This was my first essay for the class. I was required to reflect and share my school science experiences, what science was like for me and stereotypes about a scientist. Also, we had to include our own definition of science, which I never really thought of until this class. It forced me to look back and think of all the science experiences I have encountered from kindergarten until college. I wrote about what science was like for me. I have had many positive and one negative experience through my science learning career. What does science mean to us and to our students? This is a great way to start the year by asking our students to define it in their own words. My science autobiography discusses what science means to me. Science is the way I would define science is observation, discovery, reasoning, exploration because in science everything is explored and gives an explanation of how certain things work. Science has a wide range of topics. Science is around us every day and new things are being discovered to learn and teach. Science is a big part of our world. My one negative experience really made me not like science and to stop pursuing a career I was so adamant about being. Since I had that experience and forced me to switch majors, it made me find my way to teaching and I LOVE IT! Overall, science has always been interesting and has come easily to me. My views of science will change throughout the course. When I was sitting in class in high school, I would always think I would never use science again and what is the point of this. But now that I am studying to be a teacher, I need to know much more about science. I need to make sure my future students are engaged. As a substitute teacher, I have to teach about science and the kids look so bored because the teachers are not making the lessons empowered. I know after completing projects and fieldwork in class, my views of science will change tremendously. I cannot wait to learn to what this class has to offer and all the science material I will learn and use in my future classroom! 
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