Tuesday, May 25, 1999
Kids' homemade science video wins top award
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
UNION TOWNSHIP — Move over, Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
Kelly Moorman and her 27 fifth-grade students at Hopewell Elementary School have produced their own video, “Science Rules!” that has earned Ms. Moorman and her students the 1999 Time Warner Cable Great Performances Teacher Award, given for innovative use of Cable in the Classroom programming.
Winning the award makes Ms. Moorman eligible for Warner's national award, the Crystal Apple.
On Wednesday, Olympic skier Chris Waddell will present Ms. Moorman with the award, which includes a $1,500 cash prize, a TV and VCR. In a few weeks she will learn whether she won the Crystal Apple award.
“We entered the contest on a whim,” Ms. Moorman said. “The objective was to have teacher and students come up with a creative way to do a lesson. I threw out the idea to my class and they wanted to do a movie.”
The 15-minute video uses skits to teach chemistry concepts like solution suspensions, mixtures and polymers. The students researched the material, wrote the script, did the choreography, gathered scenery, and even included a song by 'N Sync, “All You Ever Wanted.”
“The facts made sense and experiments made sense. That's why we probably got it,” said Todd Mayberry, 11. “It was really a lot of fun, and it wasn't hard if you paid attention in class.”
The hard part for Shawna Clark wasn't the science. It was “getting ready for it emotionally,” the 11-year-old said.
“We were nervous because we thought we would be on TV. I didn't think it would be much fun, but as we got closer I got more pumped. I'm ready for another one!”
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