Summarize:
In this science article, published in an english journal, I first discovered how to incorporate english literacy in the science classrooms and science in the english classrooms. Moreover, I found that there is a relationship between these two subjects, we as teachers, just need to show that relationship, which may be easier said than done. At the end of the day, it is essential to find a healthy balance of both science and english literacy.
It is important for us, as teachers, to have solid background knowledge in all subject areas so we can incorporate little bits and pieces of these subjects to create a very diverse but intellectual classroom.
Connections:
As I read this article, I came across the discussion of the movie, Back to the Future, and how this movie can incorporate both science and literature elements. This is a great connection as I have seen this movie and helped me bridge the gap between science and literacy.
The article also provided examples of what kind of experiments modern day scientists, such as Verne, conducted to illustrate electricity in the classroom. I loved this because it allowed me to think of what type of experiments I would use in the classroom if I were one day to teach science.Critique:
I believe it makes sense and is also important that the author incorporated specific examples of science in literary contexts. This allows the teacher to use these resources for his or her classroom.
The first sentence of this article, "Something there is that really does love a wall, especially in the land of academics" does not make sense to me and kind of threw me off for the rest of the reading (Westcott & Spell, 1999, p. 70).
Why is this important?
This science article allows for teachers, of any subject area, to incorporate english literacy in everyday instruction. One may be blind to how the english subject can be incorporated at first, but it is honestly very apparent once you dive deeper and read articles such as this one.
Many students do not perform well in Language Arts because they only associate English learning in one classroom. If we as teachers make it a point to incorporate some of the skills and techniques into other subject area classrooms, students will not only be better off in the english classroom but in life as well.
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Alena, I did the review on the same article and liked your view on the topics being incorporated. For example, I thought that putting literature into science classrooms can be confusing. However, I see where you are coming from with how it can also be important to the students knowledge. I think this would be helpful in the student’s lives, because many things in life are incorporating two things into one.
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Alena,
ReplyDeleteI think science is one of the trickier ones to see how literacy can be incorporated into the classroom because it isn't explicit like in ELA classes. But I think when you think of a text like graphs, charts, etc it becomes easier to see how you can have that in the science classroom as well. I like how much of an emphasis you put on how literacy is woven into all curriculum because I think that's important for all teachers to know.
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