Goodbye, students!

My science class has finally left the elementary school. There is no more teaching to be done there; fieldwork is over. It was a great experience though. I learned a lot about how to teach science as well as how to learn it. The key ingredients to teaching science are 'inquiry' and 'engagement.' When my group taught the whole class by ourselves, we used inquiry to capture their attention. We did this by asking multiple questions to get them thinking about chemical changes. We also played a video for them which was engaging. The video was a great way to engage the class because it was all about chemical changes so they got to see things explode. To their disappointment however, we didn't blow anything up. It was bitter sweet to leave them on Friday. I was going to miss the students but I left with a lot of knowledge about teaching science.