Besides, I want to be a teacher because I want to connect and interact with students from various background. This will help me to broaden my knowledge about the world that they live in and I want to inspire them to be the change that they want the the world to be. For example, I have a simple ethical vision that I want to instill in students and want to change the world in which I live, the vision is to clean up your table after eating to easy the work of the employee and for other people to sit after you. The vision looks simple and easy to do, but some people do not care about it. In order to make this happen, we need to make a baby step by instilling the vision to students which can create a ripple effect.  

I learned about the ways of teaching science and the framework of teaching science as well as the science curriculum of Singapore syllabus. 

2. Things that are new to me. 

Things that are new to me is the domains under the inquiry-based methods. There are 3 domains and each domain has their own role in shaping the learners to be a scientific literate students. 

3. Things I found interesting. 

I found that the syllabus are set by following students level of understanding and from concrete thinking to abstract thinking. It will help students to grasp the learning process in a better way because of their level of understanding and some topic related to their daily life.  

4. How will this knowledge help me as a science teacher? 

Knowing about the curriculum and the framework will help me to know what it is set for my students. I should try my best to follow the guidelines that I have learned from the syllabus. 

I learned about the meaning of the core and conducting a short survey about energy. 

2. Things that are new to me

Things that are new to me is the analysis part of qualitative research. For example, in class earlier, we need to come up with a theme from the responses and make a conclusion with it. 

3. Things I found interesting 

As we did not cover much on this week topic, I found the assignment briefing where we need to do an Augmented Reality E-book is interesting. I think the assignment is quite challenging as we need to create the material for the Augmented Reality and E-book as well as not taking anything from the website. I was thinking about the assignment after I received the notification from Classroom as how am I going to cope with my another workload such as Action Research and Community Service activities TT I thought that Ebook can only be created by using Google Docs but today, I found out that we can use Canvas to create Ebook. In order to make this assignment work, I need to master in using Canvas as well as HP Reveal which is for creating the Augmented Reality. Why is this briefing is interesting to me? This is because I need to be an expert in teachnology in a short period of time and there are a lot of things for me to learn and I bet it will be interesting to experience it. By the way, I still have questions to ask, how are we going to add the augmented reality trigger to the Ebook?, how the students want to see the overlay of the triggers?, do they scan the trigger using their smartphone while reading the book on their laptop or tab?.

4. How will this knowledge help me as a science teacher

This week's lesson will help me in knowing the core of energy and forces and preparing me for my teaching career. Based on the survey that we conducted today, we are able to recognise the misconceptions that students have on Energy and we should not ignore the misconceptions without finding solutions in solving it. I believe that in the next class, we will be discussing ways or solutions in correcting the misconceptions that students have on energy and will help me in future if I have a students with similar misconceptions.. 

Things I learned in today’s lesson is a continuation of week 2 slides and week 3 slides. The topics that I learned today are the importance of conserving energy, the core ideas of energy, the Law of Conservation of Energy, the total amount of energy in the end is the same amount of energy in the beginning, constructivist approach in learning science and scientific inquiry method. 

2. Things that are new to me

Things that are new to me is the total amount of energy in the end is the same amount of energy in the beginning. I usually think that energy will be used up and at the end of the day, we will lose our energy due to the activities that we did during the day. Actually, my thinking is wrong and the energy that I have at the first place is converted to various form of energy throughout the day. By the way, I think the misconceptions that I have for the energy transformation is because of Milo advertisement. Milo ads state that “there are no energy left at the end of the day if you did not drink Milo in the morning”. I understand that the statement is to promote their product but children may have misconceptions about it if the adults did not explain properly the meaning of the statement. I found and have attached a Milo poster which can help adults to explain the statement properly and correct the misconceptions. 

3. Things I found interesting 

I found that the Olympics Tokyo 2020 will used various form of energy for the sports festival such as using wind and solar energy to light up the stadiums and athletes villages. The Japanese utilizes their energy sources to the fullest which makes me wonder how their mind work. 

4. How will this knowledge help me as a science teacher

Knowing about the core ideas of energy and law of conservation of energy will help me to understand better about the topic. In one of the activity we did in classroom, we created actions to suit the song and I think we should incorporated it to our lesson for energy. The song includes the core ideas of energy as well the law of conservation of energy which is good for students to learn and caters to student with various learning needs. The list of examples that I have from this week lesson can be helpful in explaining the topic to students because it related to their life. 

Since I am absent in today’s class because I am away for my professional practicum, I learned from the slides and notes from my friends. I learned about the misconceptions in Energy and Forces theme. Based on the slides, there are many misconceptions that students have and the causes of these misconceptions. Also, I learned about the differences between mistake and misconception. 

2. Things that are new to me

The fact that we see certain colour because the object absorbed the colour around them and reflect certain colours only. This is called an opaque object. For example, why we see the chair is green? The chair which is the opaque object absorb the surrounding colour and reflect green as its colour. Actually, there are various colour inside the chair, but we can see green only because the chair is an opaque object. 

3. Things I found interesting

Our surrounding can brings any misconceptions to us and it is not only on topic that we learn in school. Everything that happens around us can create a misconceptions if we did not have enough information about it and just believe it as how we see it. Young children is the most vulnerable in having misconceptions because they tend to believe things that happen around them without questioning much or try to look for more information.  

4. How will this knowledge help me as a science teacher

This misconceptions knowledge will help me as a science teacher because it can help me in recognising the origin of the misconceptions that students have and try to find a good approach to tackle the misconceptions. The misconceptions that students have must be addressed as early as we can to avoid more misconceptions when they are growing up. Personally, I have a confusion of weight and mass in a science context. I am still struggling with it even though I have learnt it so many times in primary and secondary school. So, I do not want my future students face the same difficulties as me and by having this knowledge, I can help them to understand better about science and change their thinking if there is any misconceptions that I spot on.