Be detailed and include labels. If, for example, you are drawing a plant cell, identify the chloroplast, nucleus, mitochondria, ER, vacuole, Golgi body, cell wall, etc. Make sure there is information to match the visual. Be colorful. Creativity has been shown to help students actively engage in the learning process. Learn with 3D models.
Use interactive 3D models of topics like molecules, organs, or the solar system. Ask your teacher if any models are available to the class. If not, create your own. There are a number of tutorials and DIY instructions for scientific models online. Use your notes and drawings to help you take the models apart, identify their components, and put them back together.
Test yourself by seeing if you can name and describe individual components of the model. Try throwing all the pieces into a bag, pulling one out at a time, and listing all the information you know about that piece.
Use mnemonic devices. Make memorizing facts easier with little memory tricks, a rhyme, or an acronym. These are meant to help you remember confusing concepts, difficult terms, and hard-to-remember facts. Be as creative and as funny as you want as long as the facts can be easily remembered. Find real-world examples.
Science becomes more meaningful when you understand how it impacts your daily life and the larger world around you. Tie basic experiments back into real-world examples. If, for example, you do a demonstration showing oil is lighter than water, pair it with a discussion of oil spills and what sort of impact floating oil could have on the environment. Engage yourself in your surroundings by identifying hazards in local environments.
Use rising sea levels or extreme storms to help learn about earth science and climate change. If you are in an earthquake-prone area, use that to study plate tectonics.
Taste test more acidic and more alkaline foods to see how chemistry impacts what you eat. Method 2. Start early. Some research suggests that children already start to form negative opinions about science by kindergarten. Supplement TV time with science programming. Remember, it is okay to be wrong.
Instead of simply telling yourself that you are wrong, think through the process and guide yourself to new conclusions using new information. You may not need to understand nuclear fusion for a middle school astronomy report. You will have science questions that you cannot answer on your own. That is alright. Read through your class materials and textbooks thoroughly to gather the information already available to you.
Ask to meet with your teacher outside of class to help explain the concept. Learn about scientists. Get inspiration from biographies about famous scientists. Learn about what these scientists' lives were like and what they accomplished that brought good things to the world.
You can find these in bookstores or online. There are a number of online videos dedicated to celebrating great scientists. Watch them before or after you read so you can see why that person still matters today. Method 3. Visit museums.
They focus on people who do well in computer studies. They know exactly what a bronze medal is, » says Gabriel. One common trait seen in many medalists is their willingness to help the younger students who are new to Olympiad tournaments. Ricardo Anido says that he usually invites prize-winning students to help prepare the questions for the tests, and they are always ready and willing. In the end, they were the ones who were thanking me, » Anido says.
Barbosa participated in several editions of the tournament, taking two silver medals—in Vietnam in and in Spain in —along with a bronze medal in Slovenia in I enjoy creating difficult problems and find it even more rewarding when I see a student who comes up with a solution that is better than mine. I chose computer engineering to broaden my horizons, but I discovered that I really like teaching, » he says.
However, the organizers of the Brazilian Olympiad have one major concern: the medalists tend to leave Brazil once they graduate. We need to figure out how to keep them in Brazil. They need incentives to stay. Ricardo Anido believes that medalists should be permitted to enter Brazilian universities without being required to take the college entrance exam.
Gustavo Haddad Braga, an year-old student, has one of the largest collections of medals in the country. He holds 50 Brazilian and seven international medals, including a gold medal from the International Physics Olympiad held in Thailand in He recently left Brazil to study at the undergraduate level at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was very much looking forward to studying abroad even before his performance in the Olympiad in secondary school. I thought to myself: MIT must be a great place, » he recalls. He still does not know if he will study computers or electrical engineering at MIT; he will not decide until after his first year there. However, he plans to return to Brazil after graduating. With entrepreneurial enthusiasm, he and some classmates helped establish three promising business ventures: one is a site with tips on how to apply to universities in the United States; another is a service that connects students with strong skills to companies interested in sponsoring them to study abroad—in exchange, these companies take on the students as interns once they complete their studies; and the third is an application that discreetly connects Facebook friends who are seeking a boyfriend or girlfriend.
The personal experiences of a medalist in a science Olympiad are unusual. I love that science forces us to decenter ourselves, especially as we grapple with the myriad impacts of human civilization on our environment, health, and the biodiversity of this planet.
Sophie: I love questions. I love hearing about creative ways that people answer questions. I love the process of learning what other people have done to answer other questions and connecting these sometimes-disparate pieces of knowledge together to weave an answer to my own questions. I love the excitement of teasing out a little bit more knowledge about our world today or our world before or our world some day.
I love being surprised by the strange beauty and incredible complexity and unexpected twists and interdependent relationships that evolution has unwittingly gifted the living world with.
Linus: What I love about science is the cycle struggle? As we find and share new bits of information, we use them to update and sometimes shatter our understanding of the world.
These new understandings inevitably raise new questions and areas to explore. This process excites me and has for better or for worse leaked into most parts of my life. My hope is that as we continue to do science, our questions, methods, and answers become reflections of ourselves and our communities. Andy: For me, science can be a source of profound spirituality. I love science for the sense of wonder and humility it provides me. I find grace in understanding how the trees breathe carbon dioxide to provide oxygen for our survival.
And I feel humble with the recognition that our planet is one of many in the universe. I believe science, by positioning our existence within a greater system beyond ourselves, serves to deepen our humanity and compassion for each other.
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