Ups and downs Careers home Background Career planning State agencies Organizations Certification help Site map Teaching science can be one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs in the world. For many teachers, the joy they get from seeing a child learn a difficult concept or from inspiring student to love and pursue science make the job more worthwhile than any other career imaginable. Teachers introduce new ideas to students, help them explore the world and carry out fascinating investigations, work with animals, grow plants, and take students on field trips to local museums, planetariums, laboratories, or aquatic environments.
Teachers can show students how to design their own experiments to answer questions.
They might perform a demonstration that at first glance looks like magic and then invite their students to play science games to build on what they are learning. Through videos to CD-ROMs and the Internet, you will travel with y our students to rainforests and ocean floors, inside the human body, and under the lens of a microscope. They can use computers to help students carry out experiments that cannot be done in the classroom because of lack of time, space, or equipment. Or teachers can hook their student into computer networks to exchange information with other students around the world. Along with the many joys, however, science teachers also face problems.