Thu, Oct 20, 2011 10:45 AM in Making Science FUN!
Hi everyone,
I agree with those who said science was NOT their favorite subject in school. I always approached science with hesitation because I did not feel "smart" enough to understand the material. Therefore, I never fully gave myself the chance to learn. I hope to change this in my students. I am embarrassed to say it has taken me until college to fully get over this reluctance to learn sci...
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Sat, Oct 15, 2011 6:16 PM in New Astronomy Class
I am a senior Elementary Ed. major at UMBC. Flavio Mendez has been visiting our class the past month and has brought great ideas to the table and has personally, instilled a fascination of astronomy in me that didn't exist beforehand. I want to talk about an activity that we recently did in class.
The link to the assignment is below:
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/discuss/default.aspx?tid=6...
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Sat, Oct 15, 2011 6:06 PM in The Solar System
I agree with Eunice- The Invent an Alien project was a great way to learn about what comprises our solar system. As mentioned, each student was assigned a planet, moon, astroid, etc. and had to make a 3-d model representing their assignment's features. I had Saturn and created a giant alien that was a yellow-brown color, had rings, a helium balloon, ice cube trays and so on. Students can be assign...
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