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“Good teaching engages students and their teachers in both process and content.”

SCIENCE WORKSHOP

• Meetings in workshop are essential
• Hands on activities
• Communication is key

QUESTION BOARD

• Questions that nobody has answers to are saved for later
• Research questions
• Testable questions

DISCOVERY BOXES

• Different science projects in the boxes
• Sign up sheet for the boxes
• Time to explore before they choose a box

BOOK OF DISCOVERIES

• Students major discoveries are posted here for the students of the following years to read.
• Students can build off other students research

OBSERVATIONAL WRITING

• The teacher will have a folded piece of paper to write about what they see is or is not working with the students as they are observing or experimenting.
• The teacher will use the paper to take notes about the students and how they feel about the project and whether they may need more materials.
• Then the teacher will have a notebook with the student’s records to write down how they are progressing with the experiment and to see if they will need to have a meeting with the teacher.

CONTINUED

• The students will be given their own scientific notebooks to write down what they are performing.
• The students will leave enough space at the bottom to write questions, draw pictures, or plan what they may want to study.
• The students can be given prompts (questions) to think about and write in their journals, code information which they have written down and date their journals, and write persuasive reports on opposition in the science literature.

ASSESSMENTS

• There are many different types of assessments out there to show the growth of what a child completed.
• Some assessment can be:
• Portfolios, questionnaires and surveys, interviews, and rating scales
• Portfolios- the student dates the work they do and collects over the year what they learned.
• Performance assessment- the child is assessed based on what they learned on how to get an answer that is right or wrong vs. just knowing the right answer because the children will have to prove they know how to find the fact.

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE INTEGRATION PROJECT (ESIP)

• The ESIP is a program to help teachers learn how to understand and use science in their lives and how to think of different ways to teach it.
• Jeanne Reardon thought of how science answers questions by studying how scientists form questions and then she helped the students think about how water runs down on different objects as it rained and how to search other answers about rain too.
• Jo Anne and Dana were two teachers who just did the basic teaching of the curriculum of science to their students. After going through a program of how to use science throughout the curriculum they started creating book clubs reading specifically on science, inviting scientists in the classroom, and as they did other things they would find a way to bring science in and talk about what they were doing together to change how they taught.

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