Week 1- Why Should We Learn Science?
Week 1- Why Learn Science? Big Q of the Week : This week during lab we looked at two different "big questions". We started our discussion with, why should we learn science? Our table discussed that science covers a variety of topics and involves many areas of schooling. Through science we read, write, problem solve, conduct mathematical equations, create and test hypotheses, collaborate with others, etc. During science, students are feeding their curiosity, asking questions and creating solutions, and discovering the world around them. Science is not only essential to school, but also allows students to study real life experiences. The other major question we looked at was, how can we ensure that a race is exciting? We watched a video of The Freeze from the Atlanta Braves baseball games and studied what they did to make the races against the freeze, close. We noticed that he would give his opponent a certain head start and the races were close and exciting. Then, we were...