My Experience with Science

My science experience started at the elementary cycle like most students, at which I hated the Science class due to the mean teacher giving us the subject. This hatefulness individual created a huge gap between me and the Science world. In this young period, the method used by the teacher was mainly in the direct manner where everything written on the board is to be written on my copybook and then back on the exam if I wish to pass, and any other opinion would fail me. There were no chances for any critical thinking about the interesting subject so called "the earth and life science".

 However as I moved on to the intermediate cycle, a wonderful teacher gave me the biology subject making it look like "love from the first sight". Here I understood biology as the natural science concerned with studying life and living organisms; in other words everything around us, including their structures, function, and growth. Biology has different well-known sub-disciplines unified into the five so-called axioms of modern Biology: the amazing cell that is the basic and simplest unit of life, genes are the basic unit of heredity, new species and inherited traits are the product of evolution, an organism regulates its internal environment to maintain a stable and constant condition, and living organisms consume and transform energy in order to survive. For me, Biology is the core-center of the world controlling and determining what we are and how we are different. It can explain anything. So in the intermediate cycle, the teacher was more caring than the awful mean teacher in the elementary school. Thus I was able to love the subject and be able to learn and understand. It was more concerned with building knowledge instead of copy-pasting the elementary teachers' opinion. The strategies used were mainly the lecture-discussion method through the deductive way and the information processing technique, in addition to application where we had the chance to do experiments with little guidance. I can say proudly that from this stage in my life I choose to enter the college to study something related to biology. So the teacher gave us the example in order to know the rules or concepts by student-student and student-teacher discussion. The teacher concentrated on our understanding more than grades.

In the secondary cycle, my love got bigger and deeper with the more interesting topics in life science. My secondary teacher used the same techniques as in the intermediate cycle with her ultimate for us is to get good understanding about life science and be able to use the learned information in our real world life. Also at this stage we did lots of research to gather information. Therefore a chance for my own construction mechanism is granted, making Science become interesting location for my thoughts and dreams. 

 When I graduated from high-school with a high grade in Biology, I exactly knew where I'm going. Some usually are lost in this transition state, but my love desire took me to the right place. At the university, unfortunately the style of teaching changed completely from a discussion area to a lecturing zone only. At this stage, the lecturing method wasn’t a problem for me because with almost every course there was additional credit for the lab that represents excellent application of the course theories or concepts. Thus the lab was able to satisfy my needs in discovering the information by myself therefore constructing my own thoughts and ideas upon my effort.