Looking back to the Good Ol Days

While writing my scientific me autobiography, it brought back a lot of fond memories of the science teachers that I have had throughout the my schooling years. Science was always one of my favorite subjects and I believe that is why I am excited to be taking this class. There were a lot of specific lessons that I can remember that were taught by certain teachers, such as the reduction and oxidation lesson in chemistry my sophomore year. I can remember the dance and song my teacher would perform for us and it has really stuck with me to this very day. I want to be that kind of teacher. One that when children look back they will remember me for being a bit eccentric, but they will still carry the lessons I taught with them. I want to be able to make an impact on children's lives to help them succeed in the future as my teachers have done for me. I feel teachers have one of the most important jobs, educating them such that they can leave school with an understanding of the world. I'm glad that writing Scientific Me was one of the first assignments of the year because I believe it made me a more conscientious students throughout the semester. I want to become a great teacher so that my students can all potentially be in my position one day.

Breaking the Ice!!! (figurtively of course..)

The second day of the semester, and the first day of the class. Everyone at least once in their lives is nervous to meet new people in a new situation. That's how I was this first day. Usually I feel ridiculous playing ice breakers, making up goofy names for myself like, kangaroo Katharine, or coming up with some adjective that describes me, but I like how we introduced ourselves on our first day of science methods. We have name tags, but we were told to introduce ourselves to someone in our group, and then we had to tell the class about that person. It's different when you have to remember specific details about a person and not just telling the class two lies and a truth. By writing the different beliefs about what science was on the back of our name cards, it really got us engaged in thinking what science is about and our own personal experiences dealing with science in elementary, middle, and high school. After the first day, i've been really noticing things about my environment, such as the weather, and how geographical location affects the weather. I'm really excited to be taking Science Methods; I feel like it will give me the chance to exeriment and look for answers like I did in previous grades.