I aspire to be a hands on teacher who emphasizes fundamental science concepts and skills. I would like my students to be able to take what they've learned from my courses and be able to think critically and apply logical reasoning to what they hear in the media or experience themselves.
Along with analytic skills, I hope to inspire lifelong learning and foster curiosity. I firmly believe that the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. I want to model to my students that you can find interesting things in any topic.
The following are articles and online resources that both with my reasons for wanting to focus my teaching on scientific process skills and attitudes as well as links to articles detail how to teach the scientific process.
Along with analytic skills, I hope to inspire lifelong learning and foster curiosity. I firmly believe that the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. I want to model to my students that you can find interesting things in any topic.
The following are articles and online resources that both with my reasons for wanting to focus my teaching on scientific process skills and attitudes as well as links to articles detail how to teach the scientific process.
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Articles:
The Case for Curiosity
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb13/vol70/num05/The-Case-for-Curiosity.aspx
Teaching the Process of Science: Faculty Perceptions and an Effective Methodology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995770/
The Science Process Skills
http://www.narst.org/publications/research/skill.cfm
Moving Students From Information Recitation to Information Understanding: Exploiting
Bloom's Taxonomy in Creating Science Questions
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/research/cwsei/resources/Lord%26Baviskar-Blooms.pdf
Breaking Into Inquiry: Scaffolding supports beginning efforts to implement inquiry in the classroom
http://www.brown.edu/ce/adult/arise/resources/docs/Breaking%20into%20Inquiry.pdf
The Case for Curiosity
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb13/vol70/num05/The-Case-for-Curiosity.aspx
Teaching the Process of Science: Faculty Perceptions and an Effective Methodology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995770/
The Science Process Skills
http://www.narst.org/publications/research/skill.cfm
Moving Students From Information Recitation to Information Understanding: Exploiting
Bloom's Taxonomy in Creating Science Questions
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/research/cwsei/resources/Lord%26Baviskar-Blooms.pdf
Breaking Into Inquiry: Scaffolding supports beginning efforts to implement inquiry in the classroom
http://www.brown.edu/ce/adult/arise/resources/docs/Breaking%20into%20Inquiry.pdf
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Online resources I find informative or useful:
Practicing Science Process Skills at Home: A Handbook for Parents
http://www.nsta.org/elementaryschool/connections/200712TorresHandoutParentNSTAConn.pdf
The Scientific Method, The Design Process & How Both Apply to Innovation
http://questgarden.com/130/84/7/120717132000/process.htm
Science Lesson Plans (primary)
http://www.primary-education-oasis.com/science-lesson-plans.html#.UeH_FRYTHzI
Misinterpretations of the scientific process
http://undsci.berkeley.edu/teaching/misconceptions.php
Understanding by Design
http://egarlieb.wikispaces.com/Understanding+by+Design
Deductive Reasoning
http://explorable.com/deductive-reasoning
Do Brain-Based Principles Apply in the Digital Age?
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/110018/chapters/Do_Brain-Based_Principles_Apply_in_the_Digital_Age¢.aspx
Logic & Inquiry: Chapter 1 Notes
http://www.thinkingshop.com/Clarion/logic/chap1.htm