Week 3

This week has been a great week! I was most proud of myself for collaborating with my science fair group and altering our plan to make a much better project that you can test and hypothesize about. My struggle this week was trying to learn to distinguish between the pieces to the knowledge dimension of blooms revised taxonomy. Having to place the small pieces of paper with the scenarios on them under the paper with the words "factual, procedural, conceptual, and meta cognitive" really helped me and the rest of the class to better understand what each of them means (Thanks Dr. Parker)! The thing that brought me the most satisfaction this week was the Inquiry self check. I really enjoyed reading this website with the eight pointers of how to create an inquiry based classroom and after completing the discussion board, I feel much more prepared to teach with an inquiry based approach! I contributed to the class this week by putting resources in my discussion boards that help with teaching science education and knowing the content since I didn't do so well on the 5th grade science EOG. Next week, I will also put resources for things in all of my discussion boards. Not only is it in the rubric, but because it really does help me and my classmates learn and grow from exploring all of the resources we all post! For my outside learning, I played around with a website (http://www.sciencefun.org) and this is a great resource and I highly recommend my classmates to put it in their resource kits. This website is great for kids to learn science by doing experiments that are safe to do, but also very engaging for the students, there is also a trivia tab as well and if you get a question wrong it tells you why it's wrong and why the correct answer is right. Another fun feature on this website is the science jokes tab. I think these jokes would be a great thing to do before you begin a lesson because the students will automatically lock in on you because you are doing something fun for them! I will use this website to help myself to better learn the science content. My first tweet of the week said "What happens when students own their learning?" and there is a infographic which has many different effects from students owning their learning. Everything listed on the infographic is very important for you students to develop! There is a picture below if you wanna see the infographic. My second tweet is by Tom Loud and in this tweet, he's giving us teachers a friendly reminder that our attitude effects all of the other teachers we work with. This is the same thing in SCED or any class, my attitude can effect all of my colleagues. My third tweet is by Amy Fast and she just reminded me that the goal of our teaching is to give our students a "passion to utilize the material for a greater purpose..."

  This week, I have been following hurricane Irma, and the thing that amazes me the most about weather is that you never know for sure what is going to happen. I can connect my research about Irma to science because hurricanes are science phenomena in action! The NCTCS that I focused on this week was "teachers know the content they teach" I missed some things on the science test and after reflecting on the discussion board, I found that resource I talked about before that can help me learn some of that content and even use some of it in my future classroom!