Megan Hardesty

USA

Student engagement can be a very tricky thing to encourage. I believe that the first step is creating strong student relationships. When students feel comfortable with you as a person, mentor, and friend, they are more likely to contribute to conversations and activities. Find out their interests and cater to them. Discover their different preferred learning styles. Vary your daily activities. Do...

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I love the concept of integrating technology into a science classroom! One very important idea that my science methods professor has presented this semester is the idea of interactive virtual notebooks. Rather than giving students pens and packets of paper in which to fill out their observations, theories, and evidence, you can create virtual interactive notebooks on chromebooks or iPads dependin...

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I feel that one of the best ways to keep students engaged in long-term science (or other content area) projects is to assign jobs, as well as to keep introducing new concepts related to the idea over time. For example, as the seasons change, ask students to compare their own plant growth to the different plants that pop up throughout differing seasons - such as tulips in the spring and mums in th...

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