I think the most important things I learned about teaching science is that with the correct amount of scaffolding no subject is too intense or difficult to cover in the classroom. In my practicum there is little explicit instruction about science, it is covered in the everyday experiences children have. I really liked how there was fish tanks and a toad for the students to look at everyday and to track their growth. Another science activity we did was to have caterpillars in the class and they grew in to butterflies. The kids really liked this, and because we did it in the beginning of the year it really brought the whole class together as a community watching the caterpillars each day. I think science is a really useful tool to do this with because children don't need any background knowledge before they analyze or explore something. They can just have ideas or ask their questions.
In the lesson plans I wrote up the students had never planted beans in this way before. I thought it was a really cool lesson and incorporated a lot of other themes going on in the class at the time. One of the coolest parts was the children were also learning about place value so when we were adding up the heights of the plants we used Deines Blocks to keep track. Science incorporates so many subjects and I want to continue to learn more about how to effectively integrate lessons into a classroom.
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