Maria Creighton
Brenau University
GA

I completely agree with both of you. Students need to be allowed to engage and explore the science behind the seasons by creating models. A powerful lesson that encourages my students to look for patterns is using a styrofoam ball to model the Earth, a skewer that goes through the middle of the styrofoam ball to represent Earth's axis flashlight to model the Sun. My students can then make obs...

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Thank you for sharing the article. During these unprecedented times, due to the COVID pandemic, I have had to adjust my instruction to ensure that my lessons encourage my students to social distance. In the classroom, my students are not encouraged to move around but remain at their desks or a designated area of the classroom due to contact tracing. I have always been a firm believer in flexible ...

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The NSTA's Daily Do resource is a resource that I discovered last week that the lessons are engaging for elementary students. More importantly, the lesson plan was easy to implement because the resources were readily available using materials that I already had, questions to guide students thinking as they develop a plan to understand the phenomena, and the scientific background knowledge tha...

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