Week 2 - The Characteristics of Living Things
Blog Post 1: This week in Elementary Science Methods we learned the characteristics of living things. In class, we went over the 8 characteristics: cellular composition, maintaining homeostasis, growth & change, movement, response to stimuli, reproduction, metabolism, and genetics & heredity. This is the group poster that helped us review and learn the 8 characteristics. As a future teacher, I can apply many of the teaching techniques in my own classroom. For example, explaining a new topic in different ways, one by me and another through a video for those students who need more of a visual learner. Also having them review what they learned through a creative group project. This is something I personally had fun with and even got to get to know my classmates more. I was able to relate this to my elementary science classes. We were able to grow some flowers during our until which we later got to take home. It has been a long time since...