"Use a lot of concrete examples...
'It doesn't work when we just sit and take notes on different terms. It has to be more real than that. Science and math are so conceptual that at times it's hard to comprehend, so students need concrete analogies or examples.' -Latia"
"Don't rely too much on the textbook.
'When things in the textbook seem really boring, do activities that force us to get involved and make connections. IN my ninth grade science class, we read about how resources we divided among the world, and he had students act as countries and divide up popcorn in amounts that represented their country's share of the resources. We had to organize to get enough popcorn for our countries.' - Daryl"
Science, particularly Biology, is an incredibly difficult subject when it is not taught in a way that students understand easily, so I believe that using concrete examples that students have experience with and relate to is crucial. Also, I think that I would have done MUCH better in my high school biology class if my teacher hadn't stuck to the textbook for every single powerpoint, reading, homework, activity, quiz, and test. I don't like reading from textbooks, I avoid it whenever I can, and whenever I do I have to read it out loud in some kind of accent so I don't give up and do something else, I just don't learn well that way. Textbooks are good resources, but in my opinion they should be resources, and not the majority of the curriculum.
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