The presentations are usually half an hour or an hour long. But it's amazing how much of a feel you can get even in that time.
Part of my philosophy is also that the Space Place is more to be an experience than an infodump. Though we do include a lot of information with the presentations, a lot of it is performance, and just getting them interested in it with the cool stuff you can see in the dome theater or the sphere or whatever. So I try to provide information understandably, but also figure that I'm more providing the exciting parts and the teachers can fill in the blanks (some better than others, true ...).
And I've had a few kids have a "WOW I GET IT" moment, or come up and ask a lot of questions. It IS awesome!
Yeah, nobody recognzes that gifted kids are SPECIAL ED and have their own unique challenges. If you try to present it that way people just think you're trying to humblebrag.
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Date: 2014-11-10 03:30 am (UTC)Part of my philosophy is also that the Space Place is more to be an experience than an infodump. Though we do include a lot of information with the presentations, a lot of it is performance, and just getting them interested in it with the cool stuff you can see in the dome theater or the sphere or whatever. So I try to provide information understandably, but also figure that I'm more providing the exciting parts and the teachers can fill in the blanks (some better than others, true ...).
And I've had a few kids have a "WOW I GET IT" moment, or come up and ask a lot of questions. It IS awesome!
Yeah, nobody recognzes that gifted kids are SPECIAL ED and have their own unique challenges. If you try to present it that way people just think you're trying to humblebrag.