Science Should Be Taught

After being in class for just two weeks, I have already seen so many great ideas and have been given new insights on how science should be taught and why it is important. Science is different in its own way, and many students end up not liking it. This is not simply because of the material, but because they way it is being taught in schools. Science is seen as almost an afterthought, whenever it can be fitted in will suffice. The problem with this is that teachers then don’t spend time on their science lesson, it gets taken out if they need more time for something else, or it ends up just reading from a book or powerpoint and students taking notes. There are key concepts that teachers and administrators are overlooking that can make students

I believe that science needs to be taught in the same way we had our station during class. This means that students will be going through an inquiry, challenged, and guided section of the lesson. While students do this I believe that teachers should be going through the 5 E’s. Inquiry as talked about in Foundations is “an approach to learning that involves a process of exploring the natural or material world, and that leads to asking questions, making discoveries, and rigorously testing those discoveries in the search for new understanding.” (Kluger-Bel, 2). When a lesson is started with exploration, students immediately become interested. They have questions, they talk about ideas, they want to know the answer. It is then the time where the teacher allows to student to explore and discover. The teacher can set up guiding points, but for the most part the students end up teaching themselves. Once the inquiry step is over, the students move onto the challenge. This is the place where they take everything they just learned in the inquiry and apply it. They are challenging themselves to now show they know the solution. Finally, the students end with the guided practice. The students get to explore already created materials or experiments. They are not required to make or do anything, but to look and explore. Their discussion is deeper because they know what they are talking about and what they have been thinking