Wed, Apr 20, 2016 11:51 AM in Getting girls involved in Science
Some tips to getting children involved in science activities is to make sure that it is hands on. Every child likes to put their hands on anything and if you can make it a learning experience then it is a plus. Children love having fun and science is probably the funnest subject there is. You can create so many things to get the point across without ever losing the attention of the students. As fo...
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Wed, Apr 20, 2016 11:33 AM in No Science in the Classroom
Hi I'm Carolina Lopez, and I am currently still in my junior year of College. Throughout my field experience, I was able to notice that the science instruction ranges depending on the teacher. I believe that it is a rather difficult subject to get children across in, mainly, because they don't get tested as much so they choose to just ignore it and focus on Reading and Math for example. Other teac...
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Wed, Apr 20, 2016 10:56 AM in Teaching Science to Kindergarten in a Short Time Frame
I definitely agree that 15 minutes is not enough to teach a complete and thorough science lesson. Unless it's like a quick explanation over something that has already been discussed or something to set off the topic then 15 minutes should be enough. But when you mix science with reading or math you kill two birds with one stone and most of time it ends up being more interesting and it grabs the a...
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