Thankfully this is beginning ESL science and most of what we are doing is vocabulary acquisition (and The Magic School Bus is all available on DVD!). Since so much of the content is outside of my comfort zone I decided to stay well within my wheel-house of activities. I took my standard vocabulary activities and applied them to science. I have developed several units including weather, ecology and animal taxonomy. While each bundle is slightly different they all include sort cards, clip cards and match up cards but there are slight differences, such as the classification/taxonomy unit including puzzles. Click the pictures before to check out the details of each unit.
Science was my least favorite and least successful class when I was in school. I just didn't get it and despite the best efforts of several teachers there are some science things that I cannot do to this day (ie: balance a chemical equation). For these reasons I have avoided teaching science and the most nervous time of starting a new job was always the moment before the principal told me what I'd be teaching/supporting ("Please don't let him say science, please don't let him say science...."). I obviously did not fully think through the idea of self-containing our new arrivals and teaching all the core subjects because it turns out one of the four core subjects of school is science. So after years of praying and actively avoiding science class I have actually volunteered to teach one and to some degree I am terrified.
Thankfully this is beginning ESL science and most of what we are doing is vocabulary acquisition (and The Magic School Bus is all available on DVD!). Since so much of the content is outside of my comfort zone I decided to stay well within my wheel-house of activities. I took my standard vocabulary activities and applied them to science. I have developed several units including weather, ecology and animal taxonomy. While each bundle is slightly different they all include sort cards, clip cards and match up cards but there are slight differences, such as the classification/taxonomy unit including puzzles. Click the pictures before to check out the details of each unit.
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