Experiments - more than just Edu-Play
All science teachers want their students to see the science and the elegance of how the experiment show the science in the experiments done in class. Not all students see experiment time as an opportunity for learning. A colleague just tweeted this and it made me think "What DO I do?" and "What should I do?" An internal conversation I do have is... Is this experiment to show a scientific theory? - If yes, then it better blimmin' work every time. I don't want any odd results and I don't want to have to say "Oh - you should have seen …". If this happens, I have lost them and all sorts of misconceptions get reinforced, or created or worse, they might think science is stupid! Will the students see what I need them to see if they do the experiment? Or would it be better to do a Demo or even use an Animation or Video Is this experiment to show the process of doing a scientific investigation? - If yes, then it is better to get some unus