Communication: Creative Ideas for Gathering and Sharing Information

As a result of an increased emphasis on literacy learning, teachers are forced into making difficult choices about how to allocate and balance time for other content areas. As a result, science is often neglected as part of the daily curriculum. If this trend continues, the result will be a generation of learners lacking the ability to perform basic science processes. This article recommends that teachers integrate science learning into other areas of the curriculum, specifically literacy. Six creative ideas are provided as a springboard for teachers to implement and then devise their own innovative ways of communicating scientific findings.