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Interactive Science | Interactive Notes- Conserving Land, Water, And Air
Always IllustrateIt’s our firm belief here that almost everything in science has a simple explanation, and the best ones include a demonstration with a reference to something students are already familiar with. Have you ever sat and listened to a speaker who confused you? In your mind you might have thought, “Why don’t you show me what you’re talking about. Give me an illustration, please!” If they finally did give an illustration, then you remember your anxiety letting down. Remember to use word pictures often, because that’s how our minds learn best, and also because there’s usually a student in your classroom looking at you starving for an illustration but saying nothing. PrioritiesWe want you to know that every set of teacher notes is based on actual events written by the science teacher who performed the lesson, and was recorded the same night it was taught so the details would be preserved. That’s why the “voice” in the lesson seems real, like it actually did what it’s describing. It wasn’t always convenient to do it this way, but our standard is excellence and we feel we couldn’t give you an excellent product any other way. We hope you don’t mind, but to keep your teacher notes from becoming overly-complicated, we chose not to pass them through an English department for a grammar check. Nor were they sent to the local university to be corrected. While we hope there aren’t many mistakes, that’s still not our main concern. All we care is that our lessons actually work in the classroom. Some teacher guides are so sophisticated and overdone that you have trouble making sense of them, and a perfectly good lesson can be lost when it’s “over-decorated”. We just wanted ours to be clear, and good enough to be taught “right off the page”. Other Life Science Lessons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
