Tue, Nov 28, 2017 5:10 PM in Nutrition
Hello everyone!
My name is Vanessa and I am a future elementary school teacher. What I would like to bring to your attention with this post, is the importance of discussing nutrition in your classroom. This topic many times is not given enough time nor attention. As we all know, in the United States there is an epidemic of obesity. If we were able to instill healthy habits of nutrition to our s...
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Tue, Nov 28, 2017 3:21 PM in Art and Science
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My name is Vanessa and I am a future elementary school teacher. I wanted to share a fun experiment that a classmate and I did in our Teaching Science course. We decided to teach about erosion by putting M&M's candy in water, and observing what would happen to the candy with water movement and without it. The students were able to observe that movement of water did work faster on...
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Tue, Nov 28, 2017 2:58 PM in How can you teach science on an Island? Hands On
Hello everyone!
My name is Vanessa Fragiacomo, and I am a future elementary school teacher. I would like to share with all of you an experience I had when I was a missionary Kindergarten teacher in Providenciales, one of the Turks and Caicos Islands. I was there for a year, and many times I would find myself struggling with finding the perfect method for teaching science, since many of my...
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