Final Blog!
Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog! Sad to say that this is in fact my last reflection on STEM education in the classroom. This week I am excited to speak about a very fun science related activity that was done in class! During this class, the focus was on teaching science in classrooms in an inquiry-based way and allowing students to take agency in their learning. Inquiry is not about invented context or external motivators but about framing the world that learners already inhabit (Davis et al. , 2019). The above pictures are ones that were taken on a walk around Brock University. In pairs, we were looking for things around campus that as teachers we would find interesting. Then back in class, we came up with questions that students may ask about these pictures. From this, we came up with short lesson plan ideas that could be implemented to create a hands-on learning experience for children. My partner and I came up with a lesson that focused on the surrounding are