Teaching with movies is great, and teaching with edited movies is even better. Recently I encountered a website, Teach With Movies, that provides a way to use movies as an effective teaching method. This is a great way for teachers to supplement lesson plans for students K-12:
TeachWithMovies.org offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning Guides to 285 movies. “Learning Guides” are flexible tools for teachers providing background, discussion questions, links to the Internet, projects, and vocabulary lists. They allow teachers to quickly and easily create lesson plans suitable for their particular classes. “Movie Lesson Plans” are more formal and add lectures, student handouts, comprehension tests and answer keys. TeachWithMovies.org Learning Guides cover most areas of the K – 12 curriculum. Use the storytelling power of Hollywood to motivate, inspire, and educate students. Each recommended film contains lessons on life and positive moral messages.
Why use just movies? Let’s go one step further and use edited movies, which are movies where the vulgar language, sexual content, and gory violence has been removed. Family Edited DVDs (the once leading provider of edited movies), has recently stopped producing edited movies. Their website shows that they are closed. However, apparently you can still order the CD-ROM eBook on How to Make Edited Movies. Obviously, they still have some left over inventory that you can also order that may not be available much longer.
By using their how-to guide to editing movies, you can turn those PG movies with vulgar content into movies that can safely be viewed by the whole family.
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Edited movies are awesome. I really enjoy the service provided by Family Edited DVDs over the years. They have done a great job of making the world a better place. I will now order their CD-ROM ebook so that I can edit the PG movies I have in my home.