Blog: Science Methods Last Blog!!

Reflection

Throughout this month, I have taught my clinical learning experience, as well as joined my robotics team at our elementary school! I am most proud of teaching my clinical learning segment. I struggled this week with the amount of workload that I have to finish before the end of the semester. To deal with this struggle, I am just doing one thing at a time until I am done. The most satisfaction was brought to me by teaching my lesson, because the students really enjoyed this and it was something that my students do not normally get to do within the normal day. For this week, I feel like I contributed well. We have not had too many class discussions for me to be a part of, but what we have I felt like I was very engaged and brought good conversations to the table. For these upcoming weeks, I can help my class by bringing encouragement to everyone. For NCTCS I learned about 4e which states that teachers need to allow students to gain problem-solving skills as well as critical thinking skills. This is something that I tried to do in my lesson and am trying to gain information on during my robotics club. I want to incorporate these into my future classroom by having the ability to make my students gain problem-solving skills as well as critical thinking skills. 

Outside Learning

For my outside learning, I looked up an article that discusses robotics teams at elementary schools.  This is something that is important to have at a school and can have the ability to really allow the students to gain problem-solving skills along with critical thinking skills. This would be a great way to add something to our school (if they do not already have it). 

Tweets

This tweet discusses an article from Edutopia that will allow you to look at 16 quick brain breaks to help your students get a break from learning and refresh their mind so they have the ability to continue to learn to the best of their ability!

This tweet discussed using an app to help students during a unit label different parts of the trees that the students made out of construction material. I think this is a great way to allow the students to get a hands-on learning activity but also have the ability to incorporate technology for learning. 

This was an event that the school robotics team hosted for all the students to have an ability to show off their robotics team and everything that they have been doing. I think this is a great way to get the entire school involved within the robotics team even though not everyone will be a part of the team. 

Current Event 

For this week, I wanted to look up an article that would really WOW students if you shared it with them. For this week I found an article that discussed mosquitoes and how they are surfing winds from Africa. This can allow the students to gain some sort of global awareness (having to know where the mosquitos are coming from) as well as gain more information about something that all my students encounter within their lives. 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mosquitoes-winds-africa-sahel-malaria