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David Michl
Kent State University- ADED
OH

Hello! I'm David Michl, an Integrated Sciences major from Kent State University. I'm finishing up my degree and will be entering student teaching. Although my degree allows me to teach almost everything on the scientific spectrum, I most enjoy Earth and Biological sciences. The final goal is to graduate and one day have my own classroom of students who appreciate science as much as I do.

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Fri, Nov 17, 2017 11:24 AM in Explicit Reflection

Pamela - Some of these are great! I went through the 14 Reading Strategies, and believe that some of them will work for my students. They are pretty short on the attention scale, but some a lot of these strategies are concise. They like the idea of being able to write down any concerns of confusion from the lesson at the end of class. Thank you very much! Ruth - self-reflection is a powerful to...

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Fri, Nov 03, 2017 12:34 PM in Explicit Reflection

Hello! I'm an Integrated Sciences major from KSU who is currently in their practicum. I'm placed in a 7th grade science classroom, and will be teaching a unit on Nature of Science in the coming weeks. A large part of my unit is having students reflect on how NOS was used in the lab/demonstration by identifying key details that exemplify specific elements of NOS (empirical, tentativeness, subjectiv...

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Thu, Nov 02, 2017 8:27 PM in Nature of Science Integration

Thank you very much! A lot of these resources are quite good, and I've used a handful of them over the last two weeks when finalizing some lessons. Thank you so much for the help!

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Living in the Weather

Fri, Nov 03, 2017 1:09 PM
Atmosphere Basics

This SciGuide is great! I'm working ahead a bit and am preparing to teach a unit centered around the atmosphere in the spring, and was looking for a bit of a refresher on the material. I was looking for specific lessons based around convection of air (and the effects of atmospheric convection), and the lab that was included did an excellent job of both describing the concept, as well as putting into a lab context that students will enjoy and understand. I feel as if a lot of the activities included do a good job as being an introductory piece to the content.

NOS Collection

Mon, Oct 23, 2017 10:18 PM
NOS Context

These pieces focused primarily on what Nature of Science can be defined/contextualized as and how to effectively integrate Nature of Science (NOS) into your classroom curriculum. One of the common aspects to each piece was to outline some of the key aspects of NOS: bias of what’s needed of science, subjectivity of science, empirical nature of science, no single scientific method, creativity needed for problem solving, tentative nature, and based upon gathering understanding. The other common aspect to the articles was teaching NOS through hands-on activities and experiments, leading to students building their own experiences, rather than being told/taught what NOS entails.

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