The first weekend of our Teaching Science class started out with a bang! Our class got to participate in many different fun activities that could certainly cater to our future classrooms.
Friday night we got the opportunity to attend the First Friday Star Party that the Department of Physics & Astronomy puts on each semester. If you are interested in attending any of the other star parties this semester you can find out information about that here.
Saturday we got to channel our inner child and go to the Discovery Center at Murfree Spring. We actually attended two different workshops in one day, Growing Up Wild and Project Learning Tree. We were showered with great tips, materials and learning guides, and we also got to do many hands-on activities! Below are some pictures I snapped while at the Discovery Center.
They had an amazing water tank with all sorts of creatures in it, including this cool dude!
We got to make some awesome hats for our explorations outside!
Of course, for us sweet, sensitive-skin folks bug repellent is a must when exploring the great outdoors!
Here are some of our findings for our leafy picture frame that our group was assigned to make!
Overall, the first weekend of our Teaching Science class was a blast! It's so cool to be able to learn new things (even as the "future teacher") that you didn't already know about the subject. I'm pretty sure I can speak for my class in saying that we definitely enjoyed learning tips, ideas and activities of ways to teach content to our future kiddos!
Definitely enjoyed this experience!
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