What was your experience with science while you were in elementary school? Can you remember a science unit that was exciting to you? Middle school? High school? Did any teacher, along the way, spark your interest in science? At what grade level did that happen? What was the topic(s)? How confident do you feel about teaching science today?
I remember doing interactive experiments and other hands on learning during science class. We grew butterflies, green bean plants, planted a garden next to the creek behind our school in elementary school. In middle school, we did STEM labs, which was building structures and eventually turned into creating an eco-friendly invention. In high school, it was more interactive labs, like making ice cream and doing crime scene forensics in chemistry, dissections/blood typing in anatomy, building a roller coaster in physics, and building cell models out of clay in AP Bio. I had a lot of science teachers that I really liked and took time to make the class engaging, which helped connect the content to real world scenarios. I feel fairly confident about teaching science right now.
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While I was in elementary school, I can remember a lot of the experiments we did because they were something that would make the class fun and keep us interactive with the lesson. A specific unit in elementary school that was exciting to me was the unit that involved clouds and precipitation. We put water in a glass with shaving cream on top of the water and dropped food dye onto the shaving cream. The color slowly dripped through the "cloud" and fell into the water as "rain". My middle school science teacher was the teacher to spark my interest in science around 7th grade, and because of the experiments that I did while my interested was sparked I feel more confident about teaching science because these experiments and lessons can carry over.
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