Prompt #10

I will be reviewing chapter #10, which focuses on science in the classroom. I am going to be an elementary school teacher, but I am also getting an endorsement in science which will allow me to teach science at the middle school level. Science was never my best skill, in fact, I hated it in high school. I never thought I would ever be a science teacher one day. I took an earth science class at my junior college with a wonderful instructor. He was a meteorologist by trade, and made the class so interesting and even exciting to me, and this is really what changed my mind about science all together. I only wish I had had science teachers like him when I was growing up. Science is one of those subjects that is constantly changing, and that is what I like most about it. The science curriculum is not like math: math is unchanging, and constant from year to year. You are taught math and you memorize what you are taught and you regurgitate it on the test. Science is so much different. Science is about understanding and applying what you are learning. It is about understanding how our bodies work and how our world works. I think the best feeling is to learn something in a science class, then go out into the world and experience it for yourself and realize that you understand exactly what is happening. Isn’t that amazing? There are so many different realms in the world of science education. There is physical science, life science, earth science, space science, and much more. I am a big fan of environmental and space science. There was one online resource listed, a video of Earth’s water cycle, that I think would definitely be beneficial to show to an environmental science class. The water cycle is the basis of everything, and it is really important for students to know and understand. There were several online resources for astronomy as well. I think I will enjoy teaching about space the most, because it is a mystery to most of us. There was an online link called virtual skies that would be neat to show students. Science has been placed on the back burner in recent years due to the demand for better reading and mathematics testing results. I hope to show my future students how interesting and amazing science really is, and why we should never overlook it for other subjects in the curriculum.