Week 4: Reading Responce
While reading these articles my 5th and 6th grade teacher kept coming to my mind. Science in early elementary was definitely this Activitymania idea, where we would play with tinker toys, tape fingers together to see how important your thumb is, or the classic butterfly unit. These were all individual occurrences with little regularity in the curriculum. My 5th and 6th grade homeroom teacher, Mr. Motz, was the science teacher for the 5th and 6th grade. This meant that we got to spend every afternoon doing science, and I mean doing science. Reflecting upon it he used an inquiry based model, whether that is building the best straw structure or allowing us to create and develop our own experiment over flower growth (I used my family's compost instead of fertilizer and the plants actually produced more flowers and seeds). I remember almost every science inquiry we did in that class and it is almost a decade later. When I came to college I feel that I really saw an impact on how this ap...