A Moment of Science

  Final Reflection Science Methods Course Reflection This semester has been nothing but chaos, yes I am not only referring to our world but our classes as well. I understand the struggle many of my teachers were going through trying to master virtual tools while administering them as if they have known them for years. These trying times forced everyone to take a step back and look at things in a new light. This course has made me view virtual teaching in a new light. I have learned about so many digital resources and methods that I most likely would not have known about without coivd19. Below I want to break up my learning into three categories:  Course Gainings, Personal Growth, and Professional Growth.  Course Gainings:  From reading and reflecting on our textbook I have learned so much about teaching children science: A discovery approach, the methods of teaching it, and even the reasons for teaching it. Prior to this course and reading and learning all that I hav...

 Science Group Four Lesson Reflection Direct Instruction Reflection Concepts being taught:  Tertiary Consequences of CC Increase in Heat Increase in Heavy Precipitation  The decrease in Sea Ice Famine Population Displacement Bell Curve Jet Stream Engagement methods used:  Pear Deck, Memory Check, Mental check-in, Stop & Think, Matching Time, Google Forms, Brain Breaks Tech Tool-Kit Resources : Word Cloud, Youtube Inquiry-based Instruction Reflection Questions asked:  Does anyone remember what tertiary means? Can anyone name at least one of the five tertiary effects of climate change? Activity: Saving Peter the Penguins Home...Answering the question of how Climate Change affects the penguins in Antarctica Independent Practice: Create a poster to be published in penguin weekly that tells the world how CC is affection Antarctica and our penguins Engagement methods:  Brain Break, Sharing thoughts and work,  Teacher Took Kit Resources:  Jamboard, Y...

  Let's Jam with Google Jamboard To get an idea of what Google Jamboard just imagine a virtual whiteboard with multiple participant access.  Jamboard empowers students to share ideas and collaborate.  This semester we utilized jamboard in our lessons while teaching to get quick student feedback. It was a great tool to utilize in this sense, although there were some sharing accessibility issues here and there. The really great thing about it is that students can pull files from their own drive and collaborate with jamboard which was a feature we did not use this semester but I will continue to look into. In turn, it truly is a wonderful addition to google classroom and virtual teaching.  As a future educator, I plan to use jamboard as perhaps a classroom response system or just the way we have been using it this semester. It is a valuable tool to have access to. 

ENGAGE: Warm-up How are Lesson and unit plans the same and how are they different?   I think Lesson plans are meant for a single day, like a lesson plan for each day individually. A unit plan is when you take all the individual lesson plans and combine them to create a unit lesson! So that could be on any topic. Post-Reading: As stated above I found my claims for both to be correct. A unit plan incooperates the multiple lessons plans. While lesson plans are specific to the objectives of a single lesson in the grand scheme of the unit plan.  EVALUATE Essential Question example about Volcanoes :  What determiness whether volcanoes are deadly or not? Fieldwork Group essential questions on Dorughts :  What role does water play in earth processes? What are some community impacts of a drought?

Reflection on Climate Change This week's lecture for Tuesday was super intriguing to me and very impactful. It sparked my anxiety for life. Growing up climate change and the effects of humans on the earth has been drilled into my education. I’ve been taught if the consequences of our actions in every science class I’ve ever taken...whether it be botany, oceanology, environmental science, and so on. Although this lecture was informational I still felt helpless. I recycle and try to live an eco-friendly lifestyle but I feel that we should be turning to the bigger Industries and company’s creating more and actually impactful pollution. We create these artificial environments that have consequences! Whether it be forestation, mining, extraction, and more we HAVE planetary boundaries. We only have one earth and it is crucial that we don’t take advantage of it. Our biggest issue in my eyes through climate change is the doing sea levels...which root from ice caps melting. If our ice caps ...

 Scientific Method Infographic  Created by Julia Loda What I learned about the Scientific Method: What do you think the most important characteristics of a scientist: In this process of creating this infographic and iterating what I have already learned I feel like I was able to understand more after having to restate it all. The scientific method has taught me the underlying message that things aren't linear, you are going to have to tweak or adjust and that is just the way of life. I learned that it is so important to start with a question you are passionate about otherwise it won't be as enjoyable of a process for you. I think the most important characteristic of a scientist is being able to stay open-minded or ana out of the box thinker. If you approach aspects of experiments or even live like this you will learn so much more and be able to explore so much more. This will help you to not think so linear in problem-solving and experimental designing.

 Scientific Method Project  EXPLORE & LEARN What even is a Scientific Method? Well, it is a process of exploring and observing that gives you an answer to a question! It consists of six steps: 1. Ask the question!    - This is your who, where, what, why?' 2. Do the research     -  Find reliable and scholarly sources to help you ensure the information is accurate. Use your library resources!  3. Construct a Hypothesis - Let's make an educated guess! This is where you attempt to answer your question with a statement that can be tested..."If I do X, then Y" 4.  Test your Hypothesis  - Time to see if what you guessed is true! Here we are carrying out experimental tests to see if the hypothesis made will be supported or not. Make sure you share your results! 5. Analyze and Conclude - Now it is time for you to look back at all the data you collected and draw up a conclusion. What did you learn?  Was your hypothesis accurate or do...