Thu, Dec 15, 2011 9:20 AM in Dissection anyone?
Amy,
I know you have already gotten a number of responses, but when I taught fourth grade, one of my kids' parents was a professor at a local university. She taught Biology Education classes, and one of her assignments for her students was to go in to the schools and teach a lesson to various ages of kids. She offered to have a few of her college students come in and lead a lesson in frog disse...
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Wed, Dec 14, 2011 10:05 PM in Excited for Science!
I teach a 5th grade special education collaborative class, and in my last co-teacher training meeting, we learned a great vocabulary strategy that helps all kids. The student is given the word and definition, then has to come up with a key word that sounds like the vocabulary word, then draw a picture that incorporates the sound and the actual defintion in it. So, for example, for the word angio...
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Tue, Dec 13, 2011 9:35 PM in Why are teachers afraid to release control of inquiry science to their elementary students?
Kathy,
One example of a lesson that involved me releasing control was right in the beginning of the year when I moved to fifth grade and had my students reviewing the steps of the scientific method. Now, as we know, there are countless "canned" experiments out there that clearly go through each step of the method, step-by-step. However, after reviewing the steps of the method and having the s...
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