After reading chapter 1 and answering the discussion questions, it made me realize just how little I think about science. Even though we are faced with it every day, I go through my daily life expecting things to happen and not knowing why. It's ironic it took me a homework question to figure out I needed a whole new way of thinking. I need a scientific way of thinking. My old schema about science was simply, "It happens that way, because that's just the way it happens." I never took a moment to think why does my straightener get so hot? Why do my fingers wrinkle when I'm in the pool? Why is the sky blue? I know it's a little dramatic to try to know everything, but the question just made me a little curious. If i took the time to try to understand a little more about why things work they way the do, I might come to appreciate science a little more.
However, I don't completely blame myself for my disinterest in the subject. It's not that I don't like it, or couldn't grow to like it, it just that all my experiences with it have been everything but pleasant. Elementary school began the draining cycle of read, memorize, and test. By the end of high school, I really couldn't stand science because it had nothing to do with my life (I thought) and I really was never going to use it. My attitude was, "I'm never going to be a scientist, so what's the point?" Even though I knew from second grade I wanted to be a teacher, teaching science was never really something the crossed my mind. However, now that I'm older have had to opportunity to think about it, I want to make science for my students the exact opposite of what it was for me. I want to make it fun. Students today just recite what they learn without really knowing anything about it. With all the technology we have today, children are already little scientists and they probably don't even know it. I want to be the one who opens their eyes to a whole new, exiciting, and scientific way of looking at the world.
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