John Aschenbrenner- Elementary Science Methods 1

 1. This week we learned a lot about turtles. First, we read a book about all the hardships that turtles face after they are born. These hardships can range anywhere from natural hardships like sharks and raccoons to manmade hardships like jeeps and the wrong light misdirecting them. We then did an activity where we played a baby turtle and attempted to survive these hardships with almost all of us failing. This showed just how much of an issue there is for baby turtles to make it to adulthood and why parents lay so many eggs. We also checked in on our fast plants to see their growth, we have a lot of flowers and the plant has grown quite a bit.  2. I was able to relate what I knew about turtles to what we learned. I knew that baby turtles go through a lot of obstacles in order to reach adulthood and that is why the parents lay a lot of eggs so that way at least maybe a couple can make it I just never realized how much of an effect humans have had on those challenges and made ...

 1. This week we started by taking a look at our fast plants and the butterflies that are finally there. Then we moved on to talking about Ecology and environments and biomes. We then covered a lot of the time looking at food chains and food webs and developing models of a food chain of our choice. We also talked about the 10% rule that occurs within the food chain when looking at the transfer of energy from each being to another when they are eaten.  2. I was able to relate what I already knew about food chains to what we learned. Ever since I was a kid I have been really into animals and have always found them interesting and as a result, know a lot. I already knew about apex predators and how the food chain setup works but I did not know about the 10% rule. After learning it made sense though given how much food the top predators have to eat.  4. I can apply what I learned to my future teaching through the use of combining math and science when looking at the 10% rule ...

 1.This week I learned about the 5E Model of education. In this method there are 5 stages that each start with the letter E. The first one is engage where the goal is to gain the students attention. The second one is explore where students explore the concept through activities. The third one is explain where this is the direct instruction phase. The fourth one is elaborate where generalizations about the new learning is applied applied to previous investigations. The final one is evaluate where you test learners learning to see what knowledge they gained. We also looked at our fast plants growth this week.  3. I was able to find most of the steps on the 5E system pretty clear. Especially the ones like evaluate and explore. I was a little confused on the elaborate section just because the explanation seemed pretty vague and did not provide clear examples of what it looked like. I would like to see in a classroom what that looks like.  4. I could use the 5E system that we ...

 1. The first thing we did was we went over life cycles and specifically we started with learning about the life cycles of animals and insects like butterflies. So to represent that my group and I made a model of a turtles life cycle starting at an egg and moving to a hatchling then juvenile and finally adult. After that, we moved on to the life cycle of a plant. To represent that we planted a couple of fast seeds to watch grow over the next couple of weeks. We also looked at the beans we planted last week to see how they had germinated in one week.  2. I was able to relate what I knew about the life cycle to what I already learned because of what we did in elementary school. When I was in 3rd grade we were given butterfly eggs to keep and grow in our science class. Each day we took care of them and were able to watch them hatch and develop into caterpillars then watch them make their chrysalis and eventually become butterflies and then let them go. So I was able to relate tha...