Thu, Oct 09, 2014 9:14 PM in The Creation of the Universe & Religion in Classroom Science
I want to share my personal story about creation and evolution. It actually happened when I was in ninth grade. My social studies teacher assigned a research project about the evolution theory and creation where we needed to compare and contrast through evidence from the sources. I got so into it, that I even read several books of the bible entirely, in addition to spend many afternoons and weeken...
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Thu, Oct 09, 2014 8:01 PM in What Do You Do When You Are Not Familiar With a Topic to Teach
Although I have been a teacher for many years it was not until recently that I became very interested in science education. My first couple of years I managed using the teacher's guides, books and other internet resources to become more familiar with content knowledge I was teaching. However as part of one of my graduate classes for the completion of my science certificate I was required to comple...
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Sun, Sep 28, 2014 5:38 PM in We need more time to teach Science
Science is extremely important and I wish all the school systems across the nation gave science the importance it has. I have been fortunate in a way this year, my Principal finally recognized that the problem the school has in terms of the grade is that they overlooked science in the lower grades therefore the fifth graders lacked the background knowledge needed to completely master the grade lev...
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