2016 Workshop Talk | 1:03:44 | All Grade Levels, Science
Summary
Are you teaching your students about science or are you teaching them how to do science? Are your students memorizing sound-offs or taking pages of notes without ever having touched and manipulated that which they are studying? Too many science classrooms at classical, Christian schools contain students who know about science, but have no clue how to actually think scientifically. In this workshop we will explore how to teach scientific practices, in essence true science, to students of all ages. We will discuss ways to perform experiments on limited budgets, how to incorporate the use of technology and virtual experimentation into the classroom, and how to train your students to be the next generation of scientific thinkers.
Speaker
Darla McDonald currently teaches physics and human physiology at Cary Christian School in Cary, NC. She has served on the faculty of Cary Christian for the past eight years with a total of eleven years of experience teaching in classical, Christian education. Darla holds a BS in biology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is pursuing a MEd from North Carolina State University in science education. She has a passion for teaching and for inspiring in her students a love for God and for studying His creation. Darla and her husband, Tim, have four children: Luke, Eva, Jonah, and Isaac, who range in age from 14 to 5 years old. In addition to her teaching role at Cary Christian, Darla also coaches the varsity field hockey team.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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