Inquiry Physical Science for Teachers ((3 credit hours))

Catalog description

Preservice elementary and middle grades teachers will learn the essential science concepts established by the Kentucky core content for science, which includes topics in areas of properties of matter, force and motion, heat, light and optics, electricity and magnetism, and sound. Students will learn these science concepts through a process of direct observation of physical phenomena, making sense of those observations through inference and reason and in collaboration with fellow students and instructors. Not acceptable for majors or minors in the physical sciences. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours). Laboratory: 1 credit (30 contact hours).