Reflection Of The Investigation-Colloquium Method In Teaching Science

The process skills approach to teaching is defined as the educator helping children develop science skills and processes to confidently undertake their own investigations (Campbell, 2012). These skills are developed through: communicating, science language, asking questions, making sense of phenomena, predicting, modelling, conducting investigations, planning, testing, observing, reasoning, and drawing conclusions of science concepts (Campbell, 2012). When the educator assist children’s learning, it is important to put the emphasis on the nature of science and scientific concepts. Guided discovery approach to teaching requires the educator to ask effective questions that encourage children to explore and extend their investigations throughout science learning (Campbell, 2012). This can be developed through play experiences as children explore their world around them. An interactive approach to teaching children is based on questions that lead explorations and the educators to provide essential resources to guide these explorations (Campbell, 2012). It is the educators’ responsibility to support children’s development, ideas, questions, ways of thinking, and develop scientific thinking. Furthermore, an inquiry approach to teaching relates to children investigating the answers to their own

I elicited and built upon student’s response to promote thinking and develop understanding of science concepts through questioning to get student think critically about what they did at each station and how it fit together what we see happen outside the classroom. it can be seen in the video clip 2 lesson 4 minute , it can been seen in the video that students are actively engaged in answering questions and are willing to give their insight into situation. In video clip 1 The students watch a video about the chemistry of carbon. and while the students watched the video there were a list of the question that each students need to answer it, and one of these questions was asking about “what the protein are made off “This provided students

science -inquiry concepts. In the video clip from lesson 4,minute Students will work together to form hypothesis, observe ,follow procedure ,collect and analyze data, write a conclusion. This lab has four stations, with each stations student were dealing with situation involving phenomenon that they see outside of the classroom, likely on daily basis. so, with each station the Students can be seen using data and their observations as evidence to explain why they were seeing this real-world phenomenon. then students need to answer the lab analysis questions that also connect them with real world. video 2. Furthermore, to help students construct their explanations, I asked questions that push students to make connections to the real world. For example, in video 2, minute , I ask students why organic compounds dose not conduct electricity ? and how about if we try using water and salt ?

The WebQuery, the 5E lesson plan, and the field trip guide, are examples of through which students engage in investigations that enhance learning and that helps them meet the NGSS. These artifacts also indicate my ability to develop lesson plans that promote the learning of science; that align content to the NGSS; that demonstrate the use of assessment to ensure that the students are meeting the standards; and that showcase the use of literature to support grouping strategies and lesson rationale

Zangori, L. & Forbes, C. T., (2014). Scientific practices in elementary classrooms: Third-grade students’ scientific explanations for seed structure and function. Science Education, 98, 614-639.

Seamless Assessment Chapter 3 applies to life science and how students investigate to build foundation. Mrs. Schwartz a first grade teacher engages her students to conduct an investigation to find out the differences between seeds and eggs. As part of the assessment strategies the students had to engage, explore, explain, and elaborate/evaluate. As part of the engage stage, students had to place objects into two different circle labeled “seeds” and “not seeds”. The different objects included candy, seeds, and beads. If the students were not sure they left it to the side. Mrs. Schwartz at the end of the activity had a scientist meeting. For young students I think it is imperative for them to be able to discuss their findings and thoughts. It

According to Susman (2013), “science is a moving target, forever advancing and getting more complicated. It’s hard to keep up and really hard to catch up. What you learn in high school is often so different by the time you have kids of your own that you can’t easily help them with their science homework. Science changes faster than iPod models”. In this case study, Clifton High School principal believed that “students learn Science by doing, not simply by watching” (Picciano, 2011, p. 182). In 2009, the principal had trouble recruiting qualified science teachers and providing a full Science teaching program.

Humans have always tried to understand scientific concepts relevant to the individual and to society. Basically, the branch of science started out when ancient people like Nicholas Copernicus, began to wonder about our world. Unlike earlier philosophers, Copernicus applied a systematic method to find answers to his question about our solar system. Views of how science works should be kept simple. Observe your world, find a problem to solve and then apply methods to find the answer. Young children do this naturally. Education should take adavantage of the natural curiosity of the children and apply it to the classroom. Always considering safety of course, teachers should allow time for observation and let students discover answers through their own experimentation. While prominent professors claim science teaching is complicated, like when Richard, J. Hamilton from Arizona State University claims "The whole prosess of learning has turned out to be far more complex than most imagined, and I believe that science educators are struggling to find a new, more effective approach to the complexity" (Hamilton, 1992, p. 202). Respectfully disagreeing, science is still simple. Two like charges simply repel and discovering the concept is not complex. Students learn by exploring and teaching science must incorporate this hands-on approach in order to reach mastery of required teaching

The purpose of this article is to inspect the possible link between teachers’ visions of the growth of scientific knowledge and the methods they use to help students construct a knowledge of science. Teachers’ views about science influenced not only lessons about the nature of science but also shaped an implicit curriculum concerning the nature of scientific knowledge. The study used sampling to find seven teachers. During the interview, the teachers were questioned about their syntactical knowledge. Syntactical knowledge refers to by Brickhouse as the methods used in a discipline to construct knowledge (e. g. , how experimentation and evidence influence the generation of scientific theories, how theories are used in generating new knowledge,

Since I am in a kindergarten class doing the communicating in scientific ways poster was not very proper for their age. Missy came up with a friendly kindergarten scientific poster that we could use to do the lesson plan with our students. It was not easy to do this lesson plan because my CT kept changing the date I could do the lesson plan. The day of the lesson plan I had all of the students present. I had all the students make a circle in the carpet area. I ask students, how do scientist think? I let them think first about the question by themselves, then share with an elbow partner, and lastly we share as a whole group. Students had a very good general idea of how a scientist thinks. Of course since it was a kindergarten class some of

Peterson used an inquiry based learning activity to allow students to make discoveries on their own. The class was instructed to read an article called The Frog and the Toad. Students were asked to identify similarities and differences between frogs and toads and record their findings in their spiral notebook. Students were given approximately 10 minutes to read and record their finds. Once students collected their data, they were asked to break into cooperative learning groups to conference about their findings. Mrs. Peterson witnessed a great deal of sharing and debating which a wonderful indication that students were able to defend their data with supporting

The year three students at Brown Coal Primary School have been discussing a range of fire scenarios with their teacher and the damage they can cause, since returning to school after the disaster. Edelson, Gordin, and Pea (1999), state that when students generate their own inquiry based discussions it aids in their development of understanding Science concepts and principles, along with achieving specific investigation skills as they analyse and collaborate with cohorts. The teacher creates an internal partnership by conveying this information to the principal at the staff meeting. The principal suggests that it would be a good idea to explore the student’s inquiries with a science project to help the students work through some of the emotions

This assignment is a case study of a child’s engagement, inquiry skills and understanding of physical or chemical understandings. There are two parts to the assignment that build to the final case study report. Part A is to design a science inquiry activity suitable for engaging a child at junior primary with physical or chemical science understandings that uses materials like water, sand, ball or tubes. At the next, it is needed to figure out how the planned inquiry activity links to the Australian Curriculum and the early Years Learning Framework. This report also needs to explain and justify the learning theory that underpins the activity and the proposed teaching and learning approach. At the last

In Science, teachers serve as the facilitator of learning, guiding them through the inquiry process. Teachers must ask open-ended questions, allow time for the students to answer, avoid telling students what

Science is, by its nature, inquiry based and science knowledge is built through processes in which discoveries of the natural world are made (Abruscato, 2000). It utilizes discovery and scientific thinking process to explore and learn knowledge and skills. Learning by doing is the new efficient method in teaching science. For kindergarten, this method leads to better understanding of science concepts and builds skills that children will use in future life .What a child can do with assistance now, they can later do on their own (Vygotsky, 1978). John Dewey (1916) stated that children must be engaged in an active quest for learning and new ideas. Inquiry is important in educating kindergarteners because it not only keeps them interested in lessons but also helps them retain more information when performing exploration and investigation. Children are naturally motivated to learn and actively seek out information to help their understanding (Piaget, 1950).The success of students who participate in hands- on inquiry activities suggests that if students have first hands experience with science, concepts are easier to understand and apply and students are generally more favorable to science and have better understanding of the nature of science .Within a conceptual framework, inquiry learning and active learner involvement can lead to important outcomes in the classroom. In kindergarten, students who are actively making observations, collecting results and drawing