Library Journal, August, 2008
Freeze, Freeze, Fry: Climate, Past, Present and Future. 2 hrs. ISBN
978-0-9801729-2-8.
An original classroom and community-friendly learning experience, this series profiles individual scientists who offer a unique vantage point and an elegant, succinct, and understandable real-world view of the converging forces of environmental and planetary change that challenge civilization as never before. Filmed at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts, the series begins with Freeze, Freeze, Fry, on Daniel P. Schrag, director for the Center for the Environment at Harvard. This two-hour segment is utterly fascinating, with Schrag in a live classroom, complete with inquiring high school students, graphs, field photos, satellite images, and more. Schrag's explanations of the history of climate change and global warming are surprisingly engaging and comprehensible.-LaRoi Lawton, Library & Learning, Resources Dept., Bronx Community Coll., CUNY
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Recommends the Classroom Encounters Series!
"This video is easy to use and incorporate into the classroom. The DVD is clearly divided into chapters that can be used individually to augment the classroom discussion. It could also be used to help the teacher become more aware of current issues and discoveries in global change today."
The full review of Freeze, Freeze, Fry was published on the NSTA Recommends website at
http://www.nsta.org/recommends/ViewProduct.aspx?ProductID=18156
The prestigious American Library Association published its positive review of Freeze, Freeze, Fry in its widely circulated magazine, Booklist, in the Focus on Science and Technology December 2007 issue.
Booklist December 1, 2007, Page 62
Freeze, Freeze, Fry: Climate Past, Present, and Future
2007, 1.5 hr. Midwest Tape, DVD, $50 Gr. 9-12"In the first segment of a three-part program filmed at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts, Daniel P. Schrag, a professor at Harvard University, presents a lesson on global warming to a group of very bright high-school students. Schrag, a paleoclimatologist and geochemist, focuses on the history of climate change from the formation of the 3earth to present times. The graphs, field photos, satellite images, art-work, and terminology are sophisticated, yet his explanations are surprisingly accessible and easily grasped by the eager students. In a second section, students interview the professor about his career as a scientist and his memories of high-school science classes, and in the final segment, Schrag answers a teacher's request for tips on integrating science into lessons, stimulating students, and encouraging science as a career choice. Frequent chapter breaks allow teachers to zero in on pertinent segments and give flexibility to this program, which is a useful classroom resource." -- Candace Smith
School Library Journal Reviews
Freeze, Freeze, Fry, October, 2007 Issue"Dr. Daniel P. Schrag, geochemical oceanographer, paleoclimatologist, and Director of the Center for the Environment at Harvard University, presents the third program in the series. It is comprised of three segments which include the classroom encounter, the student interview, and the teacher interview… Thirty-nine topics covering planetary changes ranging from the greenhouse effect to coral reefs are presented. Earth's thermostat, ice ages, hurricanes, ocean cores, global winds, ocean conveyor belt, climate records, and alternative energy are among the topics discussed. Dr. Schrag includes the latest scientific discoveries and concerns related to global change in one to eight minute chapters which also can be accessed individually. The presentations are supplemented with photographs, graphs, charts, maps, satellite images, and original illustrations. The last two parts of the program feature two question-and-answer sessions with students, the classroom teacher, and the scientist. Students interview Dr. Schrag concerning his position on current science issues, and the teacher's interview is centered on ways to motivate curiosity in students and integrate the sciences"… -Linda Teel, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
