Wed, Oct 19, 2011 12:25 AM in Five Moons Seen With Binoculars
I am a Graduate student at UMBC and I recently did a project where I had to research one of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede. I found my research very interesting and I did read that with binoculars we could see the moons from earth. For some reason I questioned whether it was true and didn't include it in my presentation. After reading your post I with I had shared this with the class and I will definit...
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Wed, Oct 19, 2011 12:13 AM in Connecting Literature and Science in K-5
I love all of the resources provided because it is so important to be able to integrate science with literature. As it has been previously discussed there is so much focus on reading and language arts that integrating them helps give teachers the time they need to focus on science topics. Science is an engaging subject and there are so many books for young kids that can motivate them for science l...
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Thu, Oct 13, 2011 2:43 PM in Time Management
Thank you so much for this helpful discussion on time management. I am a grad student at UMBC so I am not yet in the classroom, but I can see how this could pose a problem. As a new teacher I will need to be able to plan a lesson while taking time into account. When children are engaged in science discussion it a good sign they are motivated, so disrupting that motivation seems difficult. I think...
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