MAKE YOUR OWN RAINBOW:)

First of all, please look at this picture which is standing above, could you make your own rainbow with another way except painting?
Until this week, I have met this question with hesitant but now I know that I can get a beautiful rainbow by a simply way.
For this week I prefer to start my blog with lab activities which were done by Nihal, Esin and Fatma. I think all activities were amusing and while watching them, I got fun and some clues about how can weather concept can be teach to children. Unfortunately, my friends encounter some mischances such as a cloudy and rainy day, however in my opinion all activities worked properly. This week we learned weather concepts. Even though we do not have sunny day, my friends created an effective sun with the lamp. This experiment showed us power of warm of sun. Then we tried to form a static electric and pull up the small pieces of rope and paper. We achieved static electric with rubbing the plastic combs to our hair (especially my hair was so popular for this activity:)) and pullover, but I think the most funny activity is making rainbow. By using mirror, light and water we gained seven different, beautiful colors. I believe that, in future is beneficial for teaching to children how a rainbow occurring in the sky and also we may teach some main colors by this way and we can contribute cognitive attributions to children's development. That is, we integrate cognitive development into science teaching. I congratulate my friends for their performances.

In theoretical lesson, we continue to talk about constructivist perspective. We mentioned about teacher's roles on constructivist teaching and curriculum. For this perspective, our curriculum should based on the questions that about child's activities which he/she is engaging in. Actually, these questions give us idea about child's thoughts and understandings. For example if a child ask a question such as "How can I make it move?", he/she is interested in physics or if "How can I make it change?" question may be about chemistry experiments and "How does it fit or how do I fit?" can give us idea about biologically changes or the harmony of the nature.

In brief, this week provided me profitable knowledge about the constructivist curriculum and experiments related with weather concepts.