21st Century Skills
Building 21st century skills into science lessons will help students be more career ready. Using inquiry to promote critical thinking and problem solving skills is one way to add 21st century skills into the science classroom. Students need to be able to think for themselves and be able to collaboratively solve real world problems. This means teaching our kids that Google is not the only place to find solutions. Solutions need to be created not found on the internet, and sometimes students do not realize their ability to create solutions until they are forced to brainstorm ideas with their peers and work through the engineering design process.
