Chapter 5 Questions

1. There are some scientfic topics I remember studying about during school that dealt with the enviromnet around me. I remember the fossil unit I learned in elemntary school, it talked about the different fossils found in New York State. My uncle is an acreologist and I called him when we started the unit. He sent me a huge box filled with all different types of minerals and fossils he found around our area. He told me to bring it into the my class to let my teacher used. I thought it was really cool, he gave me enough for each student to have theeir own personal rock that had something different in it wheather it be a fossil or a gem. Another topic I remember was learning about the different things that live in the Erie Canal. We went there for a field trp and we all got a piece of coal to bring home.  There were diffeent stations there was the water staion that had us do hands on activities with a tank with the different types of things living in the water. There was an insect station that a lot of people didn't like because they don't like touching bugs.  The coal station was fun because I remember learning about the coal mine and the process of what happens underneath. I found all the different activities we did very useful because it allowed me to go and experience everything first hand.

2. It is important to connect things to students' everyday lives because it is something they can relate too.  If the teacher connects it to something the students have no knowledge on then the student doesn't obtain the information.  If it is connect to something in their lives they will be able to remember whaat was being taught because they can look back and be connect to an experience they haave had. This is a way of learning because the students can associate things in the classroom to things in theiur lives.

3.I feel naturalistic intelligence isn't any more sepcecial then the other intelligences out there. They all have a unique quality that makes the different from one another. Naturalistic intelligence is when a person has the ability to identify and classify things in nature. It is something special to connect with nature and be known as a "Nature Lover" but like I said I feel all the intelligences are just as special.

4.I feel it is important for steudents to learn about greeen science because it is important to learn about the environment. We are the generation that can change the future with global warming and have the knowledge on what we are doing in the environment.  By learning greeen science the students can learn ways to help their local envrionment.

5.I think the fields trips I took when I waas younger would of been more meaningful to me if it was stressed that it waas right in my back yard. The field trips we went on were mostly close by and if I understood then what I know now how everything happened at those places has affect history I would have been like wow.