Annie Ellison Science Methods Blog

  Week 4 What did you learn this week? One thing I learned this week is the importance of thinking about the order of learning experience when planning a lesson, and as a teacher, you should think about this when planning a unit lesson. I also learned that when it comes to the 5E's, both the student and the teachers have a role. That is the table we created in lab.  I also learned the meaning of Ecology, I didn't know that it was the study of the relationships between living organisms in an environment. From the lab, I also learned that dolphins use the non-living things around them, that being mud to create a net to provide a trap for their food.  Which parts did you find clear and which were confusing? The parts that are clear to me are that there are environments that have living and nonliving things in them and work together to be an ecosystem. But what confusing to me is biomes and habitats  So, a habitat is within a biome? Or can ...

Week 4 Which parts did you find clear, and which were confusing? The parts that I find clear are the importance of photosynthesis and how it is the start of the food chain. Without it, we wouldn't be able to live. I also understand why plants go through cellular respiration all the time. This makes sense because they use the oxygen and glucose they produce to generate energy, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. While humans and animals need oxygen to survive, plants use carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, keeping the cycle going. What is still confusing is the germination process. So if a seed isn't a living thing, when is the exact moment that it is alive? When it starts going through photosynthesis. It makes sense how a seed isn't the living thing but produces it, but for some reason, the whole process is just confusing.  How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future? This week, I learned that it is important to create tests that assess...

WEEK 3 What did you learn this week? Something that I learned this week is that all life cycles follow the basic pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death. That pattern is a CCC in the NGSS. I also learned about photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and the carbon cycle. And how they all come together. As well as the different aspects of the ecosystem. specifically biotic factors and Abiotic factors and what role they have in the ecosystem.  How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future? In the future, how I would apply what I learned is the ability to use modeling as a practice. I really like the use of play dough as that is a hands-on activity to allow students to visually see what they are doing but also be creative in it. I think that modeling is a great way for students to experience/create what they are learning about.  Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew?  I remember learning about photosynthesis, cellular...

WEEK 2 What did you learn this week? This week learned the 8 characteristics of a living thing. It's been so long since learning these basic facts but it was a good refresher and if I'm being honest I don't think I really knew that there were 8. I also learned about photosynthesis again, and how if we didn't have photosynthesis we wouldn't be able to live. How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future? From what I learned from the reading reflection and lab this week is that it is important to engage our students in problem-solving, explaining their thinking, and connecting it to their real worlds. By do this through interactive activities as simple as the posters we made in the lab or through experiments.  Which parts did you find clear and which were confusing? What I found clear was that plants have to go through photosynthesis to live. That is how they get energy, which is their source of food, and that they release oxygen into the air...