Extra! Extra! Science Here!

One way to learn or to teach science is through news articles. A lot of people tend to ignore science in the news, but the articles that come out are rather interesting. For our class project we had to make a collage of articles on a topic of our choice. I chose to do my collage on space articles. The platform I chose was called Lino. On Lino, you add photos and add virtual sticky notes to the photos. These virtual sticky notes can have any kind of writing on them that you wish. 

Some of the articles I chose were:

•  Scientists May Be A Bit Closer To Knowing If Mars Has Ever Had Life 
• Was There Once Life On Mars? Spacecraft Will Look Into The Mystery
• Scientists Say They Discovered A New Planet In Our Solar System
• Now We Know Mars Has Liquid Water, Could Martians Be Next?

I chose these articles because the idea that there is life beyond our universe has always interested me. I would love to be able to know what the future of our world is going to look like. I have also always wondered if people could live on Mars. If a person were to think about it, our planet Earth is just one small planet in our galaxy. There are millions and millions of galaxies beyond ours. There has to be another small planet like ours, with people like us who are searching for the same thing that the scientists in N.A.S.A are searching for. 

These articles have pertained to our classroom discourse because we discussed ecosystems and biomes. These ecosystems and biomes are what keep our planet going. Without these ecosystems, food chains, and biomes our planet would just be another lifeless planet like the rest of the planets in our sun's orbit. In class we also spent time talking about space and the articles each of us chose for our space collages. A lot of my peers and I shared why we chose the articles we did and a lot of it traced back to personal interest in a space topic. 

To find articles like this, one can search many places. Time magazine generally has a science section, but I chose the website Newsela. Newsela is a website that has articles about many educational topics or topics of leisure. I chose to use this website because the articles come from reliable sources. Some of the articles come straight for N.A.S.A. 

I would definitely use science articles in my future classroom. I think that they can be used to educate students on a new topic or to expand their knowledge on an old topic. Students can easily relate these articles to english. They can have an assignment to point out different parts of speech, make cross word puzzle and many other creative projects. Students can also gather many articles on one topic and make a collage like I did above. They could then present their collages to the class and explain why they chose them and why those articles are important for that topic of study.