Fri, Oct 04, 2019 9:24 PM in Pre-Service Teacher: Plant needs resources
Hi everyone!
I'm placed in a Kindergarten class this year and I was recently looking for resources and ideas to teach plant needs. I've only seen planting experiments and worksheets. I think planting is great, but it gets old after a while and I've been looking for more "out of the box ideas" Does anyone have any other ideas that could be interesting and engag...
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Fri, Oct 04, 2019 9:00 PM in Science at home
Hi Hannah,
I think you bring up a great question, but I don't think that science always needs to be an experiment with all kinds of materials. I think science can even just be wonderings, questions, or thinking about solutions. It can be about anything. I think that NGSS is interesting in the way that it is based in inquiry, wondering, and phenomenon. It ties in well with your qu...
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Fri, Oct 04, 2019 8:23 PM in A Trip to the Zoo!
Hi Evelyn,
You could show your students clips from Zoboomafoo episodes! The quality isn't super good, but it's still watchable and definitely interesting. You could also read them books. There are many books about all kinds of different animals, you could start with the ones that your students know or are guaranteed to see at the zoo like lions, elephants, or tigers. You could st...
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