Thu, Oct 29, 2020 1:05 PM in Heredity in the Curriculum
This is great!! I think elementary age students these days are very intrigued as to why they look more like a certain parent than the other. I saw a picture the other day of a direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln side by side with Lincoln himself, and the resemblance is uncanny. It was like they just recolored a photo of the president himself. Students want to know why they look the way they do a...
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Wed, Oct 21, 2020 1:02 PM in Teaching students to observe using all of their senses
This project will be a wonderful way to connect the students to the content because, as the article states, science learning is sometimes removed from the outside of the classroom and it's can be hard for the students to relate to the materials. Bringing something like this project into the lesson will help students observe exactly what we are teaching. This experiment will allow the students...
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Wed, Sep 23, 2020 8:27 PM in Prospective Teacher Thoughts
I have to say, reading this article actually gets me really excited to start teaching science. This article outlined perfectly how science class should be conducted. I will definitely be saving this for the future. The way the author starts and keeps the conversation engaging to the students is just perfect and what I aspire to do in my classroom. I want to be able to make the content real for my...
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