PRACTICUM
PROJECTS – DEVELOPING SCIENCE TEACHING RESOURCES
This project involves developing resources
for educators and parents. This resource should include lots of images and
information, as well as links to websites.
Option
1. Develop an Annotated Teacher Resource booklet
(PDF) for one of the following topics:
· Virginia
Plants
· Virginia
Birds
· Virginia
Insects
· Virginia
Fish
· Coding
and Programming
· Children’s
Engineering/Makerspace Projects
· Children’s
Science Lit
o
Fiction
o
Non-Fiction
For the Virginia Wildlife booklets,
provide information as well as images. For
the Children’s Lit booklet you should also include a summary and some review
information (if you’re looking on Amazon you’ll find often find this in the
product information.
Option
2.
Build a Science Teaching Resource Website for the topics listed above. You can use UMW Blogs or Google Blogger
(www.blogger.com), a free, easy to learn/use website builder. This is pretty much an online version of the
PDF file.
Option
3. Museum in a Box museum. This is relatively new technology that has
great potential. Go to the website, https://museuminabox.org/, and take a look
at the video to see how it works. You
choose a topic for your museum collection, select the objects (could be a
picture, a card, a 3D print), record a description or a sound file for each
object in the collection, and then tag each object with a small stick-on
tag. When you place the object on the
box, the sound file is played. For this
option, you would build a museum collection by selecting a number of objects
and images (cards) that would be used to teach a concept. Then write a short script for each object,
demonstrating what the user would hear when they place the object on the
box. Here’s a picture of a collection
(the box is the bright yellow thing with the LED’s.)
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