Is Each Fun Science Activity Just Fun?
Being a fun science activity is important, but we want to do more than just entertain your students. The neat thing is that after experiencing a good demonstration, students actually crave a good explanation. Thats why our teacher notes strongly emphasize you being mentally prepared. You should never walk into your classroom not having a clue what youre doing that day. If thats your habit, you might occasionally have a good day of learning, but you and your students are missing out on many more. Step 1, then, is going in with knowing what youre doing. And step 2 then would be deciding what kinds of things youll say during the lesson. If you seldom give thought to your words before a lesson, try it and see what happens. Each fun science activity includes an example back-and-forth dialogue between the teacher and students (based on actual words said when the lesson was presented) and other reminders about getting your mind ready. Everyone wants to be part of a great lesson, but often its
