Born the daughter of a nurse and a self-made electrician, the product of science or the antithesis of all things scientific?
What counts as science anyway?
Mixing ingredients to put in my easy bake oven… conduction and convection from a really hot light bulb
Playing in my fort in the rhododendron trees… a study into how trees and insects live and interact
Swinging on the tire swing in the front yard… how motion works and how high I have to pull the swing back to be able to pull leaves off of the tree when I propel forward
As for science in school?
Definitions
Notes
Definitions
Blah, blah, blah, blah blah
And more definitions
Can we see some cool experiments, please?
My 8th grade teacher lights the table on fire. I don’t remember why, but it was awesome!
Dissecting pigs. Did my lab partner really just get sick and leave. He’s such a wimp.
11th and 12th grade chemistry. Science finally makes a connection. Too bad it’s in time for me to graduate and realize that science in college is way too difficult for the average student.
As for the things I will never forget…
The thrill of catching something on fire and then figuring out the components that make it happen
The smell of formaldehyde
My high school chemistry teacher
Figuring out that science means more than definitions out of a dictionary. It’s all around us.
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Anna,
ReplyDeleteA #1. I really enjoy reading your writing.
A #2. I completely forgot about all the science playing I did in school while writing my bolg. I almost want to go back and add the tomatoes that grew in our back yard and the caterpillars (that were actually inch worms) I kept illicitly in my desk.
Thanks for reminding me of all the science experiences I had without even knowing it.
Hey Anna!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the way you wrote your science autobiography! I especially liked the beginning where you explained how you experienced science through everyday things in your life as a child, such as through easy bake ovens, flowers, and swings. I think that too often as educators, we feel like we have to come up with some super example to present to our children, when sometimes the most effective thing would be to take an everyday example such as these that they are used to experiencing, and to show them how it relates to what they are learning. That way they too can know that science is all around us. :)