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Teaching High School Physical Science helps educators learn inquiry-based approaches to teaching standards-based science topics, including atomic and molecular structure, chemical reactions, motions and forces, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Participants use multimedia to explore novel learning environments and methodologies that foster student interest, involve them in the research process, advance their critical thinking skills, and develop their conceptual understanding.
Course Objectives
- Draw meaningful parallels between scientific inquiry and classroom inquiry
- Identify the benefits of an inquiry-based approach to science education
- Explore a range of teaching methodologies and strategies for topics that teachers and students find most challenging, including atomic structure, chemical reactions, motions and forces, and the electromagnetic spectrum
- Reflect on the theory of lesson design, and incorporate the use of multimedia in lessons
- Introduce teachers to a media-rich learning environment they can use with their students
- Provide models, including videos of exemplary practice, to illustrate ways to teach beyond the textbook
Course Syllabus
Session 1:
Processes of Science
Participants examine how scientists investigate the natural world, and how teachers and students can apply scientific inquiry to better understand physical science.
Session 2:
Inquiry in Science and Learning
Participants explore how the nature and sequence of learning opportunities improve students' understanding of physical science.
Session 3:
Prior Knowledge
Participants examine how learners' prior experiences and knowledge affect their ability to add new information to their knowledge base.
Session 4:
Assessment on Chemical Reactions
Participants explore how specific teaching strategies help them assess what students understand about chemical reactions.
Session 5:
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Participants examine how combining content knowledge and knowledge of pedagogy can lead to more effective teaching of motions and forces.
Session 6:
Making Energy Understandable
Participants explore how they can modify and shape their teaching strategies to meet the needs of individual learners.
Session 7:
Improving a Lesson
Participants identify how they can apply principles of effective curriculum design to improve their own lesson planning.
Session 8:
The Environment for Learning
Participants explore how their classroom environments can foster inquiry-based learning.
Additional Course Information
- 45 contact hours
- A series of course modules on these topics and
teaching strategies is also available:
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