In regards to the overall class, I feel I have contributed by helping my peers and being encouraging. Since I have been in class with the same people for most of my education classes, we have all really learned to support each other and help each other as we go through these difficult classes. I think that I could probably support some of the students I don't know as well more, and encourage them since I naturally tend to gravitate to the other student teachers that I know really well.
In my research about the New Generation Science Standards, I found an article titled "Next Generation Science Standards: What's different, and do they matter?" (link at bottom). Throughout this article, I found that it emphasized the idea of inquiry, and how the NGSS help push inquiry and content together. The article explains that inquiry used to be taught at the beginning of the year through the scientific method, and then content was taught separately without every connecting. The NGSS is created to connect "content and process". In my future classroom as well as throughout my science methods class, I will always remember that the NGSS is a tool that helps me connect inquiry with what I am teaching. This article has helped me realize why the NGSS is so important, and why I should continue to use it in my instruction in the future.
Although I have learned a lot about the New Generation Science Standards this week, I have still barely scratched the surface of these standards. My action goal for this month is to continue to delve deeper into the NGSS standards, and find at least five strategies for integrating these standards and ideas into my teaching practices within a month.
Science News:
This past week, the news has reported that the world seems to be taking climate change less seriously recently due to the president taking the focus of our country off of the environment (link at bottom). I thought this was interesting because it seems our world, or specifically our country, does not tend to want to inquiry about problems. The world today does not often take the time to inquiry about finding solutions, and tends to ignore problems instead. This relates to science methods because it shows me how important it is to teach our students how to inquiry about their world, and to always ask questions and try to find solutions.
Tweets:
I chose this tweet to share because I thought it was so interesting to think about using stem and inquiry in a way that allows students to learn in their own way. Since stem and inquiry tend to put learning back on the students, it truly allows them to do things in the way that works best for them. This creates great differentiation and helps all students grow and learn!
I chose to share this tweet because STEM and inquiry seem like such big ideas, when in reality it is just teaching students to explore and question the world around them. Teaching in this innovative way helps make learning relevant and brings the world around our students into the classroom. Letting them explore and create will also help student learning to stick, and all it takes is letting students begin to wonder about the many phenomena around them.
I chose to share this tweet because I think it is so important to teach inquiry based science in order to help science come alive for our students. Students will learn more and remember more when they fall in love with learning. We can help students to find a love for learning through inquiry and hands on learning where students get the opportunity to explore relevant things from their surroundings that are important and interesting to them.
Links:
- http://stemteachingtools.org/brief/14
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/a-global-rightward-shift-on-climate-change/568684/
In my research about the New Generation Science Standards, I found an article titled "Next Generation Science Standards: What's different, and do they matter?" (link at bottom). Throughout this article, I found that it emphasized the idea of inquiry, and how the NGSS help push inquiry and content together. The article explains that inquiry used to be taught at the beginning of the year through the scientific method, and then content was taught separately without every connecting. The NGSS is created to connect "content and process". In my future classroom as well as throughout my science methods class, I will always remember that the NGSS is a tool that helps me connect inquiry with what I am teaching. This article has helped me realize why the NGSS is so important, and why I should continue to use it in my instruction in the future.
Although I have learned a lot about the New Generation Science Standards this week, I have still barely scratched the surface of these standards. My action goal for this month is to continue to delve deeper into the NGSS standards, and find at least five strategies for integrating these standards and ideas into my teaching practices within a month.
Science News:
This past week, the news has reported that the world seems to be taking climate change less seriously recently due to the president taking the focus of our country off of the environment (link at bottom). I thought this was interesting because it seems our world, or specifically our country, does not tend to want to inquiry about problems. The world today does not often take the time to inquiry about finding solutions, and tends to ignore problems instead. This relates to science methods because it shows me how important it is to teach our students how to inquiry about their world, and to always ask questions and try to find solutions.
Tweets:
I chose this tweet to share because I thought it was so interesting to think about using stem and inquiry in a way that allows students to learn in their own way. Since stem and inquiry tend to put learning back on the students, it truly allows them to do things in the way that works best for them. This creates great differentiation and helps all students grow and learn!
I chose to share this tweet because STEM and inquiry seem like such big ideas, when in reality it is just teaching students to explore and question the world around them. Teaching in this innovative way helps make learning relevant and brings the world around our students into the classroom. Letting them explore and create will also help student learning to stick, and all it takes is letting students begin to wonder about the many phenomena around them.
I chose to share this tweet because I think it is so important to teach inquiry based science in order to help science come alive for our students. Students will learn more and remember more when they fall in love with learning. We can help students to find a love for learning through inquiry and hands on learning where students get the opportunity to explore relevant things from their surroundings that are important and interesting to them.
Links:
- http://stemteachingtools.org/brief/14
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/a-global-rightward-shift-on-climate-change/568684/
