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[Girlygirl]

Hi everyone,

Anyone there teaching Science in PS? My school is implementing the "emergent program" Even though I'm ONLY helping, but I don't feel I should because I'm NOT qualified. I feel like I'm doing harm than good. I suggested that I would teach math instead of science, but principal insisted on trying science in English. Now I'm stuck. BTW, my school is super nice......except this science thing is driving me nuts.

Please guide me to websites so I can brush up my science.

Million thanks.

[chevro1et]

I think that you mean an 'immersion' program. I have heard of a few PS doing it, but not at my PS. I would love to teach science immersion, all kinds of fun experiments and blowing shit up.

[Girlygirl]

Yeah....my bad.....that's what I meant....I'm a bit panicky right now.

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[Juregen]

nice resources thx

[Rusty Shackleford]

I did some science experiments with a camp class once. Mentos & coke rockets, volcanoes etc. They got a kick out of it. They would have to be super high level english but super low level science for it to work.

I can't see how you could teach the nitrogen cycle or astronomy to mid level english learners. If you were just giving the english words for science terms it would be vaguely useful imo.

[mole]

Swimming pool chlorine tabs and rubbing alcohol is fun, along the lines of Mentos&soda.

[nomad-ish]

that would be awesome! i'd love to teach something other than english.

i had this site saved because it has a load of powerpoints: http://science.pppst.com/index.html

i'm not sure if it'll be too difficult for your kids or not, but i'm sure you could change things here and there and make it easier.

[Goku]

Stick with the science you can understand and back up. Remember, science kids will openly question a lot, if you don't have the answers, or make up answers, you look stupid as hell.

So obviously stay away from genetics and phenotypes/genotypes that crap... Biology can become tricky and complicated. Unless you are strictly dealing with zoology or animals (which might bore the crap out of them)

I would stick to easy subjects like static electricity, geology, the water cycle (although, too elementary for most kids).

How old are your kids? My middle school teaches chemistry... It's incredibly advance and possibly higher than my high school level.

If I were in your shoes I might start with geology. It's easy to tackle.
Talk about Mo's scale of hardness talc, connundrum, diamond, etc...
If you can brign in some rocks. talk abotu the English name of the rocks, Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic...

You can talk about volcanoes, tetonic plates, etc.
They are easy concepts, straightforward, and can be explained in English quite clearly.

Other ideas for science topics that are easy are: The ocean, animals, the rainforest ecology, weather, etc.

If you want some other ideas, you can check out bill nye the science guy videos or beakmans world. They explain things in easy English... it will give you an idea of what topics your kids will be able to handle.

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[Teelo]

Teaching science in english in korea? Damn, I want your job.

[jurassic82]

Don't worry about it. I started teaching two science classes at my public school. It isn't as hard as you think it is. A lot of the stuff I'm teaching I learned when I was the same age as my students. Take advantage of the links you were given by others on this board and remember to just keep the experiments simple. If your students are 5th graders teach them science material that would be suitable for say maybe a 3rd grader. Consider yourself lucky because teaching English all the time especially at a public school can get really dull. Best of luck to you.

[Girlygirl]

Aww.......you guys are so sweet and helpful. Wish I could invite you all to dinner but I live out in the boonies.

I forget to add that I follow the school's curriculum and there's always a Korean science teacher there. But I want to be more than a robot, just standing there repeating vocab is a waste of time.

I was just looking for the websites to brush up on science. Thanks again.