Nov 26, 2019 | Engaging Education, Janell Webb
The Importance of Doing Lab Work in Science Classes Science is all about asking questions and making observations. Learning science should involve seeing, handling, and manipulating materials. This is what I loved about science as a student, and it is also why I love...
Jul 18, 2018 | Kerrie Childress, Rigorous Courses, Uncategorized
Chemistry Students Learn by Doing Why are hands-on labs so important? What can a student learn from this approach? My favorite part of teaching science classes is performing labs. Experiments allow students to learn the material in a different way and for many...
Apr 16, 2018 | Christian Worldview, Heather Getson
What Is So Important About the Blobfish? What Is So Important About the Blobfish? Have you ever taken a look at some of the animals that God has created and wondered “Why?” Well, there definitely are some exceedingly odd-looking animals in the animal kingdom, but when...
Jan 15, 2018 | Engaging Education, Heather Getson
3 Things Your Student Should Learn From Their Junior High Science Classes As parents of junior high students, we want the best for our kids. We want to prepare them for high school sciences the best that we can, but with so many choices in junior high sciences today,...
Jan 5, 2018 | Debbie Stokes, Engaging Education
3 Reasons Why I Don’t Assign Vocabulary Words I have this recollection from when I was in school of looking in the back of my textbooks at a glossary of important words, and copying down definitions to my notebook paper of lists of words my teacher had given me for...