Lauren O'Leary

MD

It seems that the recent trend in elementary schools, for the most part, is to shorten time for subjects like science, social studies, and the arts to allot more time to math and language arts. So my question is, how do you as a teacher combat the shortening of that time to ensure that your students are still getting an engaging and enriching science experience? How do you ensure that you don'...

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Hi!  This experiment is such a fun experiment, because kids of all ages have so much fun doing it! I did this experiment with my preschoolers before and they loved it. Like Emily said, having the kids wear gloves is a really good idea because the bags do get very cold. Also, I would suggest double bagging when it comes to the shaking part, because the bags will get holes or rip due to the...

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Hi everyone! My name is Lauren and I am a preservice teacher at UMBC for elementary education and I was posting to see if there are any educators who have any experience creating a compost garden? I am creating a two week project lesson plan for a 5th grade science class and want to base it around comparing the growth patterns of a regular garden versus a compost garden. Does anyone have any info...

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