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Darla Quiroz Darla Quiroz 580 Points


What is one way a teacher can keep a classroom very engaging allowing students to have fun but also learn?

Nathaniel Siler Nathaniel Siler 2480 Points

The most basic answer to that, specifically in science, is to make sure that you are doing labs/activities/experiments as often as you can. When I work with starting teachers in my division, I always challenge them to start out with a new course doing a lab/experiment/activity one out of three classes, and by their third year teaching a science course, I challenge them to have half of their classes to be labs/experiments/activities. 

Here's a link to the PDF that I always make mention of to the new science teachers in my division. It may have been written on a typewritter, and the diamgrams may be very two-dimensional, but you won't find a greater collection of relatively simple activities for science:

https://www.showmethephysics.com/home/links/techStuff/TikLiemScientificInquiry.pdf

I hope that gets you started, 

-Nate

 

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