Storytelling and Scientific Observation

This article really gets one looking at all the possible scientific reasons and outcomes behind our daily stories. I enjoyed that it discusses how storytelling and modeling it can lead to fu... See More

This article really gets one looking at all the possible scientific reasons and outcomes behind our daily stories. I enjoyed that it discusses how storytelling and modeling it can lead to further scientific observation. Students younger than seven can explain verbally far better than in their writings, so continually prompting about why different things happen can help strengthening these written communication skills. This article could be given out at a staff meeting or in a teacher education program to provide additional ideas for easy ways of making connections in the classroom to what students are observing and then helping connect that to science writing. Educators are reminded to have students go back to those first drafts of an observation and make small conclusions and notations through additional words, pictures or verbally explaining why something might be the way it is. Is the moon only out and visible at night? Can we think of a time that we say the moon during the day? I really enjoyed how this article connects science and writing.