Teachers and experts share their secrets on using the news to enrich science classes
Web edition : Monday, July 30th, 2012
Making current events a routine part of science instruction can help reinvigorate student interest in the subject, say teachers and academic experts.?
?For me, current events are one way to engage young people in real-world discussions of the applicability of science,? says Robert Simmons, a professor in the education department of Loyola University Maryland and a former middle-school science teacher. ?Students have asked me, ?Why are we learning this?? If we cannot answer that question, we need to go back to the drawing board and figure it out. The answer cannot be, ?Because it?s on the test.??
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