What We're Up To Part 1: Science

Science

Teachers aren’t the only ones who teach. Well at least not in our class. Sometimes we students teach science to the class and our teachers. We are assigned to this almost every week. It is interesting and we have fun doing it. For the last couple of months we have been doing these projects on posters, but just this week we started doing the project with the choice of a play, a commercial, a newscast, or even a song. Most of us enjoy doing this instead of the posters. We enjoy it more because it is more exciting to us.

Some of the poster categories were Biomes, Changes in Ecosystems, Cycles in Ecosystems, Water Ecosystems and much more. The categories we have now are Earths Landforms, Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Shaping Earth’s Surface. The majority of our classmates chose a play or a commercial and very few chose the other choices. Some of our classmates chose to do a play with a song or a newscast with a commercial.

When we use posters we can draw pictures or examples of what we are talking about. It can be something funny but it has to be educational and it can’t be over the top. At the end of every presentation we ask for questions and comments. Usually the presenters have about twenty minutes to take questions.

Before each lesson, our teacher tells us to be ready with a few questions to ask to the group. It takes so long to ask questions because in the end people end up asking about 4 questions each. We think this way of learning science is more interesting and entertaining and makes it more fun to learn science.

Shaniah, Mary May, Indiyah, Luke and Kameron