When did we take all the fun out of being a kid (reduced recess, increased homework, self-worth tied to activities)?
Reading A Wrinkle in Time makes me wonder why Meg and Charles Wallace had so much time to save the universe and weren’t on a travel team.
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@joenatoli I do think the science teacher is good. But the curriculum based optics vs substance is making me rethink my commitment to public schools in Baltimore.
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In conclusion, science is about asking questions and figuring how to answer them. Poorly constructed experiments without context that make people feel like they’re doing science (similar to 3D printers in schools) are not helping the next gen of researchers.
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@bennytheshap That’s probably why I’m so angry about it. It’s like someone at the district office read the abstract of Kitchen Chem and made this assignment.
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This is the official city curriculum. Perhaps it started as the good stuff and just got watered down by the time it was put on a worksheet. But part of me feels we have people designing curriculum who are more interested in looking like it is good learning than actual learning.
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This wasn’t science and it wasn’t even the life-relevant learning that .@jasoncyip and .@TammyUMD talk about. It was 100% busy work to make the kids feel like they were doing science when they weren’t. It was essentially, academic theater.
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We totally had the means to do this, but what about other BALTIMORE CITY kids…the ones where 55% of the school district are considered low income? Do they all have the food and home security to work on this endeavor?
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The rubric focuses on taking pictures of the process (60%), answering what was different (30%) and asking what your ideal cookie is.
So we spent three nights cooking these cookies and wasting a ton of butter and ingredients for ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ from someone who actually likes sci.
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I asked lots of questions about what she thought the point was and she didn’t didn’t have a real answer. I asked about dependent variables and independent variables in both kid-speak and actual science terms and she was like
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I’m not sure what the point of BCPS 5th grade science is. My kid had to bake three batches of cookies where the butter was solid, softened, and melted respectively. First, the recipe was terrible and this was made from my semi-pro baking whiz kid. Second, where’s the science?
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