Finally, A Well Planned Science Activity!

You might be wondering with all the demonstrations available out there how and why we selected the ones used in each science activity. In most cases the choice was hard to make. But here is a list of criteria we used when deciding which science activity to use:

• Each demonstration obviously need to illustrate the topic
• And work every single time it’s tried
• It shouldn’t over-excite students
• Or be complicated for you to explain or for students to do
• It also needs to be fascinating to watch
• And have the ability to hold every students’ attention while it's being done and then explained

Advantages Of Each Science Activity

Because each science activity on our cd-rom has been used for at least two years in a real classroom you know you’re getting more than just a great-sounding idea. You'll find that every science activity is without kinks and flows nicely from beginning to end. You’re also getting a thorough set of teacher notes that reflect what actually happened, and not what we hope or think will. In other words, each science activity has actual classroom experience, and that is a valuable thing.

How Each Science Activity Incorporates Reading

With the an emphasis on everything being "Interactive" and hands-on with each science activity, you’d probably guess that we put a low emphasis on reading. Not at all! If anything, there’s not enough reading in the classroom. Reading is important because it solidifies activities and adds legitimacy to them.

The approach we take is that reading is good, but reading as part of each science activity is even better! Click through the PowerPoint in a set of our Interactive Notes (you can download a set of Interactive Notes on Magnetism right now for free) and you’ll see a prompt in the lower left corner of the first couple of slides for you to insert a page number from your textbook that your class to read together from. Read any other science activity and you’ll likely to find at least one place where the class takes pause to read a paragraph or two from the textbook together. When done right, and with purpose students can see, reading is very effective.

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