The Pacific Science Center came to our school today to teach science labs. It has been an exciting day of science. The 6th grade teachers decided to make it a day of science by incorperating science into all of our classes when we aren't doing the sceince center activities. I was impressed with the labs, as they use a problem-based learning appraoch to the activites. It helps brings out the students natural inquisitional minds.
One things I think they could improve on is in their whole group presntaions. For an organiztion as large as the Science Center the use of media in the assembly was non existent. All they used during the presentaiton was a small tabel up front of hundreds of students which made it difficult for everyone to see. To me it seems like they could step it up and make their presentation more exciting with video, music, and photos. The students were mildly engaged. Sceince is supposed to be exciting and students are naturally curious but, with this digital generation it is important to bring more to the table to get their attention.
Picture courtesy of http://www.pacsci.org/
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Interesting.My first guess is that they weren't as media savvy because, being mobile, they can't count on there being adequate support for tech/media wherever they find themselves. So, they go low-tech, or no-tech. Too bad.
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