Week 12 Science Methods Blog Post

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1.) What did you learn this week?

This week we took the time to dive into more experiments that pushed us to look at conductivity, mass/ volume and measure on our findings. We asked the question "How can we support elementary students in learning about matter and its interactions?" All the little parts to our experiments directly impacted the question being asked and made us think as future teachers how we would answer it, along with our students. Along with this, we also talked on observations and made more notes on that as well.

2.) Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew?

I remember doing some of these things in elementary. I think mostly in 4th grade since when we had our assessment, we would go around the room and do similar tasks like these to see how we understood it. So like measuring the volume especially was something that stuck in my mind and I remembered. So I was able to relate to it pretty quickly, it just took a second at first. But brought find memories I had in elementary science.

3.) How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?

Since I myself have already done something like this now and even when I was younger, I know how much fun and useful this can be for students. I think that I could apply all the steps taken in this lab and make it just as fun and exciting to learn for my future class one day. Being able to use the concepts and knowledge provided makes this more exciting and wanting to practice the skills talked about within my future classroom.