If you must miss a class you are required to interview two classmates and to write a paper describing what your classmates learning experiences were and how you intend to gain those learning experiences. The paper- is due the next class period. If you miss two unexcused classes, your grade will automatically be lowered a letter grade. Papers will be evaluated for completeness and quality. Some assignments will be individual work and some group work.
Science is a wonderful subject.
History, art, math, language arts, and physical education can all be integrated with science. No matter what you teach, it must be relevant and meaningful for our students. This course is designed to acquaint prospective elementary teachers with the teaching of science. This will be accomplished by learning to use components of lessons that are known to comprise good lessons and to devise lessons, which will be taught to each other in class. To assist in planning the lessons, we will be looking at articles from many different educational journals, elementary science materials located in the Learning Resource Center and, of course, your own ideas.