The Meeting of the Science Minds

January 24th, 2012 Teaching and Learning Science

Second Life MeetingNancy Dooley, Ed Pell, Ralph Siegel

Our first meeting with our group. We brainstormed ideas for our project and came up with a few ideas.

Our feelings about Second Life

and our future as a science teacher!

Challenging

Fun

Exciting

Our goal: To create exciting and engaging lessons for our students that will develop their love for science and broaden their knowledge.

Our idea: To answer the questions every

child has with scientific experiments.

Why is the sky blue?What makes bread rise?Why do cats have whiskers?

Our plan: To ask children in our lives

questions they may have and each week

we will use hands on activities to

answer those questions.

Science Mystery Theater

http://www.livescience.com/

Why is the

moon someti

mes out during

the day?

Will we ever discover aliens?

How much does the

Earth weigh?

How do

airplanes stay up?

Kids’ most

burning questions

After some hearing issues we moved back into our meeting place to see if the professor was

around. We found another classmate. Hi Tami! Jake was just here a minute ago.

Step 1

•Explain lesson to students

•Let students brainstorm

•Demonstrate experiment

Step 2

•Break up into groups

•Assist students with experiments

•Return to desks for more brainstorming

Step 3

•Compare results

•Review if the question has been answered

•Create new questions

WE CREATED OUR PLAN

Conclusion: Science should be hands on learning and fun

Experiments and student brainstorming will keep the students interested and engaged in the lesson.