Amber Embrock Science Methods 1

This week in the lab we look at our fast-growing plants. It has been about 20 days, and our plants have  already grown so much!  This week in the lab we look at our fast-growing plants. It has been about 20 days, and our plants have already grown so much! This is the plant and it is pretty tall. It still does have some yellow leaves but it does not seem to be affecting the plant. Since the plant is halfway done going through its full cycle I am excited to see what fully grown looks like since I have never seen this plant before.  In class today we talked a lot about sea turtles. We read a book about how a turtle's life experience, and all the struggles it encounters. For example, turtles have natural and human experiences that can affect them, both positively and negatively. Some natural experiences that are dangerous for turtles are predators, while human experiences that are dangerous for turtles are littering. Although there are some negatives both nature and humans ca...

 This week in the lab we observed our fast-growing plants again. Our plants grew quite a bit more which I was not expecting.  We have buds growing at the end of our stems, so hopefully, we will be seeing a flower soon. One of our leaves started looking a little yellow, which I was worried about last week since we did not water them.  Another thing in the lab that we did was looking at a 5E model activity. In this activity, we graded the activity using a rubric on a scale from 1-4. Altogether this activity that we were looking at was decent but could be improved.  How does this apply to the future? I can see myself looking at a rubric like this to measure how interactive and engaging my activity is. The rubric has a section and rating for all of the 5 E's that should be modeled in a lesson. By analyzing my lesson plan, I can determine if it meets the standards I was aiming for, as well as see if it is something student-centered and interesting for my students.  W...

 This week in the Science lab we look at the plants we planted last week. Our plant has grown into a little sprout. It has only been a week and our plant has grown way faster than I thought. We put our plant back into the light incubator without watering it. Remaining question: Will our plant continue to grow if we did not water it? In the lab, we also discussed the 5E model of instruction. The 5E model includes: engaging, exploring, explaining, elaborating, and evaluating.  Engage: Activities that capture the student's attention Explore: Helps students build off the prior knowledge they have Explain: Providing information about a concept being taught Elaborate: Having students apply the knowledge that was learned Evaluate: Testing knowledge and abilities learned The 5E model is an effective tool to incorporate into a teacher's lesson plan. The 5E model allows teachers to create unique learning experiences for students. Using the 5E model students draw connections to prior kno...

 This week in lab we were discussing the butterfly cycle and how it connects to the characteristics of living things. From what we learned last week, one of the 8 characteristics of living things is growth and development. A life cycle is a series of changes in an organism's life. For the activity we did today, we made life cycles out of play dough. My partner and I decided to make a turtle life cycle.  The stages of a turtle's life cycle are eggs, hatchlings, juveniles, and adults. We were then looking at the life cycles of plants. Plants go through a life cycle of seeds, seedlings, then plants. To look at this life cycle, we are planting fast plants.  From what I learned/did this week in the lab, I can apply it to my future teaching lessons. I really enjoyed making the life cycle of animals out of play dough. It is interactive and hands-on. I can see myself using this in my future classroom, or even making it a drawing. I liked the play dough aspect though since it was ...