We as teachers need to know how to utilize the resources available and how to develop instructional strategies that promote meaningful learning in the classroom. Students from their respective cooperative learning groups using their electronic journals in a science classroom. Science education reform projects such as the Scope, Sequence And Coordination by NSTA, the Science Benchmarks by Project 2061 and the National Science Education Standards promote more applications to the real world, more hands-on activities, inquiry learning, higher order thinking skills and quality assessment. Research is showing us that students learn best when they are actively investigating and applying information. Science curriculum reform is providing us with a direction to develop curriculum programs that will increase science literacy for our students.
Science literacy is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes.
My science education research interest is in the implementation of inquiry teaching and learning in the science classroom. An Inquiry Based Science Program For Their Students. Science educators need to adapt and design curricula which enable students to learn such skills as observing, inferring, and experimenting. Inquiry is central to science learning and science teachers must engage students in inquiry so that they ask questions, describe objects and events, test their ideas with what is known, and communicate what they are learning. How it Affects Traditional Academic Achievement Multimedia Instruction and Its Impact on Secondary Science Students Science Education Research Interests Supplementing educational software instruction with an interactive electronic journal.