Alexandria Adams
Oklahoma State University
OK

Scope on Safety: Essential First Aid for Science Teachers

Wed, Nov 09, 2016 9:30 PM
First-Aid

I really enjoyed reading this article because it gave me some great insight on how to deal with first-aid procedures in my future classroom. First-aid is something that each teacher needs to receive training on, but oftentimes schools cannot afford to pay for the training needed. This article does an excellent job briefly explaining the best ways to approach certain injuries that may arise during science labs or experiments. I would recommend this article to any teacher just to briefly refresh themselves on the importance of first-aid knowledge within the classroom.

Scientific Journals: A Creative Assessment Tool

Tue, Oct 25, 2016 8:56 PM
Science Journals

I think that this article was extremely insightful when it came to explaining how to set up science journals within the classroom. I like how the author gave many specific examples of how she uses the science journals within her classroom as well as what unit she usually starts them on. I think that science journals are an excellent tool and find them helpful even now being a college student. I want to be able to take this article's information and incorporate it into my future classroom someday. The way the author explained setting up science journals and how to use them makes me want to follow her lead someday in my own classroom.

A Menu of Options

Sun, Oct 16, 2016 3:01 PM
Menu of Options Review

A Menu of Options is a great read when wanting to know more about how to help your students work in their science notebooks. I like how the author went step by step on how she has her students work in their notebooks. I think that scaffolding is a great way to help students get used to how to properly write their entries for their notebook. Without scaffolding, we cannot expect all students to know what teachers expect from their entries. Notebooks are extremely important for science so that students can refer back to their previous entries. I think that this article was very useful in helping me to understand how to use this concept in my own classroom. I would definitely refer back to it in the future.