ABSTRACT
I first heard about “moments of science” when my partner, David, and I were sharing our daily teaching stories in early September. I would often rely on his knowledge as a high school science teacher (and former biotechnology laboratory researcher) when I was trying to distill the most important teaching points in a science lesson. While I knew that science was compelling for my seven- and eight-year-old second graders, I was still trying to figure out how to make teaching science compelling for me. On that notable day in September, David was telling me about a student in his class who had earned a “moment of science” for discovering a mistake in the physics textbook.
