Chapter 9 Reflection (hb)

I always thought that Science and Math went hand in hand with each other. Not like how reading and writing go hand in hand, but more like Social Studies and Language Arts. I have never heard it put so eloquently as to say that “mathematics is called the language of Science.” Everything the chapter talks about from the concepts of measuring to the graphing, I perceived as common sense and knowledge. However, delving into the chapter, I realized that it’s not as common sense as I thought it had been. And even more so, the ideas of integrating science and language arts were something that is eye opening for me. “The pursuit of meaning” is a phrase that makes perfect sense to me, being am English junkie and loving language arts. I have never thought that the concept of predicting crossed over from language arts to science and vice versa. It makes perfect sense and when I see it all broken down and written out like this, it makes me go, “Ahhhh…. Of course it does!” I still have a tough time figuring in social studies with science. I know that science is crucial in learning about other cultures and the past, but in regards to the subject inside of a classroom, I feel that a lot of the idea presented would fall more under language arts. Although I did mention that social studies and language arts team up well, so it makes more sense to me that a complete integration is the key. With this being the case, I feel that this chapter really did a great job of burning the idea of integration into us so that we don’t have to think about it too much to do it.