What are the innovative ways to teach science?

I ALWAYS believe that I should not settle for less in anything that I do and that includes teaching, the profession I love, and science, the subject I love.

With this in mind, I continually look for innovations to apply in the classroom to make sure that I can be as close to perfection as my effort would lead me.

Through making innovations from time to time, my teaching would not sound boring to the students.

I noticed that innovations do not always have to be futuristic because they can be a change in the way you do things.

Although it sounds primitive in nature because storytelling has been done for generations, when it comes to education, storytelling helps the teacher get the attention of the student in class because it helps in organizing facts in the mind of the student and it is a way to awaken the imagination of the student. It can be used in indirectly telling the student about how the lesson is applied in the real world.

People say that storytelling is a childish idea, but you can always change your voice from one that speaks to children to a more mature, conversational voice and add a real life scenario that is connected with the lesson. You do not need to start with

“One day…” because you can start with “People from a tropical island fear that the rise of waters would eventually submerge their low-lying islands.”

There is also an alternative to field trips wherein you can encourage the students to talk to an expert or go to a museum or the library to get more data and share what they learned from their interview or research with the class and have a discussion on the information the students gathered.

I also observed that there are students who answer “I do not know” when they were unable to come up with the right answer or guess, so I asked them to record their process of thought when they solve a problem and to explain the reason behind their ways to get the solution.

Not all i nnovations require technology. ( Paid article)