Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
In a New York City classroom, teachers use rap songs to teach complex science. Playlists are used as a metaphor to convey natural selection, and students compose raps songs to reinforce concepts. Ray Suarez reports on the effectiveness of this strategy and interviews hip-hop legend (and science geek) GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Duration: 8 minutes (00:08:12) Publishing date: 2013-03-27; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —