Blog Post 2

Hello my fellow peers!

These past few weeks in Science Methods have been interesting and filled with so many learning experiences. My eco-column has really began to blossom and we are adding our goldfish any day now! This experiment has been really fun and interactive, and I love watering and taking care of my little ecosystem. This experiment is something I will take with me into my future classroom when integrating science. As far as my science project is going, my group is pretty bummed out. We did an elaborate experiment on how different composts affect the atmosphere and their gas output. For various reasons, this project failed and Dr.Parker suggested that we start over. So my group is currently working on that. We practiced putting the Cl-E-Vr Model into action in class. We constructed a hypothesis, made a claim, and tested out whether our claim was true or false. This tied directly into our beginning study of natural Phenomena.

A big struggle I have had in these past few weeks has been getting my head wrapped around everything that is required of me for Ed-Tpa. There are so many things that can easily go wrong if I am the least bit careless. Something as small as an incorrect margin size can leave me with an unscoreable report. That scares me a lot. I just have to keep trying my best and doing the best practice I can because practice makes perfect! I am proud of my work to stay alert and engaged in class. In previous semesters, I let myself get really overwhelmed with my education classes and almost develop "paralysis by analysis." By that, I mean that I would have so much to do, I would become paralyzed and not do anything and then end up so stressed at the last minute. I am working way ahead on all my big assignments. This has helped a lot! I think I helped to contribute to class discussion when we talked about some fine details of our EDTPA learning segments. Some of us were getting confused on the video editing portion and I think after we further discussed it, the regulations for that portion became much more clear. My 4th grade CE seems so nice already just through my introductory email and I am so excited to meet her! I tied in that we are talking about in SAAC about Hurricane Florence, with our conversations with Parker about Phenomena. We are setting up a a drive for all the athletic teams to donate as much as possible for victims and reconstruction after the hurricane. This inspired my outside research about how to teach children about natural disasters without scaring them.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collections/teaching-content/helping-kids-cope-natural-disasters/

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/julie-ballew/17-18/rebuilding-our-classroom-community-after-hurricane-harvey/

In the above article, a teacher talks about her experience and her classrooms experience after hurricane Harvey. I really teared up reading this because it exemplified the reason I want to be a teacher so badly. This teacher and her students came together in love and unity after the hurricane and this teacher was a constant and a huge support to her children in the time of rehabilitation after the storm.

In order to have a successful EDTPA learning segment I will have to demonstrate the NCTCS teacher standards in a proficient way. I will absolutely have to know the content I teach and I will have to heavily reflect on my practice.





This first tweet I found on Mackenzie's page and I liked it because I love to see how other people use the 5E model and how they incorporate into different subjects.




This second tweet included an astonishing picture from an arial view of the water pollution from Hurricane Florence. I thought this was totally crazy and a Natural Phenomena that I had never seen a picture of before.





For my last tweet, I found another tweet about Hurricane Florence. This one is a CNN article about the murky waters loaded with bacteria and viruses that have killed people and continue to contaminate rivers and homes. While completing Science Through My Lense, seeing pictures like this really have had an impact on me.