Sun, Apr 03, 2016 4:43 PM in Engineering Week
Thanks for your post! I am very interested in learning more ways to bring STEM into all my units! I think it would be interesting for the students to study about a topic (like body systems) and then take time to extend the unit to talk about engineering something that would help or make an improvement. I think this idea could be used for any topic we study and it would give the students multipl...
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Sun, Apr 03, 2016 4:21 PM in Science Notebook
I have heard a lot about “Science Notebooks” and I think I use them for two of my “year long” labs that I do with the students, but not sure on how to do the “Science Notebooks” for everything we do in Science? Or is that not the purpose of these notebooks!?
We do a “Plant Lab” three times a year. Our test question is “Which month is it best to grow plants inside?” They come up with their own ...
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Sun, Apr 03, 2016 4:06 PM in No Science in the Classroom
Love the topic and responses! Thanks for the post and all the replies. Reading through the replies, I feel there is combination of all that people are saying throughout every district (lack of time, lack of materials, lack of support, etc.). In my school, I have held on to teaching Science (and the other teacher teaches S.S.) 30 minutes every day. It is not enough time, but it is a constant in...
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