Making Science Fun 4/15/ Introducing: Investigating the Possibilities Elementary Science

Transcription

1 Making Science Fun Creation Studies Institute Tom DeRosa Introducing: Investigating the Possibilities Elementary Science

2 4 5 Bone Valley Fossil Grave Yard Arcadia, Florida 6 2

3 7 8 April 29 MAY 1,

4 Investigate the Possibilities Elementary Science 1. Making the Connection to their Creator 2. Using the power of hands-on science 3. A qualified curriculum following the National Standards 4. Giving students a firm Biblical Foundation. 10 Christopher Hitchins As I write these words, and you read them, people of faith are in different ways planning your destruction, and the destruction of all the hard-won human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything. p13 God is Not 11 Great The New Atheism Bold Evolution Based School 1950 s 1960 s

5 Hebrew Translation Science = Creation Nature = Creation 13 No God is allowed in my Nature Box!!!! 14 Making the Connection We Will Tell the Next Generation Ps 78:1-4 3 what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done

6 Rule Over and Multiply Gen 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." 16 Education our purpose 1. Taking over God s Creation we glorify Him 2. Ruling over we come closer knowing our creator 3. Being obedient we hold-off extinction of our race. 4. Knowing is giving a witness to the Gospel 17 Creation Evangelism Creation Separation - Invitation Genesis 1 Knowing where we come from? Knowing who we are? Knowing our purpose?

7

8 Red Cabbage Plant pigments called anthocyanins provide fruits and vegetables with beneficial blue, purple and red coloring The Power of Hands-on Science Learning that Science Can be Fun! 23 CSI s Curriculum Project BIBLE John 1:1 SCIENCE Hands-on CREATION Evolution Apologetics

9 Smiles go a Long Way 25 We can experience God My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Job 42:5 NIV 26 Practically nothing is known about the way information processing actually takes place in the brain. Nobody knows how the perceived semantic information is derived from incoming electrical signals. Werner Gitt, The Wonder of Man (Bielefild, Germany, Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung e.v. 1999) p

10 Man in the Image of God Complicated interaction with the brain, mind and spirit makes man the crown of God s Creation. Psalm 8: 28 Experiencing and Discovering outside the box 29 Observing Major: Seeing, Hearing and Touching. Minor: Tasting and Smelling

11 Albert Einstein s Education Einstein before he entered higher education spent a year in a progressive school in Aurau, Switzerland. He was taught by using a series of steps that started with hands-on observation followed by intuitions and then conceptual thinking. This method would lead students to come to their own conclusions. The visual understanding of concepts as stressed by Pestalozzi and his followers in Aurau, became significant 31 aspect of Einstein s genius. Bloom s Levels Cognitive 1. Inquiry Method 2. Activity Driven 32 Part 3. CSI s Investigate the Possibilities

12 Investigate the Possibilities Developing Standards National Research Council 35 American Association for the Advancement of Science

13 What is our distinctive style? It will follow the National Standards Inquiry and Hands-on 37 Engage 38 Experiment

14 Explain Extend Deeper 40 Extend Evaluate

15 43 Topics Following the Standards Physical Science (2010) Forces and Motions Matter: Its Interactions and Properties Energy and Its Applications Earth and Space Science (2011) Life Science (2012)