EDUC 2109 Teaching About the Natural World
This course is designed to increase confidence, enthusiasm and knowledge for teaching elementary science. Science can be an essential part of an elementary classroom not only to achieve key science learning goals, but also as a means to engage and motivate students as well as support literacy and mathematics learning. An overarching focus of the course is the idea that doing science entails individuals using wide-ranging ways of acting, reasoning, and communicating with others to figure outphenomena. Science is not about memorizing facts; rather, it is about constructing, debating, and revising multiple explanations and models about the natural world. With this in mind, this course is designed to offer you numerous opportunities to read literature that illustrates this vision and to engage and reflect upon this type of science teaching and learning.
Course overview
- Department
- Teacher Education and Curriculum and Instruction
- School
- Lynch
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Every Fall, Every Spring
Catalog details
- Corequisites
- EDUC2105
Requirements fulfilled
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.65 / 5 · Excellent
- Instructor rating
- 4.81 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 8
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Maria Moreno Vera | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 1–3 hrs/week | 6 of 8 |
| Fall 2025 | Katherine Mcneill | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 1–3 hrs/week | 9 of 10 |
| Fall 2024 | Katherine Mcneill | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 1–3 hrs/week | 13 of 13 |
| Spring 2024 | Sarah Fogelman | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 1–3 hrs/week | 11 of 12 |
| Fall 2023 | Katherine Mcneill | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 13 of 14 |
| Spring 2023 | Samuel Lee | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 1–3 hrs/week | 16 of 19 |
| Fall 2022 | Katherine Mcneill | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 1–3 hrs/week | 17 of 18 |
| Fall 2021 | Katherine Mcneill | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 1–3 hrs/week | 4 of 5 |
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Instructors
Sections
- Section 01
- Section 01