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A 4 page paper consisting of personal reflection on personal attitudes toward science and how they developed, followed by an assessment of personal learning style and ideas of how science should be taught to children. As warning not to operate under preconceptions, the paper includes mention of Dr. Ben Carson, largely ignored by his white teachers in the 1950s and 1960s but who has been the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins since 1984. The paper praises the Montessori philosophy of "following the child." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSeduScience.rtf
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of those topics that seem to strike one of two chords with children: ultimate boredom or total terror. Age determines the reaction to a significant degree, likely because of
past experiences with the study of science in various forms. I do have quite definite ideas about how teachers should approach the topic. Science Reflection
My personal experience with science in public school was that it was nonexistent in elementary school, and I had only one biology class in high school.
Thankfully the local school district has developed greater dedication to science education since then, but at the time only those intending to go to college were required to take that
single biology class. Chemistry was available but not required. I remember being curious about natural systems as a young child, but it
was not until arriving at college that I was able to find any pattern that captured my attention. My first glimpse of a plant cell under a microscope and
learning about the structures within the cell ultimately led to my decision to major in horticulture and botany. That single cell was fascinating: chloroplasts racing around the margins
of the cell in response to the light furnished by the microscope, while other structures attended to their biochemical duties that were not visible. When I saw the chromosomes
contained in the nucleus line up in preparation for division, I was forever and inexorably hooked. Chemistry was another matter. Never having
been exposed to chemistry in any form, I was terrified of the freshman course required of all science majors and carrying a reputation of high failure rates. When I
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