Instructional Strategies for Science and Technology

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce the teaching techniques and strategies used by science educators to make science teaching, meaningful, motivating, and plausible for PK-4 students. In addition, the most common curriculum units and supplements are introduced, explored, and examined for their appropriateness in the early childhood environment and the relationship to the PDE science standards. Emphasis is placed on how to collect and learn about scientific concepts in order to develop the skills necessary to teach coherent centers and/or lessons and choose instructional techniques that will most effectively help children learn. Lastly, confidence in teaching science is established as participants devise, employ, and assess science lessons presented to peers and young children. Students with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment limited to students with the ACCEPTANCE - TEACHER CANDIDACY attribute.