Wednesday, March 28, 2012

SCIENCE = EASY & FUN

Abdil Yazzid Asrin Ezzany B Abdullah      0811431
Jefferson Lab science education is a science website which is to focus on the learning processes for teachers and also students. Indeed, this website can strengthen the level of motivation in learning science and as an easy approach for students to learn science. The Jefferson Lab website is not really interesting in terms of the colors, graphics and designs. However, this website wants something is simple and easy to use for teachers and also for students itself.  For example, in this website it consists of 7 major topics such teacher resources, student zone, games and puzzles, sciences cinema, programs and events and also search education.

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                In addition, this science website had lots of information and fact about sciences as general. The most important is this website can also be use for teacher as a resources and also students can gaining knowledge of sciences independently unless there is some problems students can refers to his or her teacher. For teachers there is a hands on activities that teachers can give some exercise to students as a practices. Other than that, for students, s/he can click on the student zone to try a lot of activities and exercises. For example, activity for element crossword puzzles on the nature of matter (http://education.jlab.org/sciencecrossword/atoms_01.html ).

Furthermore, Student Zone includes the homework helpers for students in terms of questions and answers, glossary of science terms and so on. This can help students by improving their study and also improving their interest on sciences subject.  And also, if the student zone feel bored due to the designs or graphics itself, students can watch a science video for instance, in science series video archive. (http://education.jlab.org/scienceseries/archive.html ). This can help student in having better understanding during the learning process.
                Moreover, this website also provides the programs and events for science lectures for high school and also for middle school students. The reason is to make sure students have in depth understanding about the sciences and at the same time offers the student some experience in the learning process by the Jefferson  Lab Science.
                Lastly, this website actually quite interesting and may drag many students and teachers to use this science website. Even though, this website are not attractive enough for the users to gain some knowledge, it may still bring some beneficial for teachers and students.