![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melwilAs a primary teacher I teach everything - reading, writing, maths, social studies, arts, health, technology and science. Over the last four years, I've been reflecting on my teaching and improving wherever I can. And now I'm attacking science.
The thing is - at one point in time I loved science. As in, I got the best marks in my grade in science. But then came Year 11 subject choice time, and I couldn't do my preferred Physics, (I did Chemistry instead) and somewhere along the line, I stopped being enthralled by it.
Which makes it hard to teach it with the kind of passion it deserves.
I'm also let down by a lackluster syllabus and a severe lack of equipment/materials.
But I'm determined. I am, with whatever is accessible to me, going to put together science workshops for the students in which they can explore and investigate with as much hands on stuff as possible. If I could only work out where to begin.
Where would you begin? With the syllabus? With a list of questions? With experiments? And how can I get past my learned ambivalence about science to love it again. I know there are science-y people on here - please help me!!
The thing is - at one point in time I loved science. As in, I got the best marks in my grade in science. But then came Year 11 subject choice time, and I couldn't do my preferred Physics, (I did Chemistry instead) and somewhere along the line, I stopped being enthralled by it.
Which makes it hard to teach it with the kind of passion it deserves.
I'm also let down by a lackluster syllabus and a severe lack of equipment/materials.
But I'm determined. I am, with whatever is accessible to me, going to put together science workshops for the students in which they can explore and investigate with as much hands on stuff as possible. If I could only work out where to begin.
Where would you begin? With the syllabus? With a list of questions? With experiments? And how can I get past my learned ambivalence about science to love it again. I know there are science-y people on here - please help me!!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
on 2010-01-30 01:29 pm (UTC)I'm a primary teacher too, but I work as an MFL specialist teacher so I only teach science when I'm on supply.
I would certainly start by looking at the units of work for my year group and then extracting whatever experiments I could from it. We know that the experiments are what capture the children's interest and can open the way for a better understanding of the theoretical concepts - especially for the kinaesthetic learners.
Under resourcing is a definite problem for science, but there are lots of schemes that offer ideas with resources that can be found around school generally, or you could consider trying interactive experiments from the net (always a good way to get in some ICT!)
That's all I can think of for now, but I want to commend you for wanting to get your enjoyment of science back. I think that shows a real respect for your children and makes me believe you're a great teacher.
Good luck!