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As pre-service elementary teachers, we need to become as infofrmed in each content area as we can. We are instructed to take copious amount of math, literacy, social studies, and science classes to be as prepared as we can be before we set foot in the classroom. However, what I've experienced and noticed throughout my undergraduate time in college was that I was asked to take multiple science classes that focused on creating lessons and activities that intrigued young learners. Science is a hard subject for a lot of people, even educators. No matter what, every person is going to have a subject where they thrive and a subject where the don't, and more often than not, that subject is science. It can be hard for educators, especially pre-service educators to cultivate that love for learning in themselves, nevermind thier students. However, the purpose of all of these classes is to try and being the value and the love back into science education. The more we as pre-service educators work to creating engaing lessons and new spins on old topics, the more we can instill a love for science and an innate curiosity in our studenst to want to learn more.
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