This course presents future teachers and inservice teachers with approaches and strategies for using children s and adolescents literature as a basis for the reading program and as a framework throughout the curriculum. The course uses the constructivist model to accomplish its objectives. Representative samples of elementary science curricula. Emphasis is on the inquiry approach to teaching science, which actively involves children with science materials. The implications of psychological studies are included in relation to the elementary science curricula.
Teachers engage in actual laboratory activities appropriate for elementary science.