Science Autobiography

Science Autobiography I think my science education happened both inside and outside of the classroom. Even before my formal education started, my mother incorporate science into mine and my siblings’ life. Whether it was baking and talking about the science that happened during it or simple and fun science experiment. This fostered a love for science for me that continued when I was in school. Throughout school I preferred the teachers that were hands on with their instruction instead of the ones that were more instructor based. Meaning the teachers that allowed us to do the experiments and demonstrated what we were learning through the experiments. Versus doing teacher only demonstrations and a large amount of straight memorizing content. Throughout the primary grades I had teacher I enjoyed and some teacher I didn’t enjoy. Overall though science was one of my favorite classes and I enjoy it. Chemistry and environmental science were some of my favorite kinds of science.

Once I moved on from primary grades, I did not have as much experience was taking science courses. The only science course I had to take where ones that were based in education and slightly different than other science classes I had taken. I enjoyed the classes more because they were taught through more of an education

I was put in the position of being a science teacher and creating my own philosophy of how to teach science. In the classroom the students always had access to a handful of science manipulatives. Some of these includes test tubes, beakers, magnify glasses and different kinds of plastic bugs. I tried to do a science experiment at least once a week if not more and tried to pick ones they could help participate in. When doing an experiment with them I tried to have them more prediction, observe things and make conclusion in a way that was developmentally