Brooke Delaney Designs: 2013-2014 Waas Science

This year has been a great year in science at WAAS! I have experienced so many new and different opportunities to learn and grow. I cannot even explain in words how much fun science has been but now I guess I am going to have to try to put it into words! In thinking about science this year, I thought about how Mrs. Giacomelli has made a difference in my life a s a science student.

The following link states 4 ideal qualities of a good science teacher and she has met all of them. She was able to make me laugh, enjoy what I was learning, be curious about my environment and how it relates to what I was learning and most of all she respected my thoughts and encouraged class participation and was also just very kind and thoughtful to me. I liked that a lot!
http://www.bachelorsofscience.org/4-ideal-qualities-in-a-science-teacher
I learned that being a good teacher means being able to make your student love topics that they would not otherwise like and a happy teacher makes for happy students! I was very happy in science this year and learned lots!!!

This year we did a lot of dissections! The most outstanding for me was the fetal pig dissections, it was just plain gross. I learned from this dissection that a pig's internal system works almost like a human's system. But that was not the only fun thing we did this year. To celebrate Science Olympiad, we played paintball. It was Mrs. G versus Mr. Simon, it was so much fun and I think allot more people will join SO next year for paintball!

We also had our school carnival and I have to say it was loads of fun. My favorite part was shooting my mom with a water gun. We spent the rest of the school year taking our final exams which I did for the first time and did very well. I was very happy. This year I learned so much! I can definitely improve next year on making sure I take good notes, listen well in class and follow directions during labs. All of which makes for a successful year in science which thankfully I had!

We wrapped our science year with our first annual boat regatta. Before this we had our last dance of the year which was a Hawaiian dance. I had lots of fun with my friends and did our 'Broadway Night" production in Explorations also. The boat regatta today was so much fun. Yasmin and I were on "Team Queen" and we dominated the "peasants" by placing first ! We really liked our prizes and I can't wait for next year and can't wait to use my gift card at the movies this summer! Our boat sank on the way back but after an awesome victory.
This was definitely the best year ever in science! Thank you Mrs. G ......you are the best!!!!!! Have a great summer and I cant wait to see you this summer at Chemistry camp!!!! woohooooooo!!!