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
- LSOE
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Every Fall,Every Spring
Catalog details
- Corequisites
- EDUC2105
Requirements fulfilled
No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.
Official evaluation summary
Data freshness
Instructors
- Katherine Mcneill
- Samuel Lee
- Sarah Fogelman
- Maria Moreno Vera
Sections
- Section 01