Science Education Matters
The purpose of this website is to give ideas of how to teach advance concepts in biology and geology to elementary students.
I hope you take the time to explore this blog, I have tried to provid teaching materials and experiences from my photosynthesis lessons as well as my Michigan glacial landform lessons. Please give this lessons and activities a try and let me know how you like them. I have a comment page which is open to those you have tried the lessons or have questions about utilizing the lessons.
Thank you for visiting and I hope you have fun exploring plant photosynthesis as well as glaciers.
About Me
My name is Jill Fuhrman
I currently finishing up my Integrated Science Major, Geology Minor, and Elementary Education Concentration from Albion College Dec '09.
These lessons were created as a part of Albion College's Integrated Science Curriculum. The lessons included on this website are paired with boxes that are located in the Albion College Education Office and can be checked out to anyone interested. You must be within the Albion, MI area inorder to pick up the box(es). Just contact the Education office via this website: http://www.albion.edu/education/
Inquiry Based Learning
Using the 5 Essential Features of Inquiry as described by the National Research Council in 2000, these hands-on lab experiments will be able to include each of the inquiry steps.
1. Learners are engaged by scientifically oriented questions
2. Learners give priority to evidence, which allows them to develop and evaluate explanations that address scientifically oriented questions.
3. Learners formulate explanations from evidence to address scientifically orientated questions
4. Learners evaluate their explanations in light of alternative explanations, particularly those reflecting scientific understanding
5. Learners communicate and justify their proposed explanations.
**Within each of the lessons these 5 steps of inquiry are included and indicated as: (questions), (priority to evidence), (explanations), (evaluate explanations), and (communicate and justify) respectively.
