Thu, Dec 01, 2016 1:21 PM in Energy Lesson Plan for Heat, Light, and Sound
I team taught this lesson in a 3rd grade classroom and they had a wonderful time interacting with the centers and getting out of their seats to complete the activities. They create a lap book surrounding these three forms of energy and experience the forms through 3 student-led centers and 1 teacher-led center. This fosters independence within the students who can self-regulate their actions and h...
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Mon, Oct 24, 2016 7:10 PM in Introducing Science
Always something hands-on! Get the kids involved and have them experience something that will wow them. Let them use all of their senses to learn. It also pulls children when you don't give all of the answers. Let the children explore and use inquiry-based learning to teach them. Good luck with the rest of your senior year in college and your future teaching job! :)
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Mon, Oct 24, 2016 10:41 AM in Classifying Living Vs. Nonliving
If there's any way for you to teach the lesson outside, I would. Maybe if the school has a community garden or has a little area in the front with anything growing. Having children experience that environment of living and nonliving hands on is extremely beneficial for real-world explanations and it's much more literal then showing bringing in objects into the classroom.
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