such articles. It really does take a serious look at the potential science in Trek - the section on the tricorder examines a mass spectrometer the size of a lunch box and speculates on the possiblity of compacting the technology to Trek examples.
We're teaching it next week - these are kids with issues, so will be to a 7th to 9th grade group, rather than the typical grade range for Science World. I'm looking forward to hearing their take on it.
My 9th grade daughter has always scorned the interest in scifi that her dad and I share, but she has volunteered to take me to see the movie for Mother's Day - and she's excited about seeing it herself - first time she's ever wanted to see a scifi movie, especially Trek.

 

[Nimthim]

very nice! is this available anywhere else?

It might be available at libraries - Scholastic does market to libraries & daycare as well as schools.

 

[Sector 7]

This is pretty typical of Scholastic - they try to tie into kid's interests, so I am sure they are open to many such articles. It really does take a serious look at the potential science in Trek - the section on the tricorder examines a mass spectrometer the size of a lunch box and speculates on the possiblity of compacting the technology to Trek examples.
We're teaching it next week - these are kids with issues, so will be to a 7th to 9th grade group, rather than the typical grade range for Science World. I'm looking forward to hearing their take on it.
My 9th grade daughter has always scorned the interest in scifi that her dad and I share, but she has volunteered to take me to see the movie for Mother's Day - and she's excited about seeing it herself - first time she's ever wanted to see a scifi movie, especially Trek.

It may be off topic, but I just want to say THANK YOU for the work you do. I have a godson who is autistic, ADHD and bi-polar. I know that it takes a very special person to do what you do!

 

[Brent]

Nice, btw I think a lot of Star Trek science is coming true today. Tricorders are one thing that are very real, just not as feature rich as in Star Trek yet. Look at how everyone is walking around with cell phones and media devices that have touch screens now with several features. I mean the iphone alone with the compass app is a perfect tricorder like feature, heh. The military has hand held devices that can detect things. More and more features will be crammed into hand held devices, getting smaller and smaller, and before you know it everyone will be able to tell the heart rate of another person, what something is made of, and a fancy gps to find your way, not to mention communication

 

[Devon]

This is pretty typical of Scholastic - they try to tie into kid's interests, so I am sure they are open to many such articles. It really does take a serious look at the potential science in Trek - the section on the tricorder examines a mass spectrometer the size of a lunch box and speculates on the possiblity of compacting the technology to Trek examples.
We're teaching it next week - these are kids with issues, so will be to a 7th to 9th grade group, rather than the typical grade range for Science World. I'm looking forward to hearing their take on it.
My 9th grade daughter has always scorned the interest in scifi that her dad and I share, but she has volunteered to take me to see the movie for Mother's Day - and she's excited about seeing it herself - first time she's ever wanted to see a scifi movie, especially Trek.

See! They are dumbing it down for the mas....

Oh wait this is a good thing.

 

[Nimthim]

This is pretty typical of Scholastic - they try to tie into kid's interests, so I am sure they are open to many such articles. It really does take a serious look at the potential science in Trek - the section on the tricorder examines a mass spectrometer the size of a lunch box and speculates on the possiblity of compacting the technology to Trek examples.
We're teaching it next week - these are kids with issues, so will be to a 7th to 9th grade group, rather than the typical grade range for Science World. I'm looking forward to hearing their take on it.
My 9th grade daughter has always scorned the interest in scifi that her dad and I share, but she has volunteered to take me to see the movie for Mother's Day - and she's excited about seeing it herself - first time she's ever wanted to see a scifi movie, especially Trek.

It may be off topic, but I just want to say THANK YOU for the work you do. I have a godson who is autistic, ADHD and bi-polar. I know that it takes a very special person to do what you do!

Oh, my, god's blessing on your godson - any one of those conditions makes life a challenge for the child, but all three of those must seem insurmountable some days. I send my fervent hope to him and his family that they have a good program like the one I work with - and we really don't think we're special, we just love what we do.

To swing this back on topic somewhat - a high percentage of the boys in our elementary level classes are very attracted to scifi. Unfortunately, when they ask which one I like and I say Star Trek, I get looks full of pity and maybe a comment like, 'my grandpa likes Star Trek' - I'm thinking this movie might change that a little.