Fun experiments make "Science" fun!
When you were a student, did you like science subject? When I was a student, science was not my favorite/fun subject to study because it has lots of terms/facts to remember, and for me, the subject was far from "fun subject","interesting subject".
When I was an University student and when I did student teacher for high school student for English classes in Japan, I found that making the classes fun and give students chance to think by themselves and speak out if they had something they did not understood were the best way to keep the students who often spend time napping on the desk, or students who are concentrating on copying all words I used to translate the English phrases to Japanese phrases etc.
While I was a student teacher, I spent some week observing how real teacher carry classes and then, when observation time was up,each student teacher was asked to carry the classes and real teachers were observing classes and gave us student teacher suggestions or opinions on classes.
In Japan, at the particular high school I was at for student teacher program, teachers had pre determined pages they wanted to cover during specific term and when end of term was getting closer, they did not care how much students were understanding pages they covered in classes and just cared for the pages they needed to cover before the term finish. This is one thing that I did not like about. I felt that giving students a chance to speak out,give them opportunity to think by themselves really make difference in communication level and level of interests in the subject.
I went to University in Osaka, outside the prefecture where the high school was located and the high school that I have graduated from was the school I did student teacher for, but came back with an Osakan Dialect/accent and students loved the accent I have picked up in the regions I was living in for University. This is similar to a US student living up north going to a school in the south and picking up a southern accent.
Very first class I stood in front of class as student teacher to carry the English class, I gave them blank papers to write down suggestions on English classes ,many students wrote they want me to carry classes with the dialect I have picked up so, I did and I covered each textbook page much slower than real teacher and made sure students really understood what we were trying to cover with the textbook. I also called many students names in the class asking questions, or came up some fun games etc .. so former nappers in the class were not napping in the class and it was fun for me also to teach classes.
So, I think that for teachers, making subject fun and interesting with various way is important and it helps students to learn subjects better.
Now, recently, when I was flipping TV channels, I came across TV show segment that elementary school's science teacher was demonstrating the experiments to let his students learn science fun ways. I thought it was cool and fun, and I would like to share what I saw with you.
Science Bob Science Demonstration Part I
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from facebook,please click here to watch the video.
Science Bob Science Demonstration Part II
You can find more of Science bob's cool experiments at his science bob.com website here .
He has his blog too, and I found the static dancing ghost experiment there. I think if you have kids, they would love these experiments.You can find how to on "static powered dancing ghost" here .
When I was an University student and when I did student teacher for high school student for English classes in Japan, I found that making the classes fun and give students chance to think by themselves and speak out if they had something they did not understood were the best way to keep the students who often spend time napping on the desk, or students who are concentrating on copying all words I used to translate the English phrases to Japanese phrases etc.
While I was a student teacher, I spent some week observing how real teacher carry classes and then, when observation time was up,each student teacher was asked to carry the classes and real teachers were observing classes and gave us student teacher suggestions or opinions on classes.
In Japan, at the particular high school I was at for student teacher program, teachers had pre determined pages they wanted to cover during specific term and when end of term was getting closer, they did not care how much students were understanding pages they covered in classes and just cared for the pages they needed to cover before the term finish. This is one thing that I did not like about. I felt that giving students a chance to speak out,give them opportunity to think by themselves really make difference in communication level and level of interests in the subject.
I went to University in Osaka, outside the prefecture where the high school was located and the high school that I have graduated from was the school I did student teacher for, but came back with an Osakan Dialect/accent and students loved the accent I have picked up in the regions I was living in for University. This is similar to a US student living up north going to a school in the south and picking up a southern accent.
Very first class I stood in front of class as student teacher to carry the English class, I gave them blank papers to write down suggestions on English classes ,many students wrote they want me to carry classes with the dialect I have picked up so, I did and I covered each textbook page much slower than real teacher and made sure students really understood what we were trying to cover with the textbook. I also called many students names in the class asking questions, or came up some fun games etc .. so former nappers in the class were not napping in the class and it was fun for me also to teach classes.
So, I think that for teachers, making subject fun and interesting with various way is important and it helps students to learn subjects better.
Now, recently, when I was flipping TV channels, I came across TV show segment that elementary school's science teacher was demonstrating the experiments to let his students learn science fun ways. I thought it was cool and fun, and I would like to share what I saw with you.
Science Bob Science Demonstration Part I
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from facebook,please click here to watch the video.
Science Bob Science Demonstration Part II
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from facebook,please click here to watch the video.
You can find more of Science bob's cool experiments at his science bob.com website here .
He has his blog too, and I found the static dancing ghost experiment there. I think if you have kids, they would love these experiments.You can find how to on "static powered dancing ghost" here .
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