Sat, Jun 09, 2012 8:47 PM in What Does Inquiry Science Look like in Elementary Classrooms
Kathy,
I agree that the last 3 E's could get overlooked due to the excitement during the explore portion of a lesson. It might be difficult, but maybe the way that could be solved would be to try to incorporate the last 3 E's into the explore portion, or continue the experiment into another class period to make sure those last 3 E's get discussed?
Inquiry to me is hands-on learning where chil...
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Sat, Jun 09, 2012 8:33 PM in Encouraging Girls into Love of Science
It is important that we break the stereotype that men are the only people interested in Science. Dr. Sparrow, the "Draw a Scientist" activity you did with our class in the beginning of the semester was very enlightening. I, like the other students, had the stereotypical view of a scientist (crazy hair, male, lab coat), which was broken when you showed us other types of scientists. Girls need to re...
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