Films that Teach (Valley News)

Neukom Institute Director Dan Rockmore has organized a program at the local Nugget Theatre to help engage school children in science and math through film.

A series of four movies will be shown over the next few months. Dartmouth faculty will lead discussions following each film. “This is one of those cases of not letting the perfect get in the way of the good,” Rockmore told the Valley News. “Ideally, it would be so powerful to work with a studio ahead of time, while they’re doing their publicity run-up. Imagine with a movie like Hidden Figures how great it would be for teachers to show clips of the movie and then talk with students about the science or the math or the history involved. Then the kids in those classes would be energized to go see a movie that, if it was marketed as an educational movie, nobody would go to see it.”

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