Faith Rinehart: Elementary Science Methods 1 Blog

  1. What did you learn this week?  This week we learned about biomes and habitats. We learned about different animals, their environments, and what they like to eat. A biome is a large area that have similar climate and similar dominant types of plants and animals. A habitat is a specific place where a particular community of organisms live. Lastly an ecosystem is a community of living and non living things that interact with each other in an environment. For learned about the differences of a food chain and a food web. A food chain follows on path of how energy and matters moves through an ecosystem. Where as, a food web shows many different relationships between each level of the food chain. In a food chain we learned that you can only move trophic levels by 10%.  2. Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew? I already know about food webs and food chains but I had never put one together for different biomes. My group made a food chain for a tund...

  1. What did you learn this week?     This week we learned about Instructional models and the 5E's. When creating lessons and coming up with models we want to think of four aspects. First we want to provide a framework to plan, develop and deliver lessons. Second we should put some arrangements of phases, step, actions or decision point for teaching. Third we should have learning theories that are accepted at the time of the model's development. Last we should modify our models when new evidence comes out. We also learned about the the 5E's in modeling. The 5E's include engaging, explore, explain, extend, evaluate. Each of these steps of modeling will be done from both the students and the teachers.  2. How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?     The 5E's will be very important when it comes to me teaching in the future. Not only does it get me to take my lessons to the next level of thinking for my student...

  The first thing I learned this week was how to generate lentil seeds. I had grown lentil seeds before and I found it very interesting that they can generate on top of cotton balls. I feel like most of the time I have always grown plants from soil. We learned about dormant and active seeds. I didn’t know that seeds can be living. I always thought seeds were dormant and the plant was the living part. The next project we worked on was creating a life cycle and my group chose to do one on a butterfly. I loved that we used play-dough to do this because it made it fun and you had to be creative to make all of the different parts. We also planted a lima bean plant. I think it will be very interesting to watch it grow over the next couple of weeks.  I think the life cycle project would be a great project to add to my lessons in the future. In elementary school we all learned about life cycles and I think sometimes it can get a little confusing on what comes next. Instead of just sho...

1. What did you learn this week? During this lab I learned all about NGSS. I learned how to navigate the site and find all of the science standards that we will be using throughout the semester. I learned that on the NGSS website I can search for specific standards or I can find different ones by using the grade, practice, crosscutting content and disciplinary core ideas. This will give you a better result to finding standards that match your lessons. We also learned about the seven categories of crosscutting. After learning about NGSS, we started learning about living things. We learned about the eight core characteristic of living things.          The 8 core characteristics for living things include,              - Growth and change              - Responds to stimuli        ...