Read Me the News, Tell Me the Story, Show Me the Footage (10)

Reading across the curriculum is so important. In science reading peer reviewed articles, science magazines and historical documents is so important to spark curiosity and push past bias. Providing them with many different sources: websites, videos, field trips and interactive media, creates a wondrous adventure. Science is continuously updating and progressing daily and it is so important to stir the imagination and let students investigate. Read me the news.

There is a story behind the science discoveries. The people. The trials and errors. The landmark decisions, the breakthroughs, the collaboration. Science is people, collaborating, sharing, experimenting, solving, creating, designing: STEAM. It is stepping beyond the expected, moving forward, around, through, above and below the impossible. Science is answers and more questions. If students don't get to submerge themselves in the exploration of science, they will never see the world for what it is: one giant science experiment. Tell me the story.

The footage is expansive, atomic, microscopic, large scale and just right. It is dark skies and tidal currents. Gravity, velocity and speed. It is blooming, decomposing and metabolism. Life, change, succession, deposition. It is what we see and what we do not. It is unimaginable until someone makes it imaginable. It cures, destroys and dissolves. Simply, it is connection, exclusion and blending. It is the essence of everything.

Students can find science tedious if it is kept in a large package, never exposing the beauty of its finite qualities. Once hooked, students open their eyes wide and really open themselves up to the recognition that they are connected to science, it is in them. Around them and about them. It is adaptable, malleable and yet certain, all at the same time. Science is forgiving and demanding. It is a challenge forever intertwined, with the understanding, that we must bend to its will as much as it does to ours.

This is learning. This is experience. Science is just a part of the learning process. It is a beautiful thing - the synergy of life, science and learning.