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Melissa Cholewinski

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I love traveling to warm areas all over the world! So far I've been to Florida, Myrtle Beach, Texas, and California in the United States. I have also visited Jamaica three times ( I love it there!), I've been to Punta Cana and the Bahamas once. I love working with kids and I've always wanted to be a teacher. I started working with kids when I was 17 years old at a daycare! My friend and I opened a home daycare in her house for 3 years, and now I can't wait to have a classroom of my own! I have a puppy named Pierogi! I love playing with him and walking him. He was actually featured in the newspaper recently!

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Sat, Apr 17, 2021 7:46 PM in Modeling a Remote Teaching Lesson on the Nature of Science (NOS) and the definition of a PLANET

Hello Melissa! I also think you are right that it is still fine to teach the mnemonic song to the students. The only way I see it being a problem is that it isn't teaching the students about the dwarf planets out there. My solution to that was to come up with a mnemonic for those as well. These days I feel like we are trying to have kids remember so much that having mnemo...

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Sat, Apr 17, 2021 7:39 PM in Modeling a Remote Teaching Lesson on the Nature of Science (NOS) and the definition of a PLANET

Why is it NOT okay to continue to teach what is in science textbooks if we know the information is outdated/no longer factual? Justify with evidence. Knowing the information is outdated, why is there a need to teach it? Science is always changing and new things are being discovered while old things are becoming obsolete. Teaching the history of science is one thing, but...

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