Hello everyone I was wondering how I can make experiments a bit more stimulating for the student's. I don't want the science experiment to be too bland and boring.
Hello Cesareo. I have done a lot of hands on activitys with my students to make it more stimulating. I fell that when students use there hands that they can understand the activite a lot better.
Raegan Barrett
Hello Cesareo, I believe it is a great idea to make experiments more stimulating and fun. A good way to achieve that is to integrate hands-on activities using different types of materials and textures that you believe they are already familiar with but can learn more of.
Making the experiment something where you can involve a real world scenerio that they can relate to and have background knowledge will interest them. Children are always going to be curious so making the science experiments about something they can question and explore.
Hello Cesareo, hands on activitys are alwasy a stimulating option for students. It lets them take ownership over their own learning and discover new knowledge. This can also be done in small groups to incorprate collabration in your classroom which also aids learning.
Sadie Callow
Wartburg College
Hi Cesareo!
A great way for stimulating students is using a minds-on approach to lab activities, it is a great way to get students thinking instead of just doing! By this, i mean require students to think about a phenomena or something that is unknown to them. By allowing students to think, they are more stimulated. If you just give them a list of porcedures to do - they will do it but not actually be stimulated by it! Let the students do the thinking and they will become so much more enagaged.
Brianne Brown
Monmouth University
Brianne has the right idea. Don't give them a procedure to follow, i.e., step-by-step instructions. There's nothing exciting about following a recipe.
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