Fri, Apr 13, 2012 9:12 PM in Science steps
I agree with Kathy as well, I participated in a lot of inquiry activities in my university science class and it was very messy. Messy in the sense that science is "spur of the moment" you might be observing one minute you get an idea the next and then all of a sudden you have a prediction. I observed a teacher who had the same problem. She decided to keep it simple in order for the students to tru...
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Fri, Apr 13, 2012 8:51 PM in Excited for Science!
Laura,
I agree with you, I find science to be very intimidating. Before taking a science course at my university I was a wreck (very nervous about teaching science). But now I feel very confident in the subject. Granted I do not know everything there is to know about science but I feel like over time I will master the content knowledge. Thankfully my professor had us (her classes) create an acco...
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Thu, Apr 12, 2012 11:00 PM in Writing in Science
Writing in Science is a huge statement. What do mean when we talk about writing in science? How about we try to identify all the different types of writing we can do in science? Then maybe we can talk in more details about some of the specific pieces.
Some of the types are writing questions, writing predictions. What else? Once we come up with a list we do some more in depth work and figure out...
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