Monday
Tuesday
The skills necessary to be successful in accomplishing any science process include the ability to be objective, observant, and consistent in action. Intellectual skills necessary for quality contributions to science include communication, planning, foresight, prediction and critical thinking. While skills like pipeting are also commonly used, techniques such as these must be improved by practice. More abstract skills, however, can be improved while participating in almost any activity.
Aspects of science process skills include fostering curiosity, forming a hypothesis, planning experiments, collecting data, interpreting results and communication of those results. Any activity that forces a person to exercise his or her mental faculties in any of those directions will help improve science process skills. The science process always begins with a natural curiosity about nature.
Participating in activities that arouse one's curiosity will help encourage a continuous state of inquiry. Exposing oneself to new information that warrants further questioning often leads to forming a hypothesis. As more information is gained and more questions arise, predictions are naturally made. A participant in good science process skills will often begin an experiment with a hypothesis, stemming from a situation where information was gained and a prediction was made about why things are how they are.
Wednesday
Today we continued our class discussion on what Science is...It is exciting helping students see that Science is all around us in the natural world, and is all about wondering and having an inquiring mind
as a basis for further research. Yes, it does require organizational skills, patience, and perseverance for completing accurate repeated trials to check the validity of one's hypothesis, but without the keen observation and imagination of great scientists that came before us, the technology we have today might not be around!
Thursday
Classwork
Today in class, we discussed the meaning of individual learning styles, and took a brief learning styles survey in class. Students are asked to research a website called VARK http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger
that offers a more extensive, and age-appropriate questionnaire to explore this further.
In order to utilize this knowledge students need to know how to apply it. This particular website offers some valuable strategies for studying to students who have identified their preferred learning style.
Homework: After visiting the site and taking the additional survey for younger people (aged 12-18), please go HERE and select the name of your dominant style.
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger Left side of home page
Tuesday
The skills necessary to be successful in accomplishing any science process include the ability to be objective, observant, and consistent in action. Intellectual skills necessary for quality contributions to science include communication, planning, foresight, prediction and critical thinking. While skills like pipeting are also commonly used, techniques such as these must be improved by practice. More abstract skills, however, can be improved while participating in almost any activity.
Aspects of science process skills include fostering curiosity, forming a hypothesis, planning experiments, collecting data, interpreting results and communication of those results. Any activity that forces a person to exercise his or her mental faculties in any of those directions will help improve science process skills. The science process always begins with a natural curiosity about nature.
Participating in activities that arouse one's curiosity will help encourage a continuous state of inquiry. Exposing oneself to new information that warrants further questioning often leads to forming a hypothesis. As more information is gained and more questions arise, predictions are naturally made. A participant in good science process skills will often begin an experiment with a hypothesis, stemming from a situation where information was gained and a prediction was made about why things are how they are.
Wednesday
Today we continued our class discussion on what Science is...It is exciting helping students see that Science is all around us in the natural world, and is all about wondering and having an inquiring mind
as a basis for further research. Yes, it does require organizational skills, patience, and perseverance for completing accurate repeated trials to check the validity of one's hypothesis, but without the keen observation and imagination of great scientists that came before us, the technology we have today might not be around!
Thursday
Classwork
Today in class, we discussed the meaning of individual learning styles, and took a brief learning styles survey in class. Students are asked to research a website called VARK http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger
that offers a more extensive, and age-appropriate questionnaire to explore this further.
In order to utilize this knowledge students need to know how to apply it. This particular website offers some valuable strategies for studying to students who have identified their preferred learning style.
Homework: After visiting the site and taking the additional survey for younger people (aged 12-18), please go HERE and select the name of your dominant style.
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger Left side of home page