Chapter Five Making Connections: Green Science

Go Green!!

The one main idea that I got from chapter five is all about 'going green.' I think in today's classrooms it is so important for students to be introduced to 'going green' so that they can learn at an early age how important it is to start conserving energy, and at the same time they can practice and apply what they learned. The first step of teaching students how to go green is to get them outdoors. It is so important to expose them to the environment outside of playing video games inside, and sitting on the couch watching television. Getting students outside observing nature will definitely help them appreciate nature that much more and will get them involved in so many activities outside.

 I don't remember that many scientific topics that relate to the local environment. The only thing I really remember focusing on are scientific topics that have to do with global warming and how much of an impact global warming has on our society today.
Regarding field trips that I used to take, I don't remember many of them, mostly because I don't remember much of what we did in elementary school. I think these would have been more meaningful to me if I really enjoyed the topic I was studying or if I had some good experience that I always remember. Field trips weren't the most important thing that I really remember as a student.

In the classroom, making connections to students lives is very important and students are able to learn much better this way when they can apply the things to read to their life around them. Because today's world is becoming so complex students get a better sense and have satisfaction knowing that they learned about something that relates to their life.

I think 'naturalistic intelligence' is definitely not a special type of intelligence. What naturalistic intelligence does is it just requires you to go out and expand knowledge about the world. If you never go outside and don't know anything about the world around you then you don't have this kind of intelligence. This is a special intelligence just in the sense that you have to experience it to know what it is like.

I think the most important thing there is to teach students about green science is that they have to start now  to help save the environment in future generations. The teacher must help to teach the student understand how resources can effect their environment and ecosystems around them. The sooner that they start to practice this, the more they will benefit in the long run! :)