Sun, Jun 04, 2023 11:21 AM in Teaching Controversial Topics in Science
First of all, I discuss with my students that these are required learning objectives in our curriculum. Then we discuss that they are important topics based upon scientific discovery and not the emotions surrounding those discoveries. However, we do discuss those emothional aspects when appropriate. I also like to let my students know that there is no way they may have an intelligent conversation...
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Sun, Jun 04, 2023 11:03 AM in Engaging students through STEM activities
I like to use the bottle ecosystems in my high school classes to help my students learn about scientific research but this could easily be adapted for any grade level and many different STEM activities.
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Sun, Jun 04, 2023 10:48 AM in Teaching/Learning about evolution before genetics
Our district will start teaching Ecology and Evolution before cell biology and genetics this coming school year. I am wondering how others who have taught in this order have dealt with teaching evolution before students have had any genetics curriculum.
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