Give me the magic youtube video

Amy just stepped into my office to discuss a prevalent theme in the Energy 1 - Personal Energy Understanding Narratives. She is noticing that many of the teachers are mentioning a desire for specific prompts/demos/videos to catalyze student engagement with energy ideas. I think I can empathize with the teachers on this one. The level of engagement and productive discourse in our Energy workshops is consistently very impressive to me. I would like to see similar engagement in my energy course for college freshmen which begins tomorrow. Part of me is looking for just the right prompt/demo/video to spark this engagement. Unfortunately, another part of me knows that the prompt is only a small piece of instructional context which enables excellent engagement and discourse. Productive discourse depends on a wide array of subtle and elusive factors that characterize the learning community. Certainly, one of the most significant factors is the learners themselves. Teachers happen to be a group which is pre-disposed toward engagement with the learning process. College freshmen will be different, pre-college students will be different. Nevertheless, I believe we can identify a number of coherent and generalizable strategies for creating and nurturing a climate which is conducive to production scientific engagement. This is a significant goal of the teaching seminar this coming academic year.