Teaching science can be very rewarding. Through your lessons you instill in your students and curiosity toward life and nature. This desire to explore and discover is a key to unlocking some of life’s wonders.
You will find that teaching science is more rewarding when you are not simply completing worksheets and conducting prepackaged experiments. What you want to encourage is a two way of questions and answers, not a memorization of facts and formulas. As you are teaching science ask your students thought provoking questions that require them to explore the world around them. The questions can be simple, such as “What makes it rain?”
When you are teaching science try and incorporate as many “hands on” type activities. You can ask questions like “How can we calculate the weight of this book?” By doing this, you encourage the students to figure out their own formulas, and explore facts and concepts on their own. Giving students data that they need to collect on their own c...