Science seems to have always been interesting, just not in a classroom. School science classes bored me. To me, it was just memorizing vocabulary. It was always science outside of school that excited me. I remember as a child I would spend Saturday afternoon parked in front of the basement T.V., my eyes glued to the screen during the Discovery channels Mythbuster marathons. I loved watching the Mythbusters use science to solve problems to do tasks. Even if, that task was often causing something to go catastrophically wrong. Mythbusters made me take notice of the everyday things around me that, in all actuality, were super complex. This curiosity extended beyond those T.V. Saturdays. Soon enough I was playing in the backyard trying to make potions
The three original Mythbusters trio, Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci comes back to your screens in a new scientific series. The new series will air on Netflix and is called the White Rabbit Project.
As Whitehead says, “If a science forgets its heroes, it is lost.” Learning about nature of science and its social and cultural aspects will enhance of our understanding that science is a human endeavor. Science is a way of explaining natural phenomena by using interpretations and interferences with experimental data and observations. However, including history of science in our teachings, as well as a laboratory part, is a great way to illuminate students about the evolution of science and how scientists can take risks and sometimes fail while seeking information. Whether they study science fields or not, this history will encourage students to make and learn from mistakes while engaged in scientific practices that will expand their
As a child, science had always been a significant interest for me. Growing up, I watched the show Bill Nye the Science Guy with passion and curiosity. I wanted to know more about the topics he spoke about and the background behind these ideas. It was not until high school that my inquisitiveness for science was fully answered. It was 9th grade honors Biology and I had never experienced a science course as in depth and thorough.
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with science. From a young age, I remember searching through the internet to answer every question I had and asking my parents - both with PhDs - about the world around me. One day, I discovered a documentary: Battlefield Cell. In that moment, I was hooked on learning and had a problem I wanted to solve.
There is a large red box sitting in a prominent place in the front of the classroom. The teacher continues to teach while appearing to ignore the obtrusive item. Ever so often, she leans in and places an ear to the box. Finally, one kid asks what all other kids wanted to know, "Ms. Velmer, what is in the box?" The students were hooked and ready to engage in the deep space lecture to follow. This is how science should be approached at every level in public education. Teachers should utilize natural curiosity to jump start student engagement. What is science? Mariam-Webster defines science as "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through
What is science? A question everybody knows but only few choose to answer. A question that never goes out of style, a question that can trigger someone to jump off of the window for being the most “cliché” question that a teacher can ask. Name all those thoughts, but if we look on the other side of it, science had contributed a lot of things in the world and in our lives.
I have always been interested in science. As a child, I would perform little experiments by freezing my dinosaurs in a water bottle filled with water. My family was always very supportive of me and my scientific pursuits. Because of this, my grandmother gave me a children’s science experiment book. I enjoyed making sugar crystals and a substance called oobleck that was similar to a solid and a liquid. When I was a little older, my parents even bought me a science experiment kit, and I was ecstatic. But, my enthusiasm did not end there. I was so enthusiastic about science that when I had to pick
As a matter of fact, I have always love the topic of science, however, I didn’t watch the shows that taught science for young children because, my parents thought a talking dog and his friends solving mysteries was the best choice for me. I don’t regret that decision at all. Science in general for me has been easy due to me having a great memory, for instance, during tests, I am able to picture the book, which helps me get the right answer. The involvement with Advance Placement Chemistry has taught me many key life lessons. These include; study, study, and more study, you cannot study enough for any subject. The art of being prepared, procrastination will hurt you in
I think that science gives us a more of a reason to wonder and to be even more curious. For example, Jonah was super curious about what important Americas were doing when the first atomic bomb was dropped in Japan. Jonah realized later that what he was actually wanting to know was what was the father of the atomic bomb and his family doing that day. Once he knew what the whole family was doing on that day he wanted to know more about them not really much about the bomb anymore. Then he ended up on a huge journey that led to the end of the world and him being the dictator of this island. That’s really what happens in real life with things that we look for. When we go out looking for answers we usually find an answer to something completely different to our original question. If science were the destruction of wonder once we found the answer to our question we wouldn’t really know what to do with this information we would just have useless information. “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.” Those people that don’t get anything out of the information they have received tend to become irritated. Many people don’t really know what to do with the information because they don’t want to believe it’s true, and sometimes that’s why people don’t want to learn anything that they aren’t comfortable with.
Growing up I was always fascinated by the sciences,and I attribute that mostly to watching Bill Nye growing up, because he made a subject that ordinarily would have been daunting easy to approach. This is something that I believe was one of Bill Nye’s goals, and he achieved it marvelously. Which is why I have always taken the enriched science classes.
I discovered my desire to explore the unknown and innate curiosity in science when I conducted an environmental school project in a nearby lake. In groups of five, we had to collect water samples to test pH, CO2 levels, and other chemical concentrations. Then we tabulated the data and wrote a paper. When doing the project, I realized I had a particular desire to challenge a status quo and apply my knowledge to reality.
Sciecnce has stimulated my imagination ever since i was in elementary school. I was always fascinated with the expriments and the fact that it was okay if the exprimient failed the frist few times. No matter what I was curious about the science behind everything. I would do my own expirements at my house in order to answer the questions that i had in my head. For example, I would see whats happens if a freeze something, or boil it, or even mix it with other sutff. I always had a question in my head and science was a way for me to get an answer. One of the reasons why i love science and a favorite reasons is because in science you can have mistakes and failures and learn from them.
Being a STEM amateur, the love of creation in science or math fueled by curiosity is something that I cherish. At a very young age, I was a natural investigator exploring the world by touch in order to quench my thirst for knowledge. Simple things such as toy cars and action figures were my books as I read them through the process of testing. I explored the laws of physics by constantly dropping and pushing my toys down the hallway, while learning mechanics by incessantly activating my action figure’s movement abilities. My meals where chemistry experiments mixing and matching different foods to view their binding qualities. As I grew older, I began to delve into more advance concepts with the increase of technology being incorporated into
Science fascinates me, it makes me think and it makes me strive for a better future for all. I know so much for someone my age because I am devoted to science. I regularly research on my own, and I pay attention in class because there is always something new to learn. The downside to being me though, is my lack of motivation and procrastination when it comes to homework assignments. In my mind,
I believe science is one of the most important subjects taught in our schools as it has a vast influence within the classroom and the real world. To be an informed citizen students “should be involved in hands-on activities and be able to analyze, interoperate and plan open-ended investigations” (Turner, as cited in Hassard, 2010). This develops a range of transferable skills across the curriculum and within the real world. Through the hands on activities within this unit students learn skills such as predicting, problem solving, teamwork, perseverance, patience and researching. Science also provides knowledge about the way things work and consequences of certain actions and through my lessons I have encouraged the development of