3 Easy Ways to Foster a Science Culture in Your Classroom

Sciences classes are a great opportunity to introduce students to real world experiences. Educators always want their students to be able to bring what they learn in the classroom and relate it to everyday life. Creating a science culture in your hands-on classroom experience doesn’t have to be complicated, nor does it have to be achieved on a national scale; there are three small steps you can take to ensure your science class is as engaging and informative as it should be!

1. Encourage your students to ask: "why?"

One of the fundamental building blocks of a successful science class (and a scientist), is the desire to ask why. The subject of science itself revolves about our inquisitive nature to ask how and why things work in the world. Therefore, in science classes, it’s important to make the class more than purely memorization.

The subject of science itself revolves about our inquisitive nature to ask how and why things work in the world.

Diving deeper into scientific topics and encouraging discussions will allow your students to truly understand why something works and allow them to remember the topic rather than simply force memorization. ​

Take a tip from the ancients: Teach by example. If you want to get your students to start asking "why?", you need to create a discussion based classroom. Some questions you can ask to get your students minds cranking are:

• Could you give us an example?
• What is an alternative?
• Why do you think that is?
• What other information do we need?
• What is ______ assuming here?
• ​What could we assume instead?

2. Make time for activities and exercises

A true learning experience occurs in physics, chemistry, and biology labs.  Making time in your curriculum to ensure that students have the opportunity to have hands-on knowledge forges a deeper, inherent understanding of the mathematics and logic. This really brings the words from a textbook to life and creates impactful learning experiences.

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3. Emphasize that mistakes are important

Mistakes are a fundamental part of learning and life – nowhere is this truer than science. Many of the greatest discoveries of science and engineering are by accident. Allow your students to embrace failing as a necessary part to get closer to the answer.  Every experience is valuable—including failure.

Many of the greatest discoveries of science and engineering are by accident.

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