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I am starting college this week and will be working about 6-12 hours a week (yes, not much, but it will buy lunch). Anyway, I work at a daycare as a "teacher"; however, the reality is we are just child supervisors that make sure the kids are having fun, safe, etc... . Since I am only spending a few hours with my group of kids (an average of 20 K-5th grades) I would like to start doing little lectures and maybe some experiments here and there. I tried something similar last summer when I worked with them from 6am-5pm, about thirty minutes before lunch I would teach them some basic anatomy and physiology (Ex. how osteoclasts and osteoblasts maintain the skeletal system), then I would just give them a small three question quiz. Like most kids, they hated it the first few days, but slowly came to actually look forward to it; a few would walk into my room and ask, "what are we learning about today?". This time around I would like to take it up a notch and do a full "course" with them; however, I am unsure of what direction to take them. I am a microbiology major so I was thinking of doing pathophysiology with an emphasis on the immune system's role in tackling bacterial infections, fundamental cellular biology, or maybe epidemiology so I can throw in some mathematics (scores are low in our school system). The only issue is that I am afraid that the above topics are too specific for the general style of learning they are using in actual elementary school and that the topics will be something they cannot "touch", The kids could understand the skin, skeleton, and brain because it was physically there and after that I could explain the individual cells. I have also considered just doing basic biology with them, since I have an old middle school textbook I can use as a guide. Has anyone ever tried something similar, if so how did you go about it and how did you plan for it to reflect your professional goals?
Thanks.
Thanks.
