Ashley Vogel
UMBC

Hi Maureen, That sounds like an awesome idea! Definitely a fair share of work but I think it would be feasible, especially if we want to keep the students from missing out on a lot of valuable Science and Social Studies experience. I was actually going to ask about the whole integrating subjects idea but after reading your post, you seem to have a great strategy going! Integrating the subjects ...

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Hi Lauren, Last spring I volunteered in a Kindergarten classroom and the kids went on a nature walk in the woods near the school. The point of the lesson was to identify signs of life/springtime and the kids got to take their own pictures that the teacher later made into a slideshow. They found caterpillars, sprouts emerging from the earth, and various other things in nature and it really capti...

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I think it would be best to provide some guidance but let the kids choose their own topics for the most part. You could give them an example of a topic and the types of questions they'd want to ask while providing a broad outline of general science categories to choose from. Once they have a baseline to work with, it'd probably be easier for them to come up with a more concrete topic of their own....

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