Nature of Science
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Ask "how do you know?" in appropriate situations.
This is obviously a particularly difficult blog for us because most of our classes do not get to partake in science lessons. I finally saw my first science lesson in my class, but it was not by my CT, it was by her partner. I am in a double, co-teach classroom.
To start, this lesson does not really fit the standard that well (and maybe you can help me see if it fits a different one and I am just missing it) but this is the only lesson I was able to work from because they rarely do science in my class. I plan to do my own very soon for my Supervisor Observation and I am very excited to integrate the NOS standards.
So, the teacher was going off of a lesson that was explaining how all mammals’ offspring resemble their parents. I chose this NOS standard because I think the way it could be utilized is by asking the students how they know that “that is a puppy” or “that is a kitten” with them being able to respond “because it looks like a baby dog” or “it looks like a baby cat”. For this particular lesson, she happened to read the book Baby Whales Drink Milk by Barbara Juster Esbensen, which was a little bit discouraging to the students because I heard a resounding “ew” more than once. It had a few anatomical images of the inside of whales which showed intestines. As seven-year-olds, I can see why this may have been a little discouraging.
She also played a video of whale sounds and one showing a museum with a full-sized orca whale. From there, the students had to write in their science journals three things that they had learned. I was so glad to see her incorporate the science journals. Unfortunately, the students just were not into the whole lesson.
If this was my lesson, I think I would have chosen a different book. Unfortunately, it was not the best representation of learning about mammals’ offspring resembling their parents. The NOS standard can be used in a million different ways and I honestly think I would have chosen a different lesson altogether in order to better incorporate this standard along with another.
To at least utilize the NOS standard better, I would have posed the questions to them about what they had learned with “how do you know?” From her lesson, however, I would think all the students would say the same thing, which would be “I saw it in the video” or “It was in the book”.
This is obviously a particularly difficult blog for us because most of our classes do not get to partake in science lessons. I finally saw my first science lesson in my class, but it was not by my CT, it was by her partner. I am in a double, co-teach classroom.
To start, this lesson does not really fit the standard that well (and maybe you can help me see if it fits a different one and I am just missing it) but this is the only lesson I was able to work from because they rarely do science in my class. I plan to do my own very soon for my Supervisor Observation and I am very excited to integrate the NOS standards.
So, the teacher was going off of a lesson that was explaining how all mammals’ offspring resemble their parents. I chose this NOS standard because I think the way it could be utilized is by asking the students how they know that “that is a puppy” or “that is a kitten” with them being able to respond “because it looks like a baby dog” or “it looks like a baby cat”. For this particular lesson, she happened to read the book Baby Whales Drink Milk by Barbara Juster Esbensen, which was a little bit discouraging to the students because I heard a resounding “ew” more than once. It had a few anatomical images of the inside of whales which showed intestines. As seven-year-olds, I can see why this may have been a little discouraging.
She also played a video of whale sounds and one showing a museum with a full-sized orca whale. From there, the students had to write in their science journals three things that they had learned. I was so glad to see her incorporate the science journals. Unfortunately, the students just were not into the whole lesson.
If this was my lesson, I think I would have chosen a different book. Unfortunately, it was not the best representation of learning about mammals’ offspring resembling their parents. The NOS standard can be used in a million different ways and I honestly think I would have chosen a different lesson altogether in order to better incorporate this standard along with another.
To at least utilize the NOS standard better, I would have posed the questions to them about what they had learned with “how do you know?” From her lesson, however, I would think all the students would say the same thing, which would be “I saw it in the video” or “It was in the book”.