Sun, Oct 30, 2016 5:46 PM in Addressing Students Misconceptions
I watched a video recently about how a third grade science teacher would, at the end of every lesson, have her students fill out a worksheet based on what they learned. The teacher will collect the handout (not for a grade) and then go through them at home and find her "favorite mistakes" on the worksheet or common misconceptions. The next school day, the teacher would write these misconceptions u...
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Sun, Oct 30, 2016 5:38 PM in Science Notebooks
When doing my field experience hours, I have found that many of my cooperating teachers use a science notebook for each new experiment they do. One of my teachers had their notebooks broken down into sections for each part of the experiment. So, for example, she would have the students write all the vocabulary words used throughout the experiment in one section, their hypothesis for the experime...
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Sun, Oct 30, 2016 5:35 PM in Virtual Conference Discussion: Engaging Students in Science: PreK-6
To engage young learners in science, I have found what works best is being able to connect the science topic to something that the students can relate to or are interested in outside of the school environment. For example, if you are going to do a lesson on habitats, maybe begin the lesson by having the students describe or draw a picture of where they live. This will immediately spark their inter...
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