Currently teaching 10th graders about The Big Bang and related concepts. Best-practice advice.

I teach a skills based learning class, and currently, we are learning about the Big Bang.

I LOVE SCIENCE, and want to answer all my students’ questions!

But I find that a lot of times my answers are too much. The students do not have the appropriate background for my answers to make sense.

I really hate to give them the answer of “I encourage you to look it up!,” or something else like that, because I don’t have the time (or probably ability) to explain some of their questions.

A lot of times their ideas and questions are so phenomenally ‘our there,’ that I spend a lot of time trying to help them understand their questions.

I have been resorting to the answer of “write that question down and see if you can answer it, yourself, at the end of the unit!”

I am wondering what some other teacher think best-practice would be...do I:
1) spend a lot of time and energy answering questions? 2) let ignorant (non-derogatory) questions propagate?

Submitted October 26, 2017 at 07:58PM by ghpkhg http://ift.tt/2yUcClg