What is the word written in Box A?

What does it mean?

Let us make an acrostic of this word in BOX B. Letters C and U are already given.
 BOX A  C- Children are curious in nature
 U- Understanding their nature is
important
 R-
 I-
 O-
 S-
 I-
 T-
 Y-
BOX B
 How Students Learn Science?
Curiosity—Why? How? What?
 Kids are highly curious about the world around them. Any
parent knows that at a very early age kids begin to ask lots of
“why” questions. Their questions have to do with real life and
are therefore important to them. Why do trees lose their
leaves? How fast does a ball roll downhill? What creatures live
in the soil? These questions are also the beginning of the
learning process. We promote learning by inspiring, feeding
and directing, their curiosity and questions. We suppress
learning by ignoring or discouraging their questions.
Finding Answers, Developing Skills
 Kids are also astute observers. They automatically
observe, think, and do. In naturally seeking real answers
to their real questions kids progress further into the
learning process. As a result, they begin to develop
science skills such as observing, classifying, reasoning,
and predicting. We further promote learning by helping
children to develop these science skills, which will
benefit them throughout their life.
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 Whether kids are walking in a park, playing with a ball, or digging in the dirt, they are
fully engaged in questioning, observing, testing, thinking, and learning. They are in a
sense “doing science”. Kids learn science in a superior way when we direct their
natural curiosity and build upon their developing science skills to actually do real
science hands-on. Simply stated, the best way for kids to learn science is by doing
real science. A child can get scientific facts or even knowledge from a book.
However, they are fully immersed in the learning process when they do science.

 Getting hands on with learning science also reinforces the highly beneficial “inquiry
process”. They start out posing a question to explore, move on to gathering
information, interpret their findings, and report their findings. Each of these stages is
fluid, not linear, and results in revision after revision. With a hands-on approach to
science, instead of finding the easy answers, students are inspired to ask questions
about the world around them and apply this method to solve their own problems.
What is “Real Science?”
 Real science is learning about the world through hands-on
observation, experimentation, and discovery.
 Doing real science starts with a question, followed by
activities to explore and to seek an answer.
 Real science isn’t just for the classroom but is part of
everyday life.
 Real science develops skills, ability, and capacity, not just
knowledge.
Reasons Why Teaching Becomes a Failure
 Mistake #1: Don’t Be Too Quick to Give “Just the Facts”
A common mistake by parents and teachers is to only
provide facts or a quick answer to a child’s question. While this
is sometimes helpful and often convenient, it results in a stunted
learning experience. It also trains our kids to find and give
answers without really thinking through and understanding the
how or why. Why do the hard work of thinking through a
problem if I can find an easy answer through an internet
search? It’s no wonder U.S. kids underperform about half than
the developed world in science assessments.
How to Inspire Curiosity
 It’s critical that we do the hard work of encouraging kids’ curiosity and
engaging them in the science process when they ask questions. We do this
by in turn asking them questions to help kids see what they already know,
what they think, what they need to learn, or what they need to do to answer
their own question. Questions like:

 What do you think?

 How does it work?
 Why do you think that?
 What is the cause?
 What would happen if…?
 How might we test it to see if it’s true?
Simple Tools of the Science Trade
 We can feed this curiosity and inspire kids to do real science by
providing tools to help them engage in science discovery for
themselves. These tools can be as simple as a jar to observe insects, a
magnifying glass to examine the parts of a flower, or a notebook to
record their questions, ideas, and observations. Providing more
elaborate science tools like a rock pick, insect net, lab equipment, or a
microscope inspire kids to continue science discovery as their curiosity,
questions and science skills develop. Because kids are looking for
answers to their questions every day, it is important to provide science
tools at home as well as in the classroom.
Mistake #2: Keeping too Close to the
Science “Recipe”
 A second mistake we make as parents and teachers is to
think of hands-on activities or experiments as cookie-
cutter events — just follow the steps and get the result.
This also stunts the learning experience and inhibits
development of science skills. When we treat science
activities as recipes to follow we teach kids that if
something doesn’t work then give up or write it off as a
bad idea.
Don’t Be Afraid of Mistakes

 Most progress in science occurs by learning from failures — thinking

about the experiment or test that went wrong and trying to decide why it
didn’t work and what should be done differently the next time for it to
work. Think about famous scientific discoveries that came out of so-
called “failures,” like the discovery of penicillin, the invention of plastic,
or even the pacemaker — all of which came out of “accidents” in the
scientific process (see 9 Brilliant Inventions Made by Mistake). As we
teach our kids science, we want them to become skilled in learning from
what didn’t work and in persevering to try again. These are skills that
will benefit them throughout their life.
 Science and Everyday Life
 Thinking and science skills are best developed when
hands-on activities or experiments are fully integrated into
the learning process, rather than optional add-on or recipe
activities. We don’t want our kids to grow up being recipe
(or experiment) testers, but rather recipe creators. This is
how we give our children not just a love for learning about
the world we live in but also the skills to pursue that love
to learn more every day.
 Evaluation
 Directions:Answer the following questions.Write only the letter of your answer.

 1.It means a desire to know or learn

 A.Curiosity
 B.Observant
 C.Curious
 2.Everything talks about Real Science except:
 A.It is learning about the world through hands-on
observation,experimentation ,and discovery
 B.Doing real science does not start with a question,does not follow activities
to explore and to seek an answer.
 C.Real science isn’t just for the classroom but is part of everyday life
 3.A common mistake by parents and teachers why teaching becomes a failure.
 A.Giving quick response to a child’s question

 B.Encouraging kid’s curiosity
 C.Engaging them in the science process when they ask questions

 4.How we can feed curiosity and inspire kids to do real science?

 A.By providing tools to help them engage in science discovery for themselves
 B.By providing more elaborate science tools
 C.All of the above

 5.When does thinking and science skills are best developed?

A.By giving hands-on activities or experiments as cookie-cutter events—
just follow the steps and get the result thing
B.By treating science activities as recipes to follow; we teach kids that if
something doesn’t work then give up or write it off as a bad idea
C.By giving hands-on activities or experiments that are fully integrated
into the learning process
Source: https://learning center –
center.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-learn-science/

Key to Correction:
1.A. 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.C

Presenter:

Liezl C. Cacao
BEEd III-A