Mon, Dec 09, 2019 4:17 PM in How to increase student creativity in Science?
Hello! I'm Josie and I'm a preservice teacher at the University of Northern Iowa. During my time as an emerging educator, I took a class called Arts Integration, which focused on bringing the arts into content driven lessons to boost creativity and learning! Our content focus was science, specifically focusing on ecology and keeping our planet healthy and clean. I co-taught in a group to ...
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Mon, Dec 09, 2019 4:09 PM in What's your favorite science topic to teach?
My favorite science topic that I've taught has been Inheritance and Environment in 3rd grade. The purpose of this unit was to get students to understand that traits can come from inheritance, the environment, or a combination of the two. The students were given a situation of a wolf born from one pack but growing up with a neighboring pack. As the students studied this wolf, they were given m...
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Mon, Dec 09, 2019 4:00 PM in Making science fun
Sarah, I am a preservice teacher at the University of Northern Iowa, and I am also always trying to make science more engaging for students. This semester I had multiple opportunities to teach science; I taught lessons in Kindergarten, 5th grade, and 3rd grade. In my third grade classroom, I worked with the curriculum AmplifyScience. It is relatively new and expensive, so many schools have not ad...
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