Tue, May 21, 2019 5:59 PM in Pet in the classroom
I love the idea of a classroom pet. My cooperating teacher, who teaches fifth grade science, has pet fish. In order to get all of the students’ opportunity to spend time with their class pets, she gives the students jobs. She has a student feed them, observe changes from day to day, turning on and off the lamp, etc. These jobs are on rotation allowing each student the opportunity to interact with...
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Mon, Jan 14, 2019 12:24 PM in How do we get students interested in Science?
Hello,
I found that a way to get the students interested in lessons in general, especially science, is to pretend that you love this lesson. If you know from precious years that students struggled or were bored with a certain topic, work hard on making the lesson interesting! Also, it would help if you introduced the subject by saying, "this is one of my favorite lessons of all time!"...
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