Science PLD
I've really been enjoying our whole school science PLD. I feel like science has changed a great deal since I first started teaching, and children get very excited about it. I love the way scientists love questions - even if the answers are unknown as yet. An important focus that we've been taught is observations. How children can use all senses (except taste) to make observations about different things. Our first study was about Autumn leaves. How each leaf looked, smelt, and felt different. Why was that? The leaves came from the same tree, so why were they different? Children came up with amazing questions and very interesting answers - my sister cam e from the same parents as me but looks different. The questions that the children came up with got themselves very inquisitive and excited about what may be the answers. Our next step is inferencing. Asking ourselves 'Why' did we make that observation? Where can we see the evidence of this observation? I'm looking fo...