Science in the News discussion

After the class discussion about the science in the news articles, I started realizing how important it is to keep up on the current events in the 'scientific' world. There are so many reasons why a class discussion is important and why it is so important to get kids to keep up on the science around them.

• It is so important to use interaction in the classroom to get the students talking and sharing their ideas about what they learned about the scientific world
• It is very important to have a reporter in the classroom, so the reporter can expand not only on their ideas, but everyone else's around them, to get their mind's going about something in a different perspective
• It is important for students to realize how broad of a category science actually is..science isn't always about the scientific method. Science is in so many different forms, that we can see in many current events that we research about.
• Looking up articles in the news uses so many different skills that include analyzing, classifying, observing, reflection on, and predicting. 
• I think that looking up science in the news is so important to do in the classroom so students can keep up on current events, and they can expand their minds in other scientific ways that they normally don't use in the classroom.

I think that this activity was overall a positive experience and is important to do in the classroom for students to keep up with knowing about their current events in the world.