Science Teaching Philosophy

At the beginning of this class, I thought that the entire basis of science was to promote scientific discovery and the best tool was through experiments and hands-on experience.  I still believe that to be a valuable aspect of teaching science, but I have been opened to the idea of including other tactics.  The development of science skills and the important processes of scientific inquiry and design process have shown me new aspects of science that I have never considered. The idea of using essential questioning to help shape a unit plan will definitely be beneficial to my teaching practices.  I come from a strong science background and I thought I knew a lot about science and how to teach it, but this class proved that I didn't really and I will take a lot from this class.