Description
This course is designed to provide childhood teachers with a holistic, interdisciplinary understanding of science content and pedagogy. The focus of science education will be ways in which teachers can foster opportunities for all children to engage in science as inquiry. Incorporated are best practices for helping childrren to explore and construct science knowledge, ways to arrange science classrooms for learning, skills necessary to plan for active investigations and how to integrate the New York State Learning Standards. Teachers will relate science to contemporary events and real-life applications, while learning how to plan for performance assessment. Science will be connected to other subject areas as well as integrated with technology and combined with safety. The focus of the course is how to offer science experiences for all students, including students with exceptionalities, gifted students, culturally diverse students, native English speakers and English language learne