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Ayotola Oronti's picture

Metaphors / Similes for science

For me science is like water. Water is used everywhere, everytime by everybody. Water is useful in our everyday life existence. Without water there will be no life, not even for plants and animals too. In other words water is Life.

On the other hand science is also needed in every part of our lives. It can be seen rearing its head up every time everywhere and with everybody. I can safely say water is life, science is life and so science is water.

For my students science is like recess. During recess they get to play around and they believe it is a time to be free in expressing themselves. At the same time they have several options of playing around and it is never a boring time. In the science class, students feel like they have a chance to take a break from learning, play around with "toys" and have fun with their friends. 

Since they think recess is life for them and I believe science is life, then I can merge these two together to give students fun in science so that their concept of life can blend with my own concept of life.

Tola

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