Sadly, I haven’t observed much science when I worked as a SPED assistant. Science was usually linked to ELA block, and I think I can remember just three hands-on activities that students performed. The first one was observing butterflies metamorphosis, another was planting seeds, and the last one was building towers using construction paper, spaghetti and tape. In other cases, it was a teacher who conducted the experiment, and children just observed and wrote notes. I noticed that students were very engaged and excited when they were allowed to actually use their hands and try new things, so I will definitely use this knowledge in the future when teaching science.
