Watching Movies Can Teach You Science

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    • Publish Date: Oct 27 2017 6:13PM
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    • Updated Date: Oct 27 2017 6:13PM
Watching Movies Can Teach You Science

Scientific errors in movies — from impossibly large tsunamis to caverns in the Earth's mantle — can be used to teach science students, making them more interested in classes and fostering a healthy sense of scepticism, experts say

By training students to spot the errors and seek out true explanations, scientifically inaccurate disaster movies can be incorporated in classroom lessons on tectonics, Earth's interior, and geo-physical data analysis.

"Scientists have a choice. We can complain about all the horrible mistakes that are in a lot of movies, or we can say, 'this is a really great opportunity to get the class interested'," said Seth Stein, professor at Northwestern University in the US.

There is no shortage of scientific unlikelihood to choose from, researchers said.

In the 2003 Hollywood movie The Core, for example, a team of "terranauts" venture into Earth's core inside a vessel made of "unobtanium," where they encounter gaping voids in our planet's interior and crash through fields of sparkling, jagged minerals.  The 2004 television miniseries "10.5" portrays destruction brought on by an earthquake of an absurdly large magnitude.

Caverns and the minerals shown in the movie could not exist at those depths and pressures, nor would an M10.5 earthquake strike our planet, researchers said. By identifying these errors and learning why they are inaccurate, students get an entertaining way to connect with their inner skeptic — a vital trait for young scientists in training, Stein said.

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Om Chaturvedi RCTS Pmm rotary school

By my sense Watching movie can''t teach us SCIENCE ,but it can give us an Idea about discoveries and this ideas creates a click in the mind of we students , which leads to new and rare discoveries or inventions.

Arthi Anand Kennedy High The Global School

Well, it happened to me once. But the mean was not a movie, it was by a book. In Heroes of Olympus, when Leo finds the Archimedes Sphere, I don''t know what triggered my brain but I started to understand concepts related to Archimedes very easily though I was very bad in physics and it took me no time to learn the Archimedes Principle

A.FAZIL MOHAMED Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

This is really true...Movies like tron,Pacific rim has taught people about the future science!!!

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