Winter Wrap-Up 01: Community and joy within K-8 science instruction
01/26/23 • 47 min
While we gear up for the next season of Science Connections: The Podcast, we're revisiting some of our favorite conversations from past seasons!
In this episode, we join Eric Cross as he sits down with physicist and science education specialist, Desiré Whitmore. Listen in as Desiré explains her work at the Exploratorium, a public learning laboratory. Eric and Desiré discuss finding passion in science, the importance of meeting students we’re they’re at, and K–8 science instruction with real-life connections. Desiré chats with Eric about her work on supporting the science of teaching science content at the Exploratorium museum.
Explore more from Science Connections by visiting our main page.
While we gear up for the next season of Science Connections: The Podcast, we're revisiting some of our favorite conversations from past seasons!
In this episode, we join Eric Cross as he sits down with physicist and science education specialist, Desiré Whitmore. Listen in as Desiré explains her work at the Exploratorium, a public learning laboratory. Eric and Desiré discuss finding passion in science, the importance of meeting students we’re they’re at, and K–8 science instruction with real-life connections. Desiré chats with Eric about her work on supporting the science of teaching science content at the Exploratorium museum.
Explore more from Science Connections by visiting our main page.
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Science Connections - Winter Wrap-Up 01: Community and joy within K-8 science instruction
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I think it , it's really amazing when we can realize as teachers, like, no, our job is not to just enforce rules on our students, right? Our job is to like help students to achieve more learning.
Speaker 2Welcome to Science Connections. I'm your host Eric Cross . Now, before we get to today's episode, I want to give you a little peek behind the scenes here at the podcast. We're currently working on wha
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