Friday, February 25, 2011

Science Teaching Strategies

  For the science article assignment  I decided to  read about  a  strategy  used to  help students learn science. This  sparked  my  interest in other strategies. So  I  found a couple that  I thought  would be  useful for an elementary  classroom. One of the strategies was the  five E’s . The first step  of the  five  E strategy  is to  engage  the  children. Next  invite the children to  explore  a  little. Then  have the children explain what they have learned and  elaborate on it . The  final step  is  to  evaluate student work .  this  strategy   seems  to  be  the  most  commonly  used  in   the  classroom. Another  strategy  is to have students  make  plays  of what they learned . This  strategy  is  great  because  it  gives the  children a chance to  teach what they have learned  to  others  and  this   is  one of the  best  ways  children learn.  Another strategy  is the POE Strategy. The  P  in the strategy stands  for  Prediction in this  step  students predict what  is  going to happen. Next the  children Observe what  happens . The  final  step  is to  explain  children  explain  if their  prediction was  correct , what they  observed and  why they  think  the  outcome  happened. 
 Some other ideas  for  helping to teach science  are  by  doing case studies, role playing,  making  board games, web quests , virtual field trips, cyber guides , concept maps , Vee diagrams and  multimedia presentations.
 All  of these  strategies and ideas  seem  like  they  would  be  great  to  impliment in the  class room .

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