Abby Borth- Elementary Science Methods

  1. This week in lab, we learned about living things and their characteristics. After discussing the 8 core characteristics of living things and how to differentiate between living and nonliving things, we started our first activity. To visualize the characteristics of living things, we created an anchor chart in our groups that listed the eight characteristics with an explanation and picture to go along with it. Through this I was able to learn more and refresh my memory on these characteristics. I learned the characteristics are cellular composition, genetics and heredity, maintaining homeostasis, growth and change, movement, responding to stimuli, metabolism, and reproduction. I also learned how to define these characteristics in my own words. I was also able to learn more about the difference between dormant and active by looking at seeds. We germinated seeds so we can watch them grow into seedlings. I also learned about the structure of seeds through our seed dissection activ...

  1. The question that we investigated in this lab was, "What would you like your future classroom to look like?" While designing our classrooms some other questions we thought about were the resources that we wanted to provide students, what we valued as a future educator, and something that makes it unique to us such as a favorite color.  2. To investigate the question of what we would like our future classroom to look like, we were paired into groups. In these groups, we were given a piece of paper to model what we would like our classroom to look like. We were able to brainstorm with each other about what we would like in our future classroom before modeling it on a piece of paper and sharing our ideas with the class.  3. I figured out through our question and investigation an idea of what my future classroom would look like and what I would like to include in it. I was able to figure out that I would like my desks arranged in groups for collaboration among stude...