Trying Technological Teaching

In my Elementary Science Curriculum and Instruction coursework this semester, my excitement to teach science was shaped into a realistic view of what it might look like. This is an intimidating prospect, but a good one. I have learned a lot this semester about teaching science. Students will walk into my classroom ready for class on the first day of school not really knowing what they are in for. Teaching science is about teaching a way of thinking. It is about teaching an interest in the world around you that these kids already have. They may have suppressed it, given their environments and given their expectation that they are supposed to be orderly and follow rules in school. Do not get me wrong, I will have an orderly classroom (hopefully), but there were moments this semester when I was teaching science when it felt as though these kids were so scared to break the rules that they forgot to explore what was around them. I certainly need to figure out how exactly this balance will work, but I am excited to set it up. Science is a controlled curiosity in the world; kids have the most curious minds of anyone. I will do my best to harness this in my classroom and organize student centered inquiry based learning that helps them to come to an understanding of content as well as form an idea of what science really is.