Sun, Oct 25, 2020 4:19 PM in Uncovering Students Ideas About Inherited Traits
This article really opened up my eyes to the way teachers look at how to teach their students about offspring. This article expressed that by the grade level of fifth-grade students should know that traits are passed on from both parents. This article explains that baby mice activity should be introduced in grade 3 to introduce some ideas about offspring and traits. This article then states that ...
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Mon, Sep 28, 2020 12:24 PM in Force, Motion and Energy
I was very impressed with this article. It not only is explained what force, motion, and energy are, but it gives an activity to actually show the students. This activity with the wagon represents energy by showing the students the wagon rolls away on its own. What I would also like to incorporate with this activity is explaining to the students that force, motion, and energy occurs all the time ...
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Wed, Sep 23, 2020 11:23 AM in Forces and Motion
This journal article turned out to be very helpful to me as a future teacher. This article made it clear to me that a lot of science teachers struggle to teach the students about science topics because they are "too abstract." The author of the article states " that children are already constructing their understanding of science concepts such as, force and motion throughout their ...
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