Teaching of Science 🧪

🎯 Objectives

• Understand the nature and significance of Science. 🌟
• Identify objectives of teaching Science at different school stages. 📚
• Develop scientific attitude among students. 🔬
• Understand and apply various principles of curriculum construction. 📝
• Identify and organize various learning experiences in teaching of Science. 🎓
• Select and use different types of teaching aids in Science. 🎨

📘 Syllabus

SECTION – A

1. Nature and Significance of Science: Nature, scope, importance, and value of science; Science as an integrated area of study; Science and modern Indian society: Relationship of science and society. 🌍
2. Aims and objectives of teaching science in elementary and secondary school; Bloom‟s Taxonomy of educational objectives, Pedagogical analysis: Meaning and need, guidelines for conducting pedagogical analysis. 📝
3. Science curriculum: Meaning, Principles, Various approaches to science curriculum construction, developing learner-centered curriculum in science. 📚

SECTION – B

1. Science textbook: Meaning, importance, and qualities, a critical analysis of science textbook of state board and NCERT. 📖
2. Learning Experiences and Teaching aids: Concept, Edgar Dale’s Cone of Learning Experiences, Importance, Use, and Classification of Teaching Aids, Integrating ICT in science teaching. 🎓

Activities (Any one of the following)

• Writing instructional objectives in behavioral form for any five topics. 📝
• Developing a low-cost teaching aid in Science. 🛠️
• Pedagogical analysis of any one topic. 🔍

📚 Books Recommended

1. Cutting, Roger and Kelly, Orla (2014). Creative Teaching in Primary Science. Sage. 📘
2. Dunne, Mick (2014). Primary Science (2nd ed.). Sage. 📗
3. Their, H.D. (1970). Teaching Elementary School Science: A Laboratory Approach. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers. 📕
4. Vaidya, N. (1989).The Impact Science Teaching. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing Company. 📙
5. Mohan, R. (2002). Innovative Science Teaching. Delhi: Prentice-Hall. 📓
6. Collete, Alfred T. and Eugene L. Chiappeta (1994), Science Instruction in the Middle & Secondary Schools, Macmillan, New York. 📒
7. Jerry Wellington (1996), Teaching Science in Secondary Classes, Routledge, USA. 📔
8. UNESCO (1966) Source Book for Science Teaching; UNESCO: Paris. 📚

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