Tuesday, October 28, 2008

What is a Planet?

media.skyandtelescope.com
The podcast I chose to watch was from ages K-5 titled, "What is a Planet." The video podcast discussed the number of planets found in the solar system. The thing they found was hard to classify as a planet because of certain characteristics. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director, the count of planets in the early 1800s was greater than it is now. After finding all these planets they came to the conclusion that they had actually found an asteroid belt. Most of the document talks about a planet called Series that turns our to be an asteroid along with the well known "planet," Pluto.

I think podcasts like these are very important in our education today. They do not only teach learning through listening but there types of podcast are short videos that broaden our knowledge about things we would have never learned. I think this podcast was very interesting and used by any age but especially younger children because it is explained very easily. To check out more podcasts like this you can search in the iTunes Store.

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