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Hi! I am also a preservice teacher at Monmouth University. At my clinical placement this semester, the classroom I was working in also had limited time to teach science. To help work around this, the teacher would include science in different subject areas. For example, while I was observing this classroom, the teacher had her reading units based around spiders and bats. In these units, she would specifically choose books for the students to read that discuss spiders and bats' diets, environments, different types of spiders and bats, and other important characteristics. This allowed students to practice their reading skills while learning about some science through spiders and bats.
In your placement, is there any place where science can be incorporated into other subjects like reading? Therefore, when students are learning social studies, they still learn some science concepts through the readings. For instance, the teacher can include books discussing different habitats or animals found at a location (like a zoo). Suppose students are working on specific skills in reading, such as identifying the main idea or supporting details. In that case, the reading the students are using can be about a topic that is covered in the school's science curriculum. Incorporating activities like this can help include more science into the student's learning without trying to include additional work when the school day is already pressed for time.
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