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 One
of the challenges of teaching science is finding age-appropriate
materials for the class/grade being taught. Age-appropriate experiences
in science will allow your students to:
Expand their comprehension of scientific concepts
Learn about problem solving and critical-thinking
Maintaining positive states of mind toward learning science
Both the content and the pedagogy of your curriculum should address
the unique characteristics of the elementary school student.
Teaching science in the first grade, the children should begin
to study science by making observations, measuring things, and identifying
certain properties that are easiest to comprehend.
Teaching science in the second through fifth grades children should
gain a knowledge base and set of reasoning skills.
Such reasoning skills will culminate when teaching science in the
sixth grade with the design of controlled experiments. This is the
progression:
• Understanding scientific reasoning
• To observe, measuring, and identify certain properties
• Discover what seeking evidence is and how to do it
• They must learn to recognize patterns and cycles and how
they work
Next in teaching science children should be taught:
• To understand cause and effect
• To extend the senses
By this time in teaching science, the students will be ready to
design and conduct controlled experiments. You will first want to
conduct an experiment (or more than one) with the students. Set
up a lab and have them all work on the same project. Then you can
have them become more inventive and ask them to come up with their
own hypothesis and conduct an experiment to prove (or disprove)
it. The most rewarding part of teaching science is to see the children
not only become involved with the work, but also to see them become
exited about their experiments and interested in the results of
it.
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