Product: Future Is Wild [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Teachers can use this
Realize that no one said this is "real". It's a movie about the FUTURE people.That being said, I teach high school biology and environmental science and I find this to be an excellent and entertaining DVD series. I use it to reinforce principles like: Plate tectonics, Climate patterns, Adaptation, Desert formation, Biomes, Eusocial insect societies, and especially, Evolution. I could go on and on with the concepts that are applicable to this series. I have been using this series for 3 years now and I have yet to have a student complain about the series being boring or too "fake". I have had MANY students ask if this is real, to which I have to remind students that it is set in the future and therefore the animals can't be real but the concepts are real.Why is this applicable to teachers? The DVDs introduce fictional creaures, many of which are absolutely fantastic, and then procede to explain how the amazing things they have come up with are already around on Earth right now, just in different forms. So the series really is about present animals as much as future animals.I use it in high school, but it is just as useful for middle school. Please, if you are a science teacher, you owe it to yourself to see these DVDs. When you see how good a teaching tool they can be, you'll want to purchase these (or get your school media center to purchase them!).