I have very few memories of science classes until my freshman year of high school. Up until high school, my only real memories of science are ones that involve hands-on experiences. I remember making lip balm in my third grade science class. In sixth grade, I remember learning about acids and bases and the pH scale for the first time. When we learned about acid and bases and pH, I remember using small trays and placing various liquids and then testing the pH using pH strips. I vaguely remember dissecting a frog leg and a sheep’s eye in the seventh grade. In the eighth grade, I made a brochure about the moons of Jupiter.
In high school, I had two science teachers. One teacher taught life science; the other taught chemistry and AP chemistry and AP environmental science. The life science teacher was about coloring activities, word searches, and watching videos, with a few labs and experiments every now and then. The chemistry teacher was mostly about labs who was extremely passionate about science. However, he was not always clear with his explanations and his tests were
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I have fun, exciting moments from elementary science, and somewhere along my schooling science went from fun to stressful. However, I do not believe that I enjoyed science in elementary because of the hands-on activities. I believe I enjoyed elementary science because the teachers I had actually taught in a way that I understood. In high school, the teachers were very intelligent, but they discussed topics in a way I could not understand. To me, a great teacher may not know all of the answers, but he or she knows how to explain ideas and concepts to their students. They understand what level their students are on and meet them there. They do not connect with just the few students who speak their language and ignore the rest of the
I never liked science much, and old Doc just makes it lousy. I mean why should I care what number an element is or what an electron does? Really, what does that do for me? It's just the schools idea to waste time if you ask me. For Chrissake, that Doc really knows how to screw with your head too. Always asking you questions in the voice, and looking at you like you did something bad enough to get you expelled. Its enough to depress a person. I know in the morning, when the bell rings for that class, it depresses me a little more each time. I don't know how I'm going to last all year, that's for sure.
Giving this opportunity, I can say when it comes to being a scientist my small teacher focuses more on the bigger picture than the actual findings of assignments. For example, during the Owl Pellet observation he focused more on the overall owl pellet like how it looked, smelled, etc. but instead of wanting to analyze what was inside of it. Realizing how much his focus normally is on the bigger pictures shows how much teachers should stress how important other things such as predictions, hypothesis, etc. are when it comes to analyzing science experiments.
As a daughter, I always have tremendous admiration toward my father. I respectfully consider him as my role model as well as my behavior guide. My father, who is a successful business man, surprisingly has great passion for math and solving its problems. That might explain why I take interest in Math when I was at a very young age. People usually describe me as a patient, passionate and hard-working person. Growing up in Vietnam and having a chance to study abroad in the United States have taught me many valuable lessons of life. As a freshman who just entered college, I can speak fluently both Vietnamese and English. I decided to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha not only because of my affection for this beautiful city, but also the belief that UNO is the best place for me to develop my career as well as to achieve the education that I wish. I love traveling and learning about different cultures around the world, which is the reason why I chose international business as my major.
...ould need to have a solid grasp of what they (the upper level student) were showing the lower level student. This would be more like tutoring. Adversely a student with little or no knowledge of a language can be placed in an environment that speaks only the language they are currently learning and become proficient in it rather quickly.
I have always been fascinated with science-oriented interests. I remember being young and intrigued by the complexity of the human body. As I grew, puzzles and critical thinking became essential to my learning process.
It is hard to know each and every one of your students on a personal level
In the past few years, Democratic Socialism has become an increasingly talked about ideology across the nation. It has more recently become a widely expressed topic throughout the 2016 election. Presidential hopeful, Senator Bernie Sanders, ran for the Democratic Nomination with a Socialist platform, which quickly caught the attention of a wide range of voters. Many people then, were not fully aware of what exactly Democratic Socialism was. According to the Democratic Socialists of America, they believe that, “both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few” (DSA).
...Some of the concepts we have had to learn include drawing the different elements in a bohr rutherford diagram, balancing chemical equations, types of chemical reactions, and the different types of acids and bases. Overall there were many other things in the unit that were very eye-opening as well, but these four definately helped me as a student have that ‘ah-ha’ moment, and they have definitely helped me learn about chemistry in a more in-depth way, appreciate chemistry and the science behind it a lot more, as well as teaching me something very new things such as how to neutralize Hydrochloric Acid inside of your stomach when it starts to pain. Learning these concepts in the classroom has really opened my eyes to the world in which we live in today, and now personally I will forever hold these memories and knowledge in my mind for when I really need it in my life.
...o listen carefully to ensure that kids are discussing scientific ideas, not socializing. The teacher's role is to ensure that students achieve their primary goal: meaningful understanding of scientific concepts. The practices described in this article help bring this about in several ways. When instruction centers on students and focuses on hands-on experience with scientific phenomena, science class becomes an exciting place. When instruction concentrates on the investigation of current problems and issues through scientific inquiry, science class becomes a relevant and meaningful place. When instruction emphasizes the development of communication skills, science class becomes an invaluable place for preparing children to tackle the challenges of adulthood. And the education community owes it to its students to assess their academic progress fairly and accurately.
This class has opened my mind to the incredible impact that STEM Education can have on our society. I do not work in an institution that has a STEM program. I work at a preschool; this makes my practice of any type of STEM program extremely limited. However, it is a private school. All my students come from households where one or both of their parents are professionals. These professionals want their children to be academically prepared for school. This means we must academically, mentally, and emotionally prepare them for their future schooling. I teach my students how to be a functioning participant in a classroom while exploring mathematics, science, art, history, literature and pre-writing. Puzzles, counting, shapes, measuring, etc. are on the daily agenda. Science is a huge part of our curriculum. Science in the
My education journey has been through some setbacks, but I have continued to push forward and conquered. I have felt that I have a fixed mind set and just am not capable of achieving some things. After learning the difference between growth and fixed mindset I have realized that everyone is capable of learning anything through hard work and dedication.
I grew up in the 80s (born in 1977) and while I am sure that era impacted me in more ways than I am even aware of, I think that it was my own personal home life that set me on my current path. My mother was much older (she was 40 when I was born) and only had a 6th grade education. My father was 19 when I was born and had his GED. They had a tumultuous relationship for obvious and private reasons. They divorced when I was seven years old and I remained with my mother. Both parents worked in manual labor type jobs—my mother cleaned houses and my father repaired mobile homes. Neither knew how to be parents. My mother was an alcoholic who, I now believe, was also bipolar, and my father was just
Are any scientific theories true? If so why? If not why do we rely on them?
Induction is at the foundation of science, but the awareness come with a paradox because now laws and theories are questioned. Induction uses the individual facts. The imagination of a scientist allows the discovery of laws and theories. There is no single method to use to reach conclusions. The teaching of science now works against creative science which makes science dry and uninteresting to students. Shiela Tobias thinks that students do not want to do something science related as a career because they are not given an opportunity to see science as exciting and
Education has always been a very important part of the human life. Since the beginning of humanity, we have thrived on learning things especially figuring out new things such as the universe and the human experience itself. Various different explanations have dominated the human history in trying to educate about the universe and human experience and one of them is Science. It has always tried to question everything and to find an explanation of the unknown. In fact it is the unknown that has intrigued the humanity the most and science has been the leader in trying to provide explanations to these unknowns.