Teaching Science 3-5th Grade

1. Asking and answering questions

1.1. Having students use productive questions

1.2. Questions that further the conversation and give students more of an insight into the topic.

1.3. Probing questions can help students to further the conversation

1.4. Teachers and students cna use the how and why questions. But only in a way that is beneficial to help students learning.

1.5. When having students ask questions and using their ideas you have to answer students minconceptions by showing the evidence to try to make new ideas.

2. Getting children to plan and start interpereting investigations

2.1. Helpign student to start with a question on inquiry

2.2. Help children to plan their experiments

2.3. Help stuedent to interpert what they find

2.4. Show students how to organize their ideas in order to interpurt data

3. Observations

3.1. Have students to look for main points as well as the small details.

3.2. Give students enough time to properly look adn gather observations.

3.3. Give the students proper guidelines in order to have them try to take a lot of observaions.

3.4. Details

3.5. Simularities and differences

3.6. Sequences in events

3.7. Patterns

3.8. They extend the knowledge for students

3.9. Help students to draw conclusions

4. Having students communicate their ideas

4.1. Helping to facilitate discussions between students

4.2. Helping students to answer each others questions

4.3. Using disucssion and question to help engage students in the lesson

4.4. Have student communicate also through models and drawings.

5. How to properly assess students

5.1. It is imporant to use formative assessments in order to assess where students are affter the differnet lessons in order to adjust your teaching

5.2. You can assess in not just written but also in lab settings and through models

6. Notebook and Journaling

6.1. these are great to keeps students ideas in

6.2. They can keep record of diffenet experiemnts

6.3. Can write questiosn they have for more ideas to look at later on

7. FIeld Trips

7.1. They are important for getting kids to get real life experieces

7.2. Students can learn a lot from visiting differnet places and create a lot of different backgroud informations.

7.3. You can take students to a lot of differnet places in order to expand on their knowledge froe their lessons.